Sam Homola recently posted an article at Science-Based Medicine where he describes his attempts to remove pseudoscience (i.e. subluxations) from chiropractic so as to provide treatments that provide legitimate effective treatment for back pain. It can be hoped that Homola succeeds but he has been at this since the early 1960s and progress has been [...]
Bunch of stuff from The Quackometer which I’ve only just got round to read. 1. The MHRA is not an effective organisation. Far from it: MHRA accused of “clothing naked quackery” http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/09/mhra-accused-of-clothing-naked-quackery.html 2. Misled graduates in career hurdle: McTimoney Chiropractic College in Deep Trouble http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/10/mctimoney-chiropractic-college-in-deep-trouble.html 3. The ASA struggles with clamping down on homeopathic advertising [...]
Quackometer has written a well-thought and damning article on Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests: Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010/07/doctors-data-bogus-tests.html Carl Sagan said: We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or [...]
The British Chiropractic Association has dropped its libel case against Simon Singh. Good. Full article at the BBC at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8621880.stm But libel lays in this country need to be improved, and the fight against nonsense continues! Other related information: Chiropractors – back in pain http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/03/03/371.html Beware the spinal trap http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/07/29/324.html Chiropractors on the run? http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/06/10/316.html [...]
The Guardian has a very good article describing the sorry state that chiropractors have gotten into for making unsubstantiated and unsupportable medical claims; claims that Simon Singh rightly called “bogus”. The Guardian article is available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/01/simon-singh-libel-case-chiropractors Related articles: Beware the spinal trap http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/07/29/324.html Chiropractors on the run? http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/06/10/316.html Chiropractic – Bogus! http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/06/04/314.html The shaky [...]
Following the recent coverage on chiropractic, The Quackometer article http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html reports on an astounding letter sent from the McTimoney Association to all its members. In a nutshell, it appears that chiropractors are running scared…running scared that the public are about to found out the truth that chiropractic is a pseudoscience. There are several points in [...]
My view on chiropractic is simple…it has been shown that chiropractic is based on non-scientific ideas, and various studies and trials reinforce that position. In other words, trials indicate that chiropractic is "bogus". The recent situation with Simon Singh has rattled my cage, so to speak, and I have included some links here regarding the [...]
