Prescription For Fascism: Alternative Medicine and Right-Wing Politics

[Gordon Fitch]

David Lethbridge:
> ...
> Nor are CHOC, CVHR, and PN alone in this strange and dangerous coalition of
> right-wing politics and alternative medicine. Repeatedly, the connections
> emerge and criss-cross. For yet another example, among many, Canadian
> Wholesale Direct, a relatively well respected health-food distributor,
> lists Anderson's CVHR first under its heading "Health Freedom."
> Wherever we find tendencies to irrationalism and conspiracy-mongering,
> there we find fertile ground in which fascism can grow, or a movement
> which fascism can exploit. ...

The article seems somewhat superstitious to me, if not
something worse.  For one thing, it failed to show that "health
food stores" were manifestations or irrationality, or at least
of greater irrationality than unthinking subservience to the
established order; and for another, that any preponderant
number of them were sites of fascist activity.  It seems to
me if one is going to go about accusing large groups and
classes of political crimes, one should present better
evidence.