In this first half of the Naturocrit Podcast's Episode 006, titled "The Epistemic Conflation of a School of Thought Claiming to be Scientific", I revisit my self-published 2006 'thesis' which demolishes naturopathy as a legitimate academic category and clinical activity. This first part covers epistemics, naturopathy's epistemic conflation, and naturopathy's essential science-ejected vitalism 'linchpin' premise.