here, a excerpt from a recent criticism of naturopathy school student loan debt and my comments / musings:
001. at delaware1059.com, Rob Sussman writes in "Opinion: Ridiculous Student Loan Debt is Entirely Optional" (2019-08-05):
"last month, CNBC wrote a blisteringly tone-deaf article about how more and more college students are borrowing sums well into the six-digits to go to school. The article profiled Elisha Bokman, a woman nearly $500,000 in debt thanks to her entirely useless degree in 'naturopathic medicine' from the almost entirely fake 'Bastyr University' school of quackery in Washington state. Surprise surprise, she can't find a job as a naturopathic 'doctor' hocking pseudoscientific nonsense to the gullible, and her financial situation caused her marriage to collapse. All of this is entirely her fault [...] if you decide to go further in your educational career, make sure it's in a field in which you can get some return on investment. What I'm saying is don't EVER study 'naturopathic medicine' at 'Bastyr University'. I can't believe I even have to write that [...]";
and that is QUITE the opinion. I agree with the uselessness, the fake, the quackery, the pseudoscientific nonsense. But I'd like to point out something that perhaps can introduce an amount of sympathy to those who are led down such a path: the AANP and their schools like Bastyr claim what is being studied is akin to mainstream medical school, science, and quite better in that 'long doctor visit with a hug at the end' way. Consumers, even education consumers, have the right not to be falsely induced into "science-based natural medicine that integrates body, mind, spirit and nature." What the naturopathy apparatus does is a very sophisticated grift.
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