Breakenridge on Alberta Naturopathy 2018: Shamefully Exploiting Flaky Snake Oil Pseudosciences

here, great criticism of naturopathy and my comments and expansions:

001. at calgaryherald.com, Rob Breakenridge writes in "Breakenridge: Naturopaths' Practices Must be Reviewed by the Provincial Government" (2018-05-29):

"it would be convenient, perhaps, to simply dismiss the story as merely the product of some flaky West Coast ideas about so-called natural or alternative medicine, but it represents a deeper problem with naturopathy itself: the reliance on the thoroughly discredited idea of homeopathy [...] the profession’s embrace of homeopathy [...]";

homoepathy is mandatory in the ND classroom and ND clinic education, in North America, by the way.  And it is falsely labed a clinical science on their North American licensure exam. In that sense, a naturopathy license is a license to engage in falsehood.

"if Alberta believes that naturopaths should be licensed and accredited as health professionals, then this matter needs to be addressed [...] the Alberta government should insist that naturopaths or any accredited health professional, for that matter shun homeopathy altogether [...]";

hear, hear. And ND licensed falsehood, such as 'science subset homeopathy and kind', is so easy to show.

"[additionally naturopaths'] CEASE therapy [...aka] Complete Elimination of Autism Spectrum Expression [...] it is snake oil of the most outrageous kind [...] is a toxic blend of the pseudoscience of homeopathy and the pseudoscience of the discredited belief that vaccines cause autism. [...]";

and CEASE is perfectly acceptable in the land of naturopathy...until OUTSIDE pressures bring their nonsense to light.

"B.C’s College of Naturopathic Physicians has confirmed that an investigation is underway, noting that their bylaws prohibit marketing or advertising that is false, inaccurate, or misleading [...]";

and that is ridiculous in this sense: it is the long-standing BC naturopathy document by Glenn Cassie "The Nature of Naturopathic Medicine" [2018 archived] that falsely states "naturopathic medicine is science based natural medicine [...] a science-based platform is at the heart of naturopathic medical care".  Yet, long-standing and unbothered. Beware of these monsters.