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 The hallmark of a fraud rather than an ""alternative practitioner"" 

Since there is another burst of rehabilitation, and reduction of the usefulness of WP as a reference work, going on at present, let me point this out:-  ""Alternative practitioners"" not uncommonly claim that conventional medicine and conventional doctors are all wrong, or know nothing of higher things.  What they don't do is claim to be qualified conventional doctors from Heidelberg.  That takes him firmly over the boundary from someone who might be thought to be a quackish practitioner with some ""ideas"" that are not accepted conventionally for trivial reasons such as having been demonstrated to be wholly unfounded, wrong and empirically ineffective ... into the territory of the fraudster which he inhabited.  Fraud is common, and health fraud is a common variety of it, and WP:IS not a tool to confuse people abut whether demonstrated fraudsters might actually be as careful and sensible as any proper doctor from Heidelberg, whether mit scars or sans Francisco.  Got that?   "