When Meadows’ husband has serious reservations about her desire to ditch the advice of not one, but two, pediatric rheumatologists, Meadows implies he was the p

When Meadows’ husband has serious reservations about her desire to ditch the advice of not one, but two, pediatric rheumatologists, Meadows implies he was the poorly informed one: “I was nervous about keeping Shepherd on methotrexate, but Darin didn’t share my squeamishness. He has always been more comfortable with pharmaceuticals, more trusting in general.” If you read the original article, you'll see that she didn't "ditch" the advice. She kept giving her son the prescribed medication. She discussed "Walker's Regimen" with Dr. Kahn who approved it in conjunction with methotrexate. Dr. Immundo gave her the number of a complementary practitioner. The parents agreed that they would wait 6 weeks without increasing the dosage. They did that, their kid got better. Seems like a perfectly sensible course of action to me. I think even though Michelle M. Francl (author of the OP) touts her self as a "scientist" her article is just as influenced by emotion as the original article she's referencing. The only valid point she makes is that Susannah Meadows refers to the use of "four-miracles powder" as a "drug free" solution. Cool, that's inaccurate and pointing out that chemicals in "magically named" complementary medicines are just chemicals the same as any other is a valuable discussion to have. But she allows a really derisive and dismissive attitude to creep into her writing which has no place in scientific discourse. I realise that Meadows' article is just as emotive, but at no point does she try and take the intellectual high ground. TL;DR: we sought advice from everyone, tried everything, and our son got better as a result. Win.