Doctor John Campbell

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to be fair, accepting dietary advice from nutritionists is very different than taking advice from a medical professional advocating advice that "doesn't follow the accepted pharmaceutical line".   The former is established knowledge and doesn't really require any justification, the latter really does requires closer scrutiny and a higher bar given it is going against established medical practice and knowledge.

In the posts I was referring to Olive is happy to use dietary and supplement advice but only after she has filtered out the unreliable practitioners, which could have been done by contacting the professional body that regulates these health providors, whereas Practika is openly dismissive of nutritionists while taking dietary advice from his GP who is unlikely to be formally qualified to practice in this capacity but in doing so is effectively following integrative principles.

It seems that some people are happy to compromise their outlooks when the situation demands.

I see your point, i guess everyone has their own minimum level of 'qualified' that they are comfortable with... 

Your last paragraph really is a succinct description of what people do every day with every decision they make...