"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Massachusetts passes legislation licensing naturopathic quackery. Only the governor can stop it now.

Post author By Orac
Post date January 6, 2017
55 Comments on Massachusetts passes legislation licensing naturopathic quackery. Only the governor can stop it now.

Naturopaths couldn't wait for the governor to sign s.2335, a bill licensing their quackery.

In a perverse way, one almost has to admire naturopaths. If there’s anything that characterizes naturopaths in their pursuit of legitimacy and licensure, it’s an amazing relentlessness. In this, they are not unlike The Terminator. As Kyle Reese described him in the first Terminator movie, the Terminator “can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned […]

Tags Amy Rothenberg, Jay Kaufman, licensure, Massachusetts, naturopathy, quackery, S.2335

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Naturopaths and supplement manufacturers: In bed together to promote naturopathic licensure

Post author By Orac
Post date May 19, 2016
71 Comments on Naturopaths and supplement manufacturers: In bed together to promote naturopathic licensure

After yesterday’s epic mid-week rant about a man who thinks he knows what skepticism is but clearly doesn’t, it’s time to get back to business. The best way to do that is to go back to an article that came out the other day and that I had meant to blog about but temporarily shelved […]

Tags Amy Rothenberg, homeopathy, licensing, naturopathy, quackery

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