Quebec Naturopath Acquittal: Held to "Reasonably Prudent Naturopath" Standards

here, some news on a very long-running case against a Quebec naturopath:

001. at theglobeandmail.com, Sean Fine reports in "Supreme Court Clears Naturopath of Criminal Responsibility in Death of Patient" (2019-11-14):

"the Supreme Court of Canada has cleared a Montreal naturopath of criminal responsibility for the death of an 84-year-old man in a ruling that clarifies how criminal law applies in provinces where alternative-medicine practitioners are unregulated [...] the court acquitted Montreal naturopath Mitra Javanmardi of criminal negligence causing death and unlawful act manslaughter [...the ND] gave Roger Matern an injection of nutrients in 2008. Bacteria in the nutrient solution killed him. While the injection was illegal under Quebec’s law governing health-care professions, the charges were laid under the Criminal Code of Canada [...] Isabel Schurman, a member of Ms. Javanmardi’s legal team, called the 11-year saga a 'misuse' of the criminal law. 'This is an unfortunate example of our tendency to criminalize things that are not crimes,' she said in an interview. Evidence showed, she said, that there was no way Ms. Javanmardi or anyone else could have detected the bacteria in one of the vials that went into the solution [...] in Ms. Javanmardi’s case, the court elaborated on that ruling, saying the activity in question (the injection) matters, and so the standard was that of 'the reasonably prudent naturopath' [...]";

wow, not general knowledge, NATUROPATHIC knowledge. Ok.  Let's think about the elephant in the room: injections don't seem that NATURAL.  And naturopathy is an irrational sectarian pseudoscience.

"Ms. Javanmardi, a science graduate from McGill University, had extensive training and experience. She has a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Ore. [...] Anil Kapoor, who represented the Criminal Lawyers Association, said the ruling could also be applied when police officers are charged with criminal negligence causing death in cases involving substance abusers, as occurred in two recent cases in Ontario and Nova Scotia. A key consideration would be whether officers took all the steps that their training tells them they should take in the circumstances [...]";

so wow.  So much sympathy.  And that invocation of science. Yet, of course, if you go to NUNM's web pages [formerly NCNM] you'll find patent pseudoscience. So, yeah.  It would be nice to hear in reporting that naturopathy is what it is, pseudoscience.  So, extensive training in pseudoscience means one now is off the hook.  Now naturopaths perhaps have been given license to be naturopaths, as judged naturopathically, which means as judged based on fake science, as judged on reversed values.  So, even if you are WRONG and HARM someone, you are off the hook so long as you are part of a false institutional apparatus kind of peer-review standard.  This is akin to stating that I'm not responsible for robbing a bank because I took 'Bank Robbery 101' in college and met the standards of that course.  'Hey, I got an A in bank-robbery'.  Ok sir, you're free to go...