A.k.a. Renee Hunter
Renee Tocco is a Michigan-based chiropractor well known in
the anti-vaccine movement, and signatory to the International Medical Council
on Vaccination’s list of people … well, anti-vaccinationists (and, yes, IMCV is a belligerent anti-science organization). She is also the
founder of Hope for Autism, another group devoted to proposing unsupported claims about the causes (and potential
solutions) of the probably mythical autism epidemic.
And of course the vaccines are to blame. According to Tocco there is a
conspiracy going on in the medical community to protect (for rather nebulous
reasons) the idea that autism has a genetic component and exonerate vaccines.
She also has the solution: “I truly believe that
chiropractors, as primary health care physicians, are destined to change the
world of autism.” The reason is that instead of medication, Tocco thinks,
chiropractors can use woo. In particular, her woo. “Hope For Autism offers BioNutritional Care training for both
chiropractic physicians and the general public. Bionutritional Care utilizes
diagnostic tools and methods of testing to determine the underlying
physiological causes of symptoms particular to an individual suffering with a
disease or condition. These underlying physiological conditions include, but
are not limited to, chronic fungal, bacterial, viral or parasitic infection,
nutritional deficiency, food and inhalant allergies, heavy metal toxicity,
systemic inflammation, and immune system deficiencies. Then, with a focus on
natural and non-invasive treatments and modalities, an individual’s
fundamental diagnoses are addressed with methods that have been shown to be
effective.” Evidence for efficacy? How dare you even ask – it is “natural.”
And the approach can, in a few easy steps, take care of a lot of things in one
fell swoop, non-invasively, which is the hallmark of good woo.
Diagnosis: I kinda hope this entry is greeted with a yawn.
There is nothing new or original here. Just the standard admixture of
conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and spamming.
...yawn
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