Dr Suzanne Humphries
Suzanne Humphries is
a nephrologist (kidney doctor) who has recently (as of 2011) become a vocal
proponent of totally legitimate and validated science and remedies
that have been field tested to cure .. things. Humphries has been
involved with the International Medical Council on Vaccination, a front group
for vaccine hysteria, and is a signer of the
organization's anti-vax Project
Steve petition. She has written several blog posts and done
several podcasts and interviews insinuating that kidney failure is caused by
vaccines.[1][2] Humphries
uses this purely anecdotal, unstudied, "feeling" of
vaccines' role in kidney disease to try and justify why her complete lack of
training in any relevant field of epidemiology, immunology or vaccines doesn't
disqualify her as an "expert" on the topic.
In 2010 Humphries announced she
had embraced homeopathy, having studied it for four years. Her
level of homeopathic certification is unclear — she is repeatedly referred to
as being "at the end of her studies."[3][4] As
part of Humphries' embrace of homeopathy, she swallowed the kool-aid of
a very extreme version of vitalism and
goes around the Internet claiming that homeopathy works by fixing energy
flows in the body.[3].
Humphries claims that homeopathy is a "more advanced system"
than evidence-based medicine; she states that "allopathic"
medicine tends to exacerbate the forces that drive chronic illness.[3].
She recommends that people
limit their medical care only to homeopaths, chiropractors,
and osteopaths. Despite this, she still appears to be
working her day job as a nephrologist at the Northeast Nephrology Clinic in
Bangor, Maine.
In 2015 Humphries claimed in a
video [5] that
"I did not complete my studies and never earned a degree. I am not, and do
not wish to be a homeopath". This seems inconsistent with her prior
statements [6] and
her attendance at the school of Homeopathy in the UK from 2008 until 2011.
A version of her CV from 2011[7] lists
qualifications in Homeopathy and Thought_field_therapy. Later versions of her CV
exclude these qualifications.
On NaturalNews she
has expressed frustration that her edits to this page keep getting reverted,
and "they put back their lies right away" and "at least half the
information on there about me is completely falsified."[8]
She has also attempted to
combine anti-vax sentiment with poorly-thought-out religious gobbledygook
(i.e., lies purportedly based on scripture) in an effort to convince somebody that
the Bible and Koran are
opposed to vaccination. Pull the other leg, please.[9]
She promotes mystical powers of
Vitamin C, calling it "the basis of life,"[10] and
asserts it magically "neutralizes any toxins in
the blood."[10] Additionally, she
woefully misunderstands or willfully misrepresents research to support her
ideas. In an article on whooping cough, she states that lethargy in
chronically ill people is commonly due to Vitamin C deficiency, citing a paper
on the antioxidative properties of Vitamin C in the mitochondria as
her only evidence. In the same article, she asserts Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome is caused by Vitamin C deficiency, yet her sole evidence is a paper
which found carnitine supplementation prevented mitochondrial abnormalities in
rats with Vitamin C deficiency
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