At Mother Jones: A Naturopath Against Disinformation and for Skepticism [ISYN]

here, quite the global disorientation:

001. at motherjones.com, in "A Naturopath's Advice for Reasoning With Vaccine Deniers", Piper McDaniel writes:

"Alan Christianson, a board-certified endocrinologist and naturopathic medicine practitioner based in Phoenix [...] a member of NDs for Vaccines, a group of naturopathic practitioners calling for evidence-based discussion [...]";

this is not true in the sense of a medical doctor being board certified: the naturopath is board-certified by a naturopathic endocrinology association.  According to the ND's bio., the ND is an SCNM ND graduate. So it's interesting to hear about "evidence-based".  Naturopathy at SCNM, with its claims of 'branch of medical science' and then homeopathy, supernaturalism, and vitalism within [and kind] is the opposite of evidence-based.  It is the opposite of something with integrity.

"[the ND states] 'I don’t even see them as dying from the virus. I see them as dying from disinformation' [...]";

this is rather rich in the sense that naturopathy is an epitome of disinformation: like when we're told that homeopathy is powerful at the national naturopathic organization, the AANP. It's very interesting that NDs for Vaccines condemns homeopathy posed as effective in terms of a vaccine replacement -- they state "we condemn in the strongest terms the unethical practice of administering homeopathic substances as a form of immunization, as well as the unethical and illegal practice of falsifying vaccine records" -- but they are silent about their collective for-decades unethical posing of such things as homeopathy as science-based.

"on facts vs misinformation [...] the term is epistemology [...] I would argue that the best approach is to then weigh the merits of their evidence. 'Science is a process. It’s not truth; it’s not perfection,' but 'it’s the best way to find answers given the data we have' [...] on healthy skepticism vs cynicism [...] skepticism is, 'I’ll wait till I see good evidence either way' [...]"; 

and yet if this were applied to naturopathy...when you apply scientific skepticism to naturopathy, it just melts away as nonsense.  So, this is all quite disoriented.