001. in "The Journey of a 'Doctor' Who Joined the Cult of Alternative Medicine and Then Broke Out of It", at qz.com, as reported by Akshat Rathi (2017-09-30), we're told such things as:
"naturopathy [is] a belief system built on the concept that 'nature knows best' [...its] practitioners use a host of pseudoscientific techniques including energy healing and homeopathy that can be not only ineffective, but dangerous. Instead of thinking about the techniques as adjunct therapies to proven modern medicine, many naturopaths will reject the pharmaceuticals and other treatments that we know save lives [...] 'energy healing' [is] a belief system among naturopaths that says simple
touching can manipulate biological pathways. Like homeopathy, there are no known scientific principles that support energy healing [...] these ideas go completely against any established scientific principle; homeopathy has been shown to be at best a placebo [...] Kimball Atwood, an anesthesiologist and assistant professor at Tufts University, wrote in 2003 [...] 'their training [...] amounts to a small fraction of that of
medical doctors who practice primary care [...] an
examination of their literature, moreover, reveals that it is replete
with pseudoscientific, ineffective, unethical, and potentially dangerous
practices";
true that.
"for the past few years, after realizing she had been swindled in her
education, Hermes has waged a war on naturopathy [...]";
and that is the right thing to do: expose an unethical sectarian pseudoscience.
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