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4 days ago
4 days ago
In this Naturocrit Podcast Episode 017, also known as Season 2 Episode 7, I’ll cover a new 2026 study on the practices of Connecticut naturopaths which I have titled “A CSF Framework Evaluative Analysis of 107 Licensed Connecticut Naturopaths’ Practices in Relation to Science, Ethics, Commerce, and Freedom.”
The four main parts of this Episode are: the 2026 study’s Polished Report [017b], the 2026 study’s Final Report [017c], follow-up questions as a formal section [017d], and a rather long conclusion section [017e].
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This is a large conclusion section for the 2026 evaluation and analysis of the practices of those licensed NDs in Connecticut.
4 days ago
4 days ago
In this Naturocrit Podcast Episode 017, also known as Season 2 Episode 7, I’ll cover a new 2026 study on the practices of Connecticut naturopaths which I have titled “A CSF Framework Evaluative Analysis of 107 Licensed Connecticut Naturopaths’ Practices in Relation to Science, Ethics, Commerce, and Freedom.”
The four main parts of this Episode are: the 2026 study’s Polished Report [017b], the 2026 study’s Final Report [017c], follow-up questions as a formal section [017d], and a rather long conclusion section [017e].
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This is the follow-up question section.
4 days ago
4 days ago
In this Naturocrit Podcast Episode 017, also known as Season 2 Episode 7, I’ll cover a new 2026 study on the practices of Connecticut naturopaths which I have titled “A CSF Framework Evaluative Analysis of 107 Licensed Connecticut Naturopaths’ Practices in Relation to Science, Ethics, Commerce, and Freedom.”
The four main parts of this Episode are: the 2026 study’s Polished Report [017b], the 2026 study’s Final Report [017c], follow-up questions as a formal section [017d], and a rather long conclusion section [017e].
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This Part C will include the Final Report and a follow-up check of that report titled "Appendix to Episode 017 Part C's Final Report."
4 days ago
4 days ago
In this Naturocrit Podcast Episode 017, also known as Season 2 Episode 7, I’ll cover a new 2026 study on the practices of Connecticut naturopaths which I have titled “A CSF Framework Evaluative Analysis of 107 Licensed Connecticut Naturopaths’ Practices in Relation to Science, Ethics, Commerce, and Freedom.”
The four main parts of this Episode are: the 2026 study’s Polished Report [017b], the 2026 study’s Final Report [017c], follow-up questions as a formal section [017d], and a rather long conclusion section [017e].
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In this Part B, I'll cover the Polished Report after an overview of the entire study process including: data acquisition and exclusion criteria, and the Perplexity taskings upon the Connecticut NDs' practice data. I will also cover a significant amount of interrogatives regarding a dominant mode of naturopathy activity as evidenced within the data set, naturopathy's 'root cause' model.
4 days ago
4 days ago
In this Naturocrit Podcast Episode 017, also known as Season 2 Episode 7, I’ll cover a new 2026 study on the practices of Connecticut naturopaths which I have titled “A CSF Framework Evaluative Analysis of 107 Licensed Connecticut Naturopaths’ Practices in Relation to Science, Ethics, Commerce, and Freedom.”
The four main parts of this Episode are: the 2026 study’s Polished Report [017b], the 2026 study’s Final Report [017c], follow-up questions as a formal section [017d], and a rather long conclusion section [017e].
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But first, I’ll: read aloud the cover letter of an upload I submitted to the State of Connecticut in October of 2025, review and elaborate on how the Cullen-Snyder framework extends the work Flexner did in 1910, and provide an overview of the 2017 Connecticut DPH report on naturopathy.
Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Saturday Oct 04, 2025
This the second part of the two-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 016, aka s02e06, titled “The Cullen-Snyder Framework and AI-LLM Applications of That Framework.”
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In this second part of Episode 016 I will cover: past complaints and totalitarianism musings which includes applying the CSF to 2003 archived material and musing about Orwell’s 1984 and my life [really!], a new 2025 submission to the State of CT which includes the Cullen-Snyder Framework and application #004, reflecting on 25 Years and an oath that made me vomit, AANMC emails’ patterns of opaque communication of naturopathy’s essential vitalism, the NUNM admissions pamphlet and school catalog from 1994-1995, and a conclusion.
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
This the first part of the two-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 016, aka s02e06, titled “The Cullen-Snyder Framework and AI-LLM Applications of That Framework.”
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In this first part of Episode 016, I'll be sharing a hybrid framework I've recently created and my application of that framework to five data sets. Additionally, this Episode 016 Part 1 will include a comparison of the third application to my M.S. capstone, and a collected summary of the results of all the applications that were employed as examples.
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
In this multi-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 015, aka s02e05, retitled from “The JACM 2019 Special Issue on Naturopathy” to “A Qualitative Content Analysis of Curated World Naturopathic Federation Publications and Reports Employing the Online Misinformation Engagement Framework Within a Paradigm of Methodological Naturalism,” I'll be sharing a study I've recently written in a semi-scholarly manner.
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In this third part of Episode 015 Part C, I'll cover the study/project step 16 which is the results or findings in terms of themes, codes, and the supporting language from the WNFM.
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
In this multi-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 015, aka s02e05, retitled from “The JACM 2019 Special Issue on Naturopathy” to “A Qualitative Content Analysis of Curated World Naturopathic Federation Publications and Reports Employing the Online Misinformation Engagement Framework within a Paradigm of Methodological Naturalism,” I'll be sharing a study I've recently written in a semi-scholarly manner.
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In this second part of Episode 015 Part C, I'll cover the study/project steps 1 through 15 which is title, introduction and methods.
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
In this multi-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 015, aka s02e05, retitled from “The JACM 2019 Special Issue on Naturopathy” to “A Qualitative Content Analysis of Curated World Naturopathic Federation Publications and Reports Employing the Online Misinformation Engagement Framework Within a Paradigm of Methodological Naturalism,” I'll be sharing a study I've recently written in an semi-scholarly manner.
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In this first part of Episode 015 Part C, I'll cover the context of that conversion in terms of the study or project, what I've termed naturopathy's methodological con-fabulation, and naturopathy's vitalistic / supernaturalistic oncology through the institutional structures of healthcare publishing, the law, and academics.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
In this multi-part Naturocrit Podcast Episode 015, aka s02e05, titled “The JACM 2019 Special Issue on Naturopathy”, aka SIN, I’ll be primarily looking at a collection -- as published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and sponsored by the University of Technology Sydney, Australia -- of around 15 articles specifically about naturopathy from contributors largely located in Australia and North America.
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In this final third of Episode 015 Part 2, I will cover the references used in the capstone section of Part 1 and the IM in CM paper from Section 2, as promised.