Alaska Naturopaths Soon to Be Unleashed?

here, likely you'll see NDs in Alaska with prescriptive authority, me-thinks, based upon the lack of committed resistance:

001. @ktoo.org, Jacob Resneck reports in "Bill Would Lift Restrictions on Alaska’s Naturopaths" [mp3; 2018 archived mp3] (2018-03-27):
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"[from the text] Alaska’s naturopathic doctors seek to expand their authority to treat patients [...] more than a dozen states grant licensed naturopaths limited rights to prescribe medication, which allows them to treat many ailments normally handled by medical doctors. Alaska isn’t one of those states [...]";

not a good idea to give real medication privileges to people who claim as science: magic beans, unicorn tears, and flying carpets.

"despite a legal setback and mixed testimony from the medical profession [...]";

I find the medical community half-comatosed, sometimes.

"naturopathy [...] critics say it mixes pseudoscience and folk remedies with evidence-based medicine and is banned in two states [...]";

true that.  Naturopathy blends.  And many in the medical community have no problem with that, in spite of medical ethical strictures many seem to have grown bored with.

"supporters counter that it makes use of traditional healing but doesn’t discount modern science [...]";

oh, I'd very much argue that naturopathy actually is actively undermining science as a rigorous epistemic enterprise.  When they claim science subset naturopathy subset homeopathy and kind, what exactly isn't 'a discounting of modern science' therein?  It's antiscience, truly.

"a licensed naturopath in Alaska [...] the Alaska Association of Naturopathic Physicians [...] President Abby Laing [...]";

see 002.

"[from the mp3] critics say it mixes pseudoscience and folk remedies with evidence-based medicine [...]";

nice to HEAR it.

002. the Alaska ANP and its president's practice pages:

002.a. the Alaska ANP tells us in "Naturopathic Medicine The Basics":

"the training consists of comprehensive study of the conventional medical sciences [...]  a commitment to state-of-the-art scientific research [...]"; 

so, a science claim.  But it's not categorically true.

 "naturopathic doctors are guided by six principles [...#2] the healing power of nature [...] the concept of vis medicatrix naturae -- 'the healing power of nature'. This concept has long been at the core of medicine in many cultures around the world and remains one of the central themes of naturopathic philosophy today [...]";

why be transparent.  That's coded vitalism.  What about informed consent and truth in advertising?

 "naturopathic doctors use a variety of natural and non-invasive therapies, including clinical nutrition, homeopathy, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy, physical medicine, and counseling [...]";

and there's the explicit pseudoscience, because they said science and there's homeopathy.  But, lets make it so naturopaths are legally protected in this ruse!

 002.b. ND Laing, an NCNM graduate, tells us at her practice pages:

nothing about naturopathy, in terms of its specific content by way of its principles. Wow: SUCH manipulative opacity.  But, you can look at my previous posts on NCNM / NUNM to see that essentially naturopathy is a pseudoscience, at its core.  It's hidden well, in plain sight.