Licensed Deception, Literally: The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts Statute Decreeing Naturos' Homeopathy and Kind Science

here, nonsense in a tuxedo, by way of the great state of Kansas, which has legislated 'science subset naturopathy subset homeopathy', which is INSANE:

001. at ksbha.org, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, we've got the page [e.g. use >site:ksbha.org naturopathic exam homeopathy<] "Naturopathic Doctor Licensure Act"  [2018 archived], which states:

"'naturopathic doctor' means a doctor of naturopathic medicine who is authorized and licensed pursuant to this act. 'Naturopathic medicine,' or 'naturopathy' means a system of health care practiced by naturopathic doctors for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human health conditions, injuries and diseases, that uses education, natural medicines and therapies to support and stimulate the individual's intrinsic self-healing processes, and includes prescribing, recommending or administering [...such no-things as] homeopathic preparations [...] 'homeopathic preparations' means substances and drugs prepared according to the official homeopathic pharmacopoeia recognized by the United States food and drug administration' [...] 'naturopathic acupuncture' means the insertion of fine metal needles through the skin at specific points on or near the surface of the body with or without the palpation of specific points on the body and with or without the application of electric current or heat to the needles or skin or both to treat human disease [...]";

so, there's coded vitalism and homeopathy, enunciated [homeo. and acup. is also here and here].  And quackupuncture, which is bound-up generally with naturopathy. 

"the board shall issue a license as a naturopathic doctor to an individual who prior to the effective date of this act graduated from a school of naturopathy that required four years of attendance and was at the time of such individual's graduation accredited or a candidate for accreditation by the board approved accrediting body, passed an examination approved by the board covering appropriate naturopathic subjects including basic and clinical sciences [...] each applicant for licensure under this act shall be examined by a written examination or examinations chosen by the board to test the applicant's knowledge of the basic and clinical sciences relating to naturopathy, and naturopathy theory and practice, including the applicant's professional skills and judgment in the utilization of naturopathic techniques and methods, and such other subjects as the board may deem useful to determine the applicant's fitness to practice naturopathy [...]";

so, the licensure comes from the examination which is prepared for by the schooling, which is all chosen by the board.  Now, the schools claim 'science subset naturopathy', like NUHS and UB, and within those programs is naturopathy's homeopathy and acupuncture.  And the exam, the NPLEX, claims science subset homeopathy on the Part Two.

001.b. now, the current Naturopathic Advisory Council has ND Kimble on it, whose practice is at peterkimble.holisticpresence.com, and his "Naturopathic Medicine" page codes naturopathy's vitalism just like the Kansas law.  He is an NCNM / NUNM graduate where you can find their "Naturopathic Principles of Healing" page, which DECODES that coded vitalism.

002. so, what we have here is:

a lack of transparency regarding naturopathy's science-ejected vitalistic essence, and the quite institutionalized falsehood of 'science subset nonscience' nonsense.  And that is quite deceptive, and quite business as usual for naturopathy.