{"id":6275,"date":"2017-11-09T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:30:27","slug":"professor-edzard-ernst-a-career-built-on-discrediting-natural-health-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2017\/11\/professor-edzard-ernst-a-career-built-on-discrediting-natural-health-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Edzard Ernst: A Career Built On Discrediting Natural Health Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0<\/strong>Edzard Ernst<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a retired German physician and academic, has recently become a prominent advocate of plans that could potentially outlaw the entire profession of naturopathic doctors in Germany. Promoting the nonsensical idea that naturopathic medicine somehow poses a risk to public health, Ernst attacks its practitioners as supposedly having been educated in \u201cnonsense\u201d. Tellingly, however, given that he himself has seemingly not published even so much as one completely original scientific trial of his own, Ernst\u2019s apparent attempts to discredit natural healthcare approaches are largely reliant instead on his analysis or review of handpicked negative studies carried out by others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Previously promoting himself as the UK\u2019s \u201conly professor of complementary medicine\u201d, Ernst was essentially\u00a0forced out<\/a>\u00a0from a post at the University of Exeter in 2011 after publicly attacking Prince Charles over his support for natural forms of medicine. Clearly embittered over this incident, Ernst claims the Prince\u2019s ideas about alternative approaches to healthcare amount to \u201cquackery\u201d and has publicly derided him as a \u201cchampion of anti-science\u201d. As it turns out, however, the philosophies of Ernst himself are hardly beyond criticism.<\/p>\nErnst now also featured on the NT2 website!<\/span><\/a>\n\n

Peddling the old claim that supplementary vitamins just create \u201cexpensive urine\u201d<\/h3>\n

Still peddling the long-disproven claim that taking supplementary vitamins just creates expensive urine, Ernst essentially asserts that in developed countries the vast majority of the population can easily obtain sufficient amounts of micronutrients in their daily diets. Arguing that Americans are wasting billions of dollars on nutritional supplements, he seems to hold the draconian view that natural health products \u201cshould have no place in pharmacies\u201d.<\/p>\n

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