here, some excerpts from a recent news report:
001. at newsweek.com, Jeffery Martin writes in "Canadian Town Suffering Doctor Shortage Funds Naturopathic Clinic, Inflaming Critics of Alternative Medicine" (2019-11-06)
"the Canadian city of Cornwall in Ontario [...] approved $45,000 in public funding for a naturopathic clinic according to the National Post [...] 'if this is really to address a physician shortage, then it is just completely inappropriate and completely ridiculous,' said Michelle Cohen, an Ontario family physician [...] 'they're not doing the same kind of screening tests we do [...] they don't do preventative medicine the way we do and they don't manage
the same kinds of complex and chronic medical issues family doctors do.
There is really no comparison' [...other] critics of naturopathy say they have no right to refer to
themselves as doctors since they are not medically trained. Former
naturopath Britt Hermes said the training naturopaths receive is far
different than the kind students in medical school receive [...she states] 'they take classes with the same names as medical school courses [...] but pseudoscience and nonsensical information is
integrated into every course' [...]";
hear, hear. It will be interesting to read the public-facing language this new clinic will use. Will it be the usual nonsense and manipulative opacity?
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