The state licenses acupuncturists whose treatment is predicated on a stone-age variant of what the School of Nursing teaches. Coloradoans are bombarded daily with with unsubstantiated claims for every herb and root. One thing alternative therapies have in common is a lack of good evidence that they work and are reasonably safe. Most spring from their inventors' imaginations. Few have ever stood up to the scrutiny of peer review in legitimate medical publications.
None has a track record of effectiveness, save for andedotal claims.
Whatever they are called, they are, almost without exception, useless. And, as Candace's case indicates, dangerous. A tragic death like Candace's was inevitable. Colorado has long cultivated a climate where quackery can flourish. The promoters of alternatives have long attacked science as a means of separating the wheat from the chaff.