Skeptic.com Schwacks "Functional Medicine" as Pseudoscience

here, criticism of functional medicine:

001. MD Harriet Hall writes at skeptic.com in "Functional Medicine: Pseudoscientific Silliness" (2017-08-16):

"functional medicine was invented by a single individual: Jeffrey Bland. He’s not a medical doctor. He’s a Ph.D. who sells dietary supplements [...its] vague claims, testimonials, and case reports do not constitute credible scientific evidence. FM claims that their individualized patient-centered treatment plans are not amenable to clinical trials, but that’s nonsense. It would be a simple matter to randomize patients to two groups, treat one with conventional medicine and the other with FM, and compare the outcomes. To my knowledge, that has never been done. I think I know why [...] conventional medicine deals with real underlying causes; FM makes up hypothetical, speculative, or imaginary causes [...] the late Wally Sampson characterized FM as 'claims cloaked in the language of science, but with the distinguishing characteristics of sectarianism—pluralities of approaches to illness, absence of evidence or efficacy, a unifying concept of illness as a body out of sync with Nature (with the capital N), undecipherable babble and descriptive word salad.' Medical doctor and sciencebasedmedicine.org blogger David Gorski says they take 'making it up as you go along' to a whole new level, and that’s not a good thing in medicine"; 

hear, hear. 

002. meanwhile, there's naturopathy's association, literally, the AANP aka American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, promoting FM at naturopathic.org in "Are You a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor?" by way of AANP Board Member ND Daenell, who writes:

"I am not a certified functional medicine doctor – I am a naturopathic doctor. Functional medicine is only one of the many natural modalities where we have clinical expertise. When you combine that with our training in conventional care, and how they work safely and effectively together – we really are the best of both worlds [...]";

so, essentially, naturopathy subset nonsense as 'expertise in pseudoscience'.  NOT BEST.  After all, it's AANP who still to this day claims, quite falsely, that homeopathy is a "medicinal science".  NOT expertise.