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Licensing naturopathic quackery in Mississippi: If at first you don’t succeed…

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Here we go again. Naturopaths crave legitimacy for their brand of pseudoscientific medicine. Basically, they delude themselves into thinking that they are real doctors and can function as primary care providers, despite abundant evidence that they cannot. they One (of several) ways they seek to acquire that legitimacy for naturopathy and themselves is through promoting […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery

Massachusetts takes a big step towards licensing naturopathic quackery

A naturopath, doing what naturopaths do best.

Living and practicing surgery in Michigan, it’s not surprising that I am very concerned about a bill being considered in the Michigan House of Representatives. The bill, HB 4531, would license naturopaths as health care providers. In fact, it would give them a very broad scope of practice, defined by a newly created board of […]