Anti-Naturopathic Medicine Opinion Piece in Globe and Mail - Call to Action

IN BRIEF

On On June 24 the Globe and Mail published an opinion piece entitled "Stop Those Naturopaths Who Spread Anti-Vaxxer Myths", written by Timothy Caulfield, a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta.  It was full of misinformation about naturopathic medicine and called 

for action to prevent naturopathic doctors from educating their patients about vaccine concerns, including removing their ability to self-regulate.

Written by Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH

​This article was based on a study titled "Injecting Doubt: Responding to the Naturopathic Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric", written by Caulfield and two co-authors and published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

The team examined the websites of 300 naturopathic clinics in BC and Alberta and found that 53 of them expressed 'anti-vaccination' content, "in other words, a significant number of naturopaths – that is, members of a provincially regulated health profession – are explicitly and publicly spreading nonsense about vaccination" and that this 'must stop', and are calling for deregulation of naturopathic medicine or at least third-party (read: Big Pharma) oversight. ​

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