John Weeks posted a blog on Huffpost on 6/13/12 on naturopathy, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-weeks/integrative-medicine_b_1584998.html, but he hasn’t published the comment I submitted below or the second one I left excluding the links in the first.
To me that shows that he is promoting, pitching, selling his cause rather than trying to gather and address the facts of the matter. That might be fine if the product is a toaster but not when it is a system of medicine.
The comment Weeks won't post:
Naturopaths terrify me. They routinely use products that have never been evaluated for safety or efficacy. One or more of these products could be totally useless and as lethal as cigarettes but by the time that is known, it will be too late to prevent many premature deaths.
Worse still, they use dangerous snake oil like silver which disfigured me over 50 years ago.
Naturopaths practice a belief-based system of medicine, not an evidence-based one with the result that when there is overwhelming evidence that something like silver is useless and dangerous they are emotionally unable to believe that because the idea that something natural can be harmful and useless is contrary to their religious or philosophical belief that Nature heals.
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