The article is about trolls and paid shills hijacking alternative health forums to either defend Big Pharma profits or because they feel their simple-minded worldview is threatened by the emerging alternative paradigm. Actually, in the US theres been numerous reports of skeptics revealing their true nature when confronted by the alternative health movement. Everything from acting like a hate group to suppression.
I had to laugh at the part about "naturopaths invested interest". LOL. First, how many people have died/suffered because conventional medical quackery holds a stranglehold over the very medical system and government that regulates the medical system? Surely, no naturopath has the financial means to defend themselves or their patients. And their far more open-minded than any of the supposed skeptics.
Conspiracy theories? Scaremongering? Theres every reason in the world to be very scared and believe in conspiracies. Every reason. Yes, I may trust my intuition, but hey look at the coming climate change, resource issues, corporate takeover, and tell me I'm wrong. Maybe we're all conspiracist theorist.