It’s a little late to get some guts!
The Globe and Mail reported on September 07, 2009 that the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA) is criticizing Vancouver’s Langara College for training the public in therapies that are “medically useless” and potentially harmful.
The criticism came from Dr. Lloyd Oppel, who, according to the Globe and Mail, monitors alternative health practices for the BCMA. Dr. Oppel is reported as saying that he has watched for a decade as, Langara’s roster of holistic health courses has progressed from recreational classes to career training. The publicly accredited college offers more than 50 classes in things like iridology (divining health from iris reading) and bone breathing, as well as a three-year certificate program qualifying practitioners of integrative energy healing to work on the public. Read the rest of this entry »