naturocrit: The Euro. - S. African - Australian Chiropractic Education Collaboration: Vitalism 'Unsupported by Evidence, Inappropriate, Unnecessary'

Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Euro. - S. African - Australian Chiropractic Education Collaboration: Vitalism 'Unsupported by Evidence, Inappropriate, Unnecessary'

here, a recent position statement on the pseudoscience of vitalism:

001. we're told at the University of Johannesburg, which has a "Department of Chiropractic", in "Clinical and Professional Chiropractic Education: a Position Statement" (2015) [2017 archived]:

"the teaching of vertebral subluxation complex as a vitalistic construct that claims that it is the cause of disease is unsupported by evidence. Its inclusion in a modern chiropractic curriculum in anything other than an historical context is therefore inappropriate and unnecessary [...] specifically the form of vitalism [...] proclaims ‘if the specific vertebral subluxation is correctly adjusted, interference is released, pressure is eliminated, carrying capacity restored to normal, tissue cell is re-established, and life and health begin to regrow back to normal. All this is directed, controlled, and performed by innate intelligence' [...]";

an interesting find.

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Episode 001: "How I Heard of Naturopathy, Attending Naturopathy School, and Deciding to Leave Before Graduating" (Part 1); "ND Sensenig's 'The Power of Vitalism'" (Part 2).
Episode 002: "The Naturalness Fallacy" (in One Part).
Episode 003: "The Quite False 1998 Claim of the AANP Alliance Consortia That Naturopathy is 'Science-Based and Not a Belief System' (Part 1); "The Naturopathy Chapter fro'm Complementary and Alternative Medicine' (ISBN 0443065764) by NDs Pizzorno and Snider" (Part 2).
Episode 004: "The NYANP: Their 2014 Bill Fabrication and Content History" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5).
Episode 005: "The 'Science-Based' Science-Exterior Canadian-Based Naturopathic Interior" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5a Part 5b).
Episode 006: "The Epistemic Conflation of a School of Thought Claiming to be Scientific" (Part 1, Part 2).
Episode 007: "Naturopathy's Supposed Value" (in One Part).
Episode 008: "The 2015 Iowa NPA Naturopathy Bill" (Part 1, Part 2).
Episode 009: “The Connecticut Naturopathic Physicians Association [CNPA] and A Supposed Modernization of Connecticut Naturopathy" (Part 1, Part 2a, Part 2b).
Episode 010: “Integrative-Holistic-Quackademic Woo, Information Asymmetry, Immanence and Fiduciary Duty: Minnesota '.edu' -Style” (Part 1, Part 2a, Part 2b).
Episode 011: “Naturopathillogical Microcosms: NDs Zampieron and Brady” (Part 1, Part 2).
Episode 012: "Preponderant and Universal Medical Ethical Codes and North American Naturopathy's Transgressions" (Part 1a, Part 1b, Part 2a, Part 2b, Part 3a1, Part 3a2, Part 3b1, Part 3b2, Part 4a, Part 4b, Part 4c1, Part 4c2).
Episode 013: "The State of Connecticut and Its Naturopathy: 'Deception, Fraud, Double-Dealing, Subterfuge, and Trickery'" (Part 1, Part 2a, Part 2b).