Monday, December 24, 2018

A Road to Nowhere: AANMC Wants You to Travel Healthy via Homeopathic and Kind Falsehood

here, more of the same-as-it-ever-was: 

001. I recently received an email, "Traveling This Week?", from the AANMC.  In it there was a link to [see 002.]:

002. their apparently multiply authored web page "The Ultimate Naturopathic Travel Kit",  dated 2017-12-06 [2018 archived], which states:

"never leave home without these key items that will keep you healthy while you’re on the road [...] when you plan ahead and have the right naturopathic tools in your travel kit, traveling doesn’t have to result in illness [...] to stay healthy and fend off illnesses while traveling, let naturopathic medicine be your co-pilot [...] we asked several naturopathic experts [...to]  share the items that are always on the packing list for their holistic travel kit [...]"; 

so, there's the traveling healthy.  And a promise that what they're going to provide here is useful, as in a tool, and works, as in preventative or curative or therapeutic in some kind of way.  Also, see how they're OWNING the article's contents.  If naturopathic experts are your copilot, you are on a road to nowhere.  Plus, that market wrapping known as holistic: a meaningless veneer. 

"[so there's ND] Dr. Simona Ciobanu of NUHS [...]"; 

that's National University of Health Sciences, so that's a 'science subset naturopathy' claim.

"the best way to fend off illnesses while traveling is to carry a kit full of natural remedies and treatments. Here are the top items to include [...] homeopathic remedies [the largest section of their list]: 'homeopathy is one of the most powerful tools in naturopathic medicine because of its safe and gentle action on the body' [...] Dr. Vassighi says. Ciobanu also always travels with a homeopathic kit. Here are her top 10 remedies [and therein blah blah blah...]";

and they link to a 2006 "nonrandomized, observational study."  So, there's naturopathy owning homeopathy but why is it that something so powerful, with so much action, has such a meaningless study supporting it?  Because it doesn't survive rigor.  Inert dilutions that don't and can't do anything should not be called remedies.  A Road to Nowhere while traveling.  This is, by the way, the same AANMC that terms naturopathy subset homeopathy "science-based".

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