2021 FTC Document on Naturopathy Pseudoscience and a Musing on Sonoran

here, though I am not a lawyer, I'll cite from a rather redacted Federal Trade Commission litigation before the Office of Administrative Law Judges dated 2021 and apparently primarily represented through FTC attorney Cohen:

001. in "Motion to Quash [...] Docket No. 9397", the FTC tells us:

"[citing Atwood 2003 from MedGenMed -- the citation is Atwood K. C., 4th (2003). Naturopathy: a critical appraisal. MedGenMed: Medscape General Medicine, 5(4), 39. -- with naturopathy spelled wrong four times in the filing as 'natropathy', as 'Attachment 4'; from p.49] naturopathic medicine is a recent manifestation of the field of naturopathy, a 19th-century health movement espousing 'the healing power of nature.' 'Naturopathic physicians' now claim to be primary care physicians proficient in the practice of both 'conventional' and 'natural' medicine. Their training, however, amounts to a small fraction of that of medical doctors who practice primary care. An examination of their literature, moreover, reveals that it is replete with pseudoscientific, ineffective, unethical, and potentially dangerous practices [...]";

Atwood's article, now about 20-years-old, has never been retracted and never been refuted in any legitimate manner.

"'naturopathic medicine' is an eclectic assortment of pseudoscientific, fanciful, and unethical practices. Implausible naturopathic claims are still prevalent and are no more valid now than they were in 1968. The current wave of unexamined CAM fascination, however, appears to have helped naturopaths convince some that they have special abilities and that they are trained to be primary care physicians [...] this is the first article in a mainstream medical journal that critically summarizes the field of 'naturopathic medicine.' If physicians continue to consider naturopaths and other 'alternative' practitioners as inconsequential -- or, if the only articles on CAM that most physicians read are uncritical -- pseudoscience will continue to make inroads into patient care and health policy. The information presented herein illustrates why official sanctioning of naturopaths as health care providers, including their appointments to the MCAC, should be considered unwise";

hear, hear.

002. the case of Sonoran University of Health Sciences.  Because it boggles my mind that supposedly regulated education, of science and Title IV status, can falsely claim science upon naturopathic nonsense:

Sonoran's naturopathic nonsense;

Sonoran's science claim;

Sonoran's Title IV status.

beware.