Hacking Consumer Protection Structures: California Department of Consumer Affairs Naturopathic Medicine Committee 2021 Video

here, some musings regarding if we are really going to talk about infiltrations, and differences:

001. at YouTube, on the California Department of Consumer Affairs account -- yes the .gov -- there's the 2021 video "Naturopathic Doctor vs. Naturopath – What’s the Difference?" [saved 2021-11] which tells us:

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**Updated link 2022-01; embed has been updated.**

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[tags: #hackedconsumerprotection #stateofcalifornialicensedfalsehood]

"[we're shown] Dr. Dennis Godby [...] ND [...a] licensed naturopathic doctor [...who tells us] 'for a consumer, it's important to know who you are going to [...we] take the exact same classes as medical doctors do' [...] licensed NDs are regulated by the naturopathic medicine committee under the California Department of Consumer Affairs [...and they have] extensive education and training [...and] pass rigorous exams [...] how can consumers tell the difference? [...] for DCA news, I'm Sherry Gyuro [...] reporting [who claims to be a public information officer...]";

so that's a '.gov' endorsement of what can categorically be described as AANMC naturopathy.  Because the kind of ND, the Godby kind, graduate from schools such as Godby's alma mater NUNM.  Is this "exact same [...] extensive [...and] rigorous" in vein? And we're told "it's important to know" and that differences matter.  There's also the gall to present the clip as journalism, via someone claiming to be reporting.  Oh yeah...

002. and now for some thoughts on:

002.a. 'same and differences':

002.a1. at NUNM, we're told in "Naturopathic Principles of Healing":

"the practice of naturopathic medicine emerges from six principles of healing. These principles are based on the objective observation of the nature of health and disease and are examined continually in light of scientific analysis. These principles stand as the distinguishing marks of the profession.  [#1] The healing power of nature — vis medicatrix naturae. The body has the inherent ability to establish, maintain, and restore health. The healing process is ordered and intelligent; nature heals through the response of the life force. The physician’s role is to facilitate and augment this process [...] the process of healing includes the generation of symptoms, which are, in fact, expressions of the life force attempting to heal itself";

they have done all the work for us: a claim that the science ejected is an objective fact that survives scientific scrutiny when instead, vitalism, is in fact a sectarian contention.  This is irrational, it is often labeled pseudoscience, and it is pernicious. One of the more weird constructions, beyond claiming sectarian objects of faith are instead scientific objective facts, is to claim that disease results in symptoms MERELY, as opposed to the more complex constellation of signs and symptoms of regular, modern, scientific medicine.  Obviously, the ND is not the same as the MD, despite ND Godby's claim.  Yet CDCA offers no warning, no details, it merely acts like a billboard for this market sector.  This is a hacking, an infiltration: exploitative, unfair, disempowering.

002.b. pseudojournalism presenting a pseudoscience [oh the irony!]:

and without that counterpoint aspect, without full reporting as opposed to manipulative half-assed supposed reporting, this video is not the journalism it claims to be. Similar to how belief in a life force is not objective fact, claiming naturopathy is being accurately represented by CDCA is also not objective.

002.c. the mission of a consumer affairs department:

the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs states in "About Us"

"mission: we protect California consumers by providing a safe and fair marketplace through oversight, enforcement, and licensure of professions. Vision: together, empowering California consumers [...]";

I really don't think so. 

003. but licensed falsehood marches on! Because, in fact, the ca.gov Naturopathic Medicine Committee states in "2016 Oversight Review Report" such science assurances as:

"NPLEX Part II - Core Clinical Science Examination is an integrated case-based examination that covers the following topics: diagnosis (using physical & clinical methods, and lab tests & imaging studies), materia medica (botanical medicine and homeopathy), nutrition, physical medicine, health psychology, emergency medicine, medical procedures, public health, pharmacology, and research [...]";

and of course homeopathy is not a science at all.  It's all just rented out billboard space.