Decoding an SCNM Press Release: Now Sonoran University of Health Sciences, Still the Same Not Science Essentially

here, lending some expertise to a press release that refuses transparency:

001.  at azbigmedia.com, in “Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine Announces New Name and Offerings”(2022-05), we're told:

“Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences (SCNM), the leading institution dedicated to holistic and natural approaches to medicine and health sciences, announced it will transition to Sonoran University of Health Sciences in September 2022 […]”;

ah, a science categorical claim.  And those undefinables: holistic, natural.

“the new direction is indicative of a larger shift towards highlighting the school’s multiple unique degree offerings related to the healing power of nature […] ‘we are elated to share the culmination of years of hard work to become Sonoran University,’ said Dr. Paul Mittman, President and CEO of SCNM […’this will be] the preeminent health sciences institution grounded in the healing power of nature’”; 

so, HPN grounded / essentially / defined via.  More from Mittman in 002. 

”for more information on the transition and real-time updates, please visit www.scnm.edu/university [...]”;

let's go there in 003.!

002. decoding:

of course, as has been copiously illustrated, the healing powers of nature that they speak of is specifically the science-ejected concept of vitalism.

Iin Mittman's own words from 2007 at SCNM: "I believe in the healing power of nature [...] something inside me coordinated the healing and repair, without me even thinking about it, completely involuntarily. Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, described that 'something' as the vis medicatrix naturae -- the healing power of nature. It is that same force that helped my wife's broken leg mend and grow straight when she was a teenager, and my father heal from coronary by-pass surgery last year. Nearly every culture has a name for it — the Chinese call it chi, in India they refer to it as prana, the Japanese call it ki. Present when we are born and gone when we die, this animating force exists in every living plant and animal, including humans [...] this powerful, healing force in people [...] therapeutic lifestyle changes remove obstacles to cure, permitting the vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature to flow freely and help us regain that equilibrium we call health."

Also at SCNM presently.

 This is an article of faith, aka spirit / supernatural / animism and kind, and as such, is outside of science as science-ejected or -unsupported.  Unless you just pretend that such isn't.  Which is quite easy to disprove.  And therein: science subset science-ejected / science-exterior, which is wacked because now a vetted scientific claim is equal to any defunct idea in terms of science.  That is some scary medicine.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was…

003. at www.scnm.edu/university, we’re assured:

“does this change affect your accreditation status?  Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences is accredited institutionally by the Higher Learning Commission. The doctor of naturopathic medicine is programmatically accredited by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education. We are additionally licensed by the Arizona State Board of Private Postsecondary Education. Our accreditation and license status will not be impacted by the name change to Sonoran University of Health Sciences.”

and no, right, they have to problem with this.  They are the accomplices.

004. it's the continuation of false premises and categorizations at the academic level outwards:

so now we'll have mainstream accredited university science subset: homeopathy, supernaturalism, applied kinesiology, vitalism -- aka, anything goes.  And therein, we have nonsense dressed up in a tuxedo...