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Britt Hermes worked as a naturopath for three years, until she discovered her boss, himself a naturopath, had been illegally importing and injecting cancer patients with a drug not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Now pursuing a career in biomedical research, Hermes has become one of alternative medicine’s most dogged critics, writing, blogging and tweeting about what she calls naturopathy’s “distinctly dangerous” and dubious therapies, like the 30-year-old San Diego woman who died in March after an IV injection of a tumeric solution (the woman had sought treatment from a naturopath for eczema), or the Arizona naturopath who uses intravenous injections of sterile, pure, liquid sodium bicarbonate — advertised as her “baking soda cancer treatment”— to neutralize the “acidity” of tumours.

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This week, when Hermes saw a tweet promoting a series of YouTube videos produced by the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors highlighting its members’ “medical training,” she responded with what has become one of her signature responses:

“FALSE,” she tweeted. “Naturopathic doctors’ are not medically trained. They learn pseudoscience. Stop lying.’”