American Academy of Environmental Medicine

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''Completely unrelated to the evidence-based group American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190812225411/http://acoem.org/Learning/American-Occupational-Health-Conference-(AOHC) American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine].</ref>

The '''American Academy of Environmental Medicine''' is an association of physicians and associated professionals who — despite being ''freaking doctors'' — subscribe to numerous [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]]/[[War on Science|anti-scientific]] views, including opposition to [[GMO|GM foods]], [[Microwave|Wi-Fi]] [[Radiophobia|phobia]], and opposition to [[water fluoridation]].

According to their website,<ref>[http://aaemonline.org/ http://aaemonline.org/]</ref> the mission of the Academy is "to promote optimal health through prevention, and safe and effective treatment of the causes of illness by supporting physicians and other professionals in serving the public through education about the interaction between humans and their environment."

==Positions==
===Autism===
The Academy proposes, without [[evidence]], that [[autism]] is caused by prescription [[medicine]]s taken by the ancestors of the autistic: "Millions and millions of women who are now grandmothers took heavy doses of drugs during their pregnancies in the '50s and '60s. Escher [[JAQing off|wondered]]: Could the fertility, nausea and miscarriage drugs heavily prescribed in the past decades alter the [[fetus]] and lead to lasting, transgenerational abnormalities such as autism? … So far, no one has looked, although one ambitious study is about to be launched in Europe."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130719050242/http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/autism-epigenetics</ref>

===Water fluoridation===
They oppose water fluoridation: "[the AAEM] supports banning the addition of fluoride or products containing fluoride to public water supplies and to any substances intended for human consumption."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100524233055/http://www.aaemonline.org/images/FluorideResolution.pdf</ref>

===Smart meters===
They oppose [[smart meters]]: "We petition the bama [sic] administration to: Allow public [sic] to opt-out of smart meters without penalty & keep their analog meters. To investigate RF health effects." "Significant harmful biological effects occur from non‐thermal RF exposure showing causality. The AAEM also expresses concern regarding significant, but poorly understood [[Quantum woo|quantum field effects of EMF and RF fields]] on human health."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120718062422/http://aaemonline.org//pressadvisoryemf.pdf</ref><ref group=note>Their usage of the phrase "[[Understatement|poorly understood]]" [[Dunning-Kruger effect|probably says ''way'' more about their level of scientific literacy]] ([[Ultracrepidarianism|outside of whatever they studied to get medical licenses]], anyways) [[Irony|than they probably intended]].</ref>

===Wi-fi===
And they oppose [[Microwave|Wi-Fi]] [[Radiophobia|and all other radiation]] in general, just in case, because it's invisible and therefore scary, [[Precautionary principle|pending some indefinable and unachievable quantity of proof of safety]], [[Think of the children|for the sake of the children]]: "While the [[debate]] ensues about the dangers of WiFi, cell phone towers and cellphones, it is the doctors who must deal with the inevitable health effects. Until we can determine why some develop symptoms and others do not, and some are debilitated for indeterminate amounts of time, we implore you to not take this risk, with the health of so many children whose parents have entrusted you to keep them as safe as possible while at school."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130813221200/http://aaemonline.org/docs/PeelSD.pdf</ref>

===Vaccines===
They oppose [[mercury]] in [[Vaccine hysteria|vaccines]]: "If someone insists that you or a loved one must get the [[Hepatitis B vaccine]], be sure to read the package insert and know that you have the right to refuse the vaccination."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20090612074821/http://www.aaemonline.org/images/GreenOurVaccineRallySupport.pdf</ref>

===Genetically modified food===
They oppose [[genetically modified food]]: "GE crop technology abrogates natural reproductive processes, selection occurs at the single cell level, the procedure is highly mutagenic and routinely breeches genera barriers, and the technique has only been used commercially for 10 years … [[Glyphosate|[g]lyphosate]] is possibly "the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151231030250/https://www.aaemonline.org/gmo.php</ref>

==="Firsts"===
According to their [https://web.archive.org/web/20080515081041/http://www.aaemonline.org/AboutUS.html About page], the AAEM was the first organization to diagnose such [[Psychosomatic|"ailments"]] as [[Psychosomatic#Multiple chemical sensitivity|multiple chemical sensitivity]], [[Gulf War syndrome]], and [[Candida|yeast syndrome]]. They also claim to be the first to describe or acknowledge [[food allergy]] (!), which is pretty amazing since they weren't founded until 1965.

==External links==
*[http://www.aaemonline.org/ AAEM web site]
*[[Science-Based Medicine]] [http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/environmental-medicine/ article on the AAEM]
*[[Quackwatch]] [http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecorg.html list of questionable organizations], which includes the AAEM

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[[Category:Woo]]
[[Category:Misnomers]]
[[Category:Anti-vaccination movement]]
[[Category:GMO]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience promoting organizations]]
[[Category:Radiophobia]]
[[Category:Water fluoridation]]

Categories: Medicine, Woo, Misnomers, Anti-vaccination movement, GMO, Pseudoscience promoting organizations, Radiophobia, Water fluoridation