Suzanne Humphries is a nephrologist (kidney doctor) who has recently (as of 2011) become a vocal proponent of
pseudoscience and
quack medicine. 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 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's 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 modern 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.
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."
[5]
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.
[6]
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