The Missouri State Medical Association Journal 2019 - Naturopathy 'Pseudoscientific, Implausible, Simplistic, Vitalistic, Quackery-Ridden, Unscientific'

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001. MD Miller writes in Missouri Medicine's "Buying ‘Organic’ to Get ‘Authenticity’? Or Safer and More Nutritious Food? Think Again. And Again" (2019):

"you need look no further than the office of your local 'naturopathic doctor' or the shops that sell 'natural' nostrums such as herbal supplements. Physician Stephen Barrett, MD, discussed naturopathy comprehensively [...] in 2013 on the Quackwatch website [...] 'naturopathy, sometimes referred to as ‘natural medicine,’ is a largely pseudoscientific approach said to ‘assist nature,’ ‘support the body’s own innate capacity to achieve optimal health,’ and ‘facilitate the body’s inherent healing mechanisms.’ Naturopaths assert that diseases are the body’s effort to purify itself, and that cures result from increasing the patient’s ‘vital force.’ They claim to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes by ridding it of waste products and ‘toxins.’ At first glance, this approach may appear sensible. However, a close look will show that naturopathy’s philosophy is simplistic and that its practices are riddled with quackery.'Dr. Barrett went on to describe the various discredited and often dangerous practices of naturopathy, the basis of which is unscientific and implausible mumbo jumbo"; 

[Miller H. I. (2019). Buying 'Organic' to Get 'Authenticity'? Or Safer and More Nutritious Food? Think Again. And Again. Missouri medicine, 116(1), 8-11]