Naturopathy Self-Administration: ND Smith of a Textbook of a School of Its Consortia of Its Exam Regulator

here, musings on doctoral-level self-policed nonsense pseudoscience:

001. on the AANMC Facebook feed, this 2018-09-21, there's the post

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which states:

"congrats to Fraser Smith, MATD, ND, who will be joining the board of directors of the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners NABNE! Dr. Smith is currently the president of the AANMC and Assistant Dean for Naturopathic Medicine in National University of Health Sciences' College of Professional Studies [...]";

so, that's ND --> NUHS --> AANMC --> NABNE. Very matryoshka!

002. and at AANMC, there's the linked-to "NABNE Welcomes Fraser Smith" [2018 archived] which tells us:

"he has co-authored or written two naturopathic textbooks, as well as four books for the public, and numerous journal articles [...]";

now, I'd podcasted about his main naturopathy textbook in Episode 014.

003. NABNE's crazy 'science subset homeopathy' claim can be found in their "NPLEX Examination Overview" [2018 archived] which states:

"the Part II Core Clinical Science Examination  [...includes] homeopathy";

that's quite a litmus test.  Therein, science is meaningless in Naturopathyland because homeopathy is utterly bunkum.  Yet, in his 2008 textbook, Smith has no problem posing homeopathy in the glossary this way: "homeopathy (homoeopathy): a medical system based upon the law of similars, which states that a small dose of an agent that can produce a certain set of symptoms in a healthy person can be used to cure the same set of symptoms in a sick person. Related concepts include the homeopathic medicine, the proving of medicines, and the dynamis or vital force. Clinical application includes the art of case taking and case analysis." But to be medical you actually have to have an established benefit beyond placebo and kind, your theoretical basis has to actually be true, and such vitalism is science-ejected.  So, with self subset self subset self in terms of naturopathy administration, the big question is 'who watches the watchers?'