Chris Kresser
What to make of Chris Kresser? Members of the current Paleo clique such as Kurt Harris, Emily Deans and Stephan Guyenet seem to like him, supposedly those people care about science and medicine, they have their degrees. But after looking at Kresser's website it is very clear Kresser knows little of what he talks for someone has a consultation section on his blog. Perhaps this does make sense, since despite his Ph. D from the UW Guyenet was not able to put two and two together about the concept of having to get past an Institutional Review Board for his attempted Food Reward Trial. If you can't even do that you might as well team up with someone like him due to personal lack of professional standards.
In Kresser's About section, he has no medical qualifications in which to speak of, only acupuncture and 'integrative medicine', ie, Kresser is not a real nurse or doctor. Despite this, he uses his website for consultations.
More disturbing are his claims about gestation and pregnancy, which are simply not true.
Buckley embraces an evolutionary perspective on pregnancy and childbirth. Such a perspective affirms the natural process of gestation and birth and recognizes a woman’s genetically inherited capacity to give birthwithout medical intervention.
In the same way that we evolved to eat a species-appropriate diet (i.e. paleo), we evolved to give birth in an undisturbed environment.
This is preposterous, no one's body is designed to give birth perfectly. I will also add that it is also not uncommon for animals giving birth or laying eggs in the wild to die while in pain or eaten by predators.
Why anyone with medical or scientific degrees would choose to associate themselves with Kresser, I do not know, though I do believe if you are going to claim to stand for professionalism and science then people like Kresser are perhaps not the best ones to support.