- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Navigating a Post-Truth World: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Study of Pseudoscience
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pseudoscience: What It Costs and Efforts to Fight It
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1 Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth -
2 The Psychology of (Pseudo)Science: Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Factors -
3 The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience -
4 Hard Science, Soft Science, and Pseudoscience: Implications of Research on the Hierarchy of the Sciences -
5 Food-o-science Pseudoscience: The Weapons and Tactics in the War on Crop Biotechnology -
6 An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles -
7 Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation -
8 The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors -
9 Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy -
10 Scientific Failure as a Public Good: Illustrating the Process of Science and Its Contrast with Pseudoscience -
11 Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research -
12 Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals -
13 Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You -
14 “Integrative” Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science-Based Medicine -
15 Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense -
16 Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence Tests: Facts and Misconceptions -
17 Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again -
18 Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture -
19 “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”: A Journey into AIDS Denialism -
20 Swaying Pseudoscience: The Inoculation Effect -
21 The Challenges of Changing Minds: How Confirmation Bias and Pattern Recognition Affect Our Search for Meaning -
22 Truth Shall Prevail - Contributor List
- Index
An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles
An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles
- Chapter:
- (p.137) 6 An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles
- Source:
- Pseudoscience
- Author(s):
Britt Marie Hermes
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Naturopathic medicine (a.k.a., naturopathy) is marketed as a unique form of primary care medicine that is allegedly patient-centered, safe, and effective. The heart of naturopathy is positioned within a philosophy that presumes “natural” and “traditional” methods are better than the science-driven practices of modern medicine. Naturopaths have become skilled at selling this “nature works best” gimmick through scientific deception, hyperbole, and pseudo-profundity. The result is the rise of a new medical profession lacking standards of care and a basis in reality, which teaches its practitioners to provide treatments that are inherently unethical or even illegal. How do I know? I was a licensed naturopath who sold this naturopathic quackery to patients. Herein lies stories from my time as one of these fake doctors.
Keywords: naturopathy, alternative medicine, homeopathy, vaccines, cancer, quackery
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Navigating a Post-Truth World: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Study of Pseudoscience
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pseudoscience: What It Costs and Efforts to Fight It
-
1 Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth -
2 The Psychology of (Pseudo)Science: Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Factors -
3 The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience -
4 Hard Science, Soft Science, and Pseudoscience: Implications of Research on the Hierarchy of the Sciences -
5 Food-o-science Pseudoscience: The Weapons and Tactics in the War on Crop Biotechnology -
6 An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles -
7 Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation -
8 The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors -
9 Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy -
10 Scientific Failure as a Public Good: Illustrating the Process of Science and Its Contrast with Pseudoscience -
11 Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research -
12 Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals -
13 Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You -
14 “Integrative” Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science-Based Medicine -
15 Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense -
16 Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence Tests: Facts and Misconceptions -
17 Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again -
18 Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture -
19 “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”: A Journey into AIDS Denialism -
20 Swaying Pseudoscience: The Inoculation Effect -
21 The Challenges of Changing Minds: How Confirmation Bias and Pattern Recognition Affect Our Search for Meaning -
22 Truth Shall Prevail - Contributor List
- Index
