At the end of August, the Doctolib platform, at the heart of a controversy, deleted 17 profiles of well-being practitioners. Does the alert, coming from Internet users, mark an awareness, as to the excesses of naturopathy which sometimes offers itself very beautiful showcases, without too much control?
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Under pressure from Internet users, 17 naturopaths, registered on the appointment booking platform on Doctolib, who boasted of having been trained by the naturopath Irène Grosjean, saw their profiles deleted from the platform. Irène Grosjean, accused of sexual assault on minors, was notably implicated for questionable practices which go as far as the sexual touching of babies to bring down their fever. But for some, Doctolib is home to many more practitioners close to Irene Grosjean than these few recently deleted profiles.
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For its part, the Doctolib platform defends itself, and argues that they only represent 0.3% of appointments. These naturopaths, accused of charlatanism, sectarian drift, are also accused of conspiracy by Internet users.
Giving storefront to extremist and potentially dangerous speeches, not by bad intention but by lack of vigilance and regulation, it is also what seems to happen to Pôle Emploi. We discover on the Pôle Emploi site worrying training offers.
Pôle emploi, naturopathy in question, this is the 32nd episode of Complorama with Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, and Tristan Mendès France, lecturer and member of the observatory of conspiracy, specialist in digital cultures. A podcast to be found on the franceinfo site, the Radio France application and several other platforms such as Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify, or Deezer.