SBM's MD Hall on the Textbook of Naturopathic Medicine: "A Travesty"

here, MD Harriet Hall of the blog Science-Based Medicine looks at the NDs' Pizzorno and Murray Textbook of Naturopathic Medicine 4th edition: 

001. at SBM, in "Naturopathy Textbook" (posted 2018-08-14), MD Hall writes a lot in a very well done post but here's a take-away:

"NDs believe in an imaginary vitalistic force that heals [...] vitalism has been refuted by empirical evidence and has been discarded by both scientists and philosophers – essentially by everyone except proponents of naturopathy and some other forms of alternative medicine. The Textbook asserts that vitalism is based on observable scientific phenomena. It asserts that homeostasis, entropy, and evolution require vitalistic rather than mechanistic explanations. This is simply not true; it demonstrates their poor understanding of science [...] it is hard for me to fathom how such a textbook could exist in the 21st century and how anyone could characterize it as scientific [...with its] bizarre, uneven potpourri of good science, bad science, pseudoscience, vitalism, philosophy, ancient history, superstition, gullibility, misrepresentations, metaphysics, religion, hearsay, opinion, and anecdotes [...] it is a travesty. If this is what NDs are taught, if this is what NDs believe, they are deluding themselves and doing their patients a disservice [...]";

hear, hear. I recently did a Naturocrit Podcast Episode 014 on the only other 'posed as textbook' naturopathy textbook, by ND Smith.