Michelle Simon ND PhD 2018 AANP Physician of the Year & AANP's IOM

here, a reminder from the INM, and my extensions and musings:

001. the AANP's Institute for Natural Medicine states this 2018-08-10 in "Naturopathic Convention Forges a Culture of Collaboration" [2018 archived] states:

"more than 600 naturopathic doctors (NDs) and ND students came together for the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) 2018 Convention and Exhibition last month in response to a call for collaboration among the various groups within the profession [...] the AANP Annual Convention is a platform for knowledge sharing [...]";

I think they do this meeting every year, so I don't know what "call" is being referred to.  It's an interesting bunch in terms of "the profession", in terms of its epistemic / knowledge nonsense... 

"Michelle Simon, ND, PhD won the 2018 Physician of the Year Award for her work revitalizing the Institute for Natural Medicine [IOM]which focuses on expanding public awareness about naturopathic medicine [...]";

so, IOM.  More on that below.

002. IOM claims:

002.a. so, there's a central web page for the IOM, which is naturemed.org for some reason.  There, you can find such things as:

002.b. naturopathy's science categorical claim, "FAQs" [2018 archived] which states:

"licensed NDs complete a rigorous, four-year, in residence, science-based, post-graduate medical education at an accredited naturopathic medical school [...] students are educated in the
biomedical sciences as well as the latest advances in science [...]"; 

interesting epistemic distinction.

002.c. naturopathy's essential vitalism, coded, in "What are the Six Principles of Naturopathic Medicine?" [2018 archived] which tells us:

"the six principles of naturopathic medicine (in English and Latin) are: [#1] the power of nature (vis medicatrix naturae): naturopathic doctors recognize a person’s innate ability to heal. They act to identify and remove obstacles to healing and recovery to facilitate this inherent self-healing process [...] the individual’s self-healing process [...] ";

and that's all they say.  With no results for "life force", or "vital force" it's obvious that they don't like transparency. But, you can go to ND Simon's alma mater, Bastyr, and get such explicitly stated [2018 archived].  That's an interesting word comparison: a presentation outside of and then from within the Rabbit Hole.

002.d. and then you can see, such as at the National Center for Science Education, as I'd said nonsense, that categorically and essentially vitalism is science-ejected:

there's a name for this kind of culture of collaboration concerning false labels...