here, some active skepticism in this day and age [rare!]:
001. at skeptics.com.au, in an 2025-10-06 post titled“Banned Naturopath Barbara O’Neill Wins 2025 Bent Spoon”, Tim Mendham writes:
“Barbara O’Neill, the banned ‘naturopath’ – who has no medical qualifications at all – has won the Australian Skeptics’ Bent Spoon award for 2025. The Spoon is given annually to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of pseudoscientific or paranormal piffle. It has been given every year since 1982 and is one of the least sought-after prizes in Australia. O’Neill has earned the ‘honour’ after years of promoting pseudo-medical nonsense and dangerous claims of supposed and debunked cures for serious ailments";
hear, hear.
"The Skeptics awards were announced at the gala dinner for Skepticon, the Australian Skeptics national convention, that was held in Melbourne on October 4”;
Just a mention and caution: naturopathy in Australia, unbanned and institutionalized, is quite the misrepresentation. For instance, a web search >site:.au naturopathic victoria iridology science< yields the first result of "Kerrie Lean, Naturopath Elwood" whose bio. page states she has a "Bachelor of Health Science in Naturopathy" and on her page "Iridology Analysis" we're told "iridology is the science of analyzing the delicate structures of the eye, mainly in the iris. It is a form of anaylsis [sic, analysis] used in conjunction with other modern and traditional diagnostic techniques to help facilitate a more complete understanding of a patient’s health care needs [...] how can iridology tell me anything about my internal state of health? Nerve fibers in the iris respond to changes in body tissues that correspond to specific changes in tissue and location. This gives us the ability to ‘read’ internal tissue conditions in the most remote parts of the body and more incredibly gives an entire view of our internal responses to health challenges in a single view." As I've often said, 'the science that ain't science.'
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