A Letter to the CT Post Critical of Their Not-Critical Naturopathy Coverage

here, a CT Post letter critical of their quite noncritical coverage of naturopathy:

 001. at ctpost.com, an A. Tiktinsky writes in "Calls Coverage of Naturopathy Degree ‘Irresponsible’: Letter" (2019-04-09):

"I find this paper irresponsible in its recent coverage of the closure of the University of Bridgeport naturopathy program [...] the Post has glossed over large problems inherent to naturopathy itself [...] there has been broad medical consensus on the unscientific nature of naturopathy for at least a decade [...]";

I agree.  Except, of course, as I've pointed out, the CT Post has never been critical of naturopathy in all the years as far as I could find. 

"naturopathy is a form of alternative medicine with a central emphasis on 'the healing power of nature' [...] many of its most common practices range from pseudoscience to outright consumer fraud. The University of Bridgeport curriculum includes, for example, three semesters of homeopathy — a sham that is overwhelmingly unsupported by clinical evidence [...]";

I agree.  HPN of course is coded vitalism.  Homeopathy, pseudoscience, fraud.  One thing I'd argue is that clinical evidence can be quite weak as a standard, and scientific evidence is a larger more rigorous category.  Here, though, I get the gist that rigorous studies show no effect greater than placebo.  I'd actually argue that pretending to objectively cover naturopathy over the years has been the CT Post's sham.

"naturopathy can come at senseless human cost, and its practices have been condemned by the American Medical Association as 'unethical' and 'blatantly unsafe' [...causing] unnecessary suffering or preventable death [...and] waste[d] time and money on bogus health care [...] the consequences can be lethal [...] it is wrong to promise a practical education in an fraudulent discipline [...]";

hear, hear.

"if evidence emerges that the university has been negligent or misleading on this point in recruitment, its students may deserve reimbursement for tuition and related debts [...]";

true that.  I've said for years that embedding naturopathy at UB within a "division of health sciences" places UB among the pantheon of modern heath education robbers.  Not only did UB hurt people with false categorizations since their ND program started in 1997, they diverted them from incomes which weren't fraudulent.  The harms are massive.  And never did the CT Post report on these criticisms, on their front page especially, where they'd instead basically elevate naturopathy through rose colored glasses.