That Letter About Reed College's Naturopath Hire

here, a letter to the editor that gets so much right:

001. at reedquest.org, there's the recent "Letter to the Editor: Reed’s Newly Hired Associate Dean for Student Health and Wellbeing, Carrie Baldwin-Sayre, is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine — and That Should Make You Very Concerned" (2019-11-20) which states:

"  I’ll be damned if my college continues to hire quacks [...] hiring someone with a background in naturopathy gives credibility to a pseudoscientific field of study to the detriment of real science practiced at Reed College [...] the 'Associate Dean of Students for Student Health and Wellbeing' is a new position which was created to oversee a cluster in Reed’s Student Life Division [...including] athletics, fitness, and outdoor programs [...] the health and counseling center [...] sexual health, advocacy, and Relationship education [...and the] wellness coordinator [...] I am of the conviction that a person whose experience is in pseudoscience has no place at a college with serious science degree programs [...] what is troubling [...] is the vitalistic and unscientific elements of the practice which are unique to naturopaths [...e.g.] at the core of naturopathic practice are the beliefs [...such as] 1) nature heals ('the healing process is ordered and intelligent; nature heals through the response of the life force') [...] let us thus examine naturopathic modalities [...which] includes: botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathic medicine, hydrotherapy, mind-body medicine, minor surgery, nature cure, natural childbirth, pharmaceutical medicine, physical medicine, and parental therapy. I could fill an entire other op-ed investigating the dubious evidence for any number of those modalities, but I will focus on the most offensive of them all: homeopathy [...] this naturopathic treatment CANNOT work in principle and is the quintessence of pseudoscience [...] as it has been summarized by Harriet Hall, MD: 'The things naturopaths do that are good are not special and the things that they do that are special are not good' [...]";

hear, hear.