This medical reformer was German natural healer Karl Kotschau in the 1930s, and the revolution that he promoted was the Nazi revolution. The Nazis resurrected medieval German alchemist Paracelsus to help promote holistic naturopathy, and Paracelsus is a favorite of today s New Agers. In fact, Germany is the source of a remarkable number of the currently most popular delusional and fraudulent alternatoid medicines including naturopathy, magnetic healing, homeopathy, orgonomy, aromatherapy, superstition based herbalism, live cell therapy, electro-dermal screening, and many bogus cancer remedies. I am not saying that the New Age movement will lead to another world war and holocaust, only that its demagogic, mystical, metaphysical, and tyrannical tendencies, along with media and government promotion of antiscientific lies, can lead to no good. Lysenkoism, which devastated Soviet agricultural and medical sciences for decades, and Mao s Great Leap Forward with its resurrection of traditional Chinese medicine and disastrous industrial and agricultural policies, provide other examples of the catastrophic effects of basing public policy on ideology-driven pseudoscience.
Alternatoid medicine has some disturbing parallels to another unsavory business, tobacco.
I would not rule this out. Senator Hatch has repeatedly said that people who push drugs on our kids should be locked up and the keys thrown away. Inc. All rights reserved.