Essay:GW2

Misconceptions and Misinformation about Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy;

Rudolf Steiner was a racist!
This criticism is an extremely common one. But how does it hold up to scrutiny? One of the main ideas that is usually presented here is that Steiner was extremely anti-semetic, and that he was a nazi. This is simply not true, while there were a few Anthroposophists who were nazis, Steiner was "strikingly critical" of anti-semetism, and hated by the nazis.

He also didn't say that the aboriginal people of australia were devolving into apes, that notion is either a very silly misunderstanding or very malicious misinformation.

Anthroposophists can be racist, but so can anyone. And racist anthroposophists are not welcome in anthroposophical spaces, to the degree that the leaders of worldwide Anthroposophy released a paper not only denouncing racism but examining and disproving claims of racism in Anthroposophy. The evidence supports the truth, Steiner was simply not racist.

Rudolf Steiner didn't believe in viruses!
This is another intersting one. Firstly, Steiner essentially never referred to vaccinations in his work, I'm pretty sure that everyone has seen "the quote" that Steiner allegedly said, but it is not very clear if he actually said that, and, adding to that point, it's not entirely clear if he ever referred to viruses.

Anthroposophical Medicine doesn't work!
On wikipedia, and other online forums you will hear people talking about how psuedoscientific and ineffective anthroposophical medicine is, but, in the real world, anthroposophical medicine proves itself to be effective. A study included in the US National Library of Medicine shows that anthroposophical medicine has an overall positive impact on patients.