Criticism Of Iridology
Iridology or iris diagnosis as it is often called makes the strange claim
that every part of a body has a representative area in iris or the colored
portion of eyes surrounding the pupil. This school of belief holds that
diagnosis of an individual’s health and health related problems can be made on
the basis of the texture, color, and location of different pigments in eyes.
Medical doctors are mostly against the legitimacy of iridology and all its
branches, dismissing them as nothing more than pseudoscience and quackery.
Iridologists are almost never physicians. The study of iridology therefore is
confined to private institutions with mainstream medical schools refusing to
acknowledge it.
The glaring lack of scientific evidence and the very public factionalism in
the iridology school of thought are the favorite targets by critics in
denouncing it as mere folklore. Iridology is equated to being a worthless
diagnostic tool in the mildest criticism while the harshest allegation paints it
as false diagnoses with plenty of anxiety for patients in their hope of a
physician disproving the disease they were never really afflicted by.
It has also been highlighted that the essence of iridology is in direct
contradiction with the contention that no changes... Full Criticism Of Iridology article...
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