My field is the red-headedest stepchild of them all, and the FDA (presumably with pressure from pharma) is trying to regulate it out of existence for its “dangerous” drugs while pharma shills mock it for being nothing at all; no hypocrisy is too polar for these folks. Despite this abuse at the hands of the mainstream for decades (ever since the Flexner Report), many in my field are begging for “legitimacy” in the form of approved credentialism. For *homeopathy.*

And yet, when a doctor I know ruthlessly ridicules my work and says it only persists because of the corruption in the pharma-medico complex that drives people into the arms of “quacks,” and says that, in a free market for medicine, we wouldn’t exist, I am happy to accept his challenge.

Let the market decide. We don’t need credentialism, we need credibility, and you get that through competent, effective, and transparent service.