Lecture 6: Naturopathy and Herbal Medicines

Naturopathy is an ill-defined system based on vitalistic mythology; it combines commonsense health and nutrition measures and rational use of a few herbs with a huge variety of unscientific practices and anti-medical double-talk. What naturopaths do that is good is no different from what MDs do, and what they do that is different is not good, and is potentially dangerous.

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