here, some musing on the present Illinois naturopathy licensure effort and how media figures often don't do journalism but instead basically product advocacy and one-sided proponentry:
001. first, a video:
001.a. up on this titled "Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians Look for State Licensure" through the YouTube account "Bishop on Air"
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[tags: #NDHines #NDlicensure #IllinoisANP]
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which states:
"[from the description] Bishop talks with Dr. Shaon Hines with the Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians about their efforts to become licensed in Illinois [...from the video, the ND states] I'm Dr. Shaon Hines [...] the president of the Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians [...] naturopathic medicine is a profession that combines the wisdom of nature and the rigors of modern science [...] we definitely think outside the box [...] we're actually licensed in almost half the United States [...] we actually have a naturopathic medical school right in Illinois [...] in Lombard, Illinois [...] we want to bring healthcare choice to the residents of Illinois [...] we're experts in evidence-based natural and preventative medicine [...] Illinois residents should have the choice to choose this healthcare if they want to [...] without licensure in Illinois anyone can actually call themselves a naturopathic doctor [...] we have a complete medical education [...taking] prerequisites undergrad for medical school [...and doing] a four year doctoral program [...] after that we have to complete board exams [...] properly medically trained [...]";
now, at ilanp.org, we're told such things in "Top 10 Reasons to Regulate Naturopathic Doctors" as "by establishing licensure for naturopathic physicians, patients will be allowed access to effective, evidence-based natural healing therapies employed by highly trained professionals" and in "What is Naturopathic Medicine?" we're told "a licensed naturopathic physician (ND) attends a four-year, graduate-level, residential naturopathic medical school and is educated in all of the same basic sciences as a MD [...] NDs study clinical nutrition, homeopathic medicine, hydrotherapy, botanical medicine, psychology and counseling. NDs takes rigorous professional board exams and may be licensed by a state or jurisdiction as a primary care, general practice physician." Homeopathy, as a bellwether, is of course science-ejected and therein the opposite of evidence-based and 'of the same science as MDs'. Yet, the board exam mentioned classifies naturopathy's homeopathy as a "clinical science". That's quite outside the box. The school mentioned is National University of Health Sciences, which also states naturopathy contains homeopathy and of course the broad categorization is 'doctoral-level science'. How is this a complete medical education that is proper? See my comments at 001.b., below, for the quite obvious epistemic status of naturopathy.
001.b. and that's it:
no counterpoints, e.g. no reference to a State medical society which opposes the bill, no great sources for counterpoint like the Center for Inquiry which specifically tells us "naturopathy is a form of pseudoscientific 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM) [...] although naturopathy is based on pseudoscience, it claims to provide medical care" [all quite easily web researchable; licensure of naturopaths is obviously licensure of falsehood];
I recommend the specific CFI page created there to contact Illinois legislators to request that they NOT to approve an Illinois naturopathy bill here;
the current bill site, which also legislatively enshrines homeopathy as a part of naturopathy and such schools as NUHS as arbiters of such a false status per the language of 2021's attempted bill [you can't make this up!], is here;
