Quackometer article on chiropractors attacking their own regulator: Chiropractors at War with their Regulator, the GCC http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010/11/chiropractors-at-war-with-their-regulator-the-gcc.html Chiropractic is based on quackery but I am aware that some are trying to distance themselves from the quackery nonsense and move to a more scientific approach; perhaps in the same way that modern chemistry moved on from [...]
Further to my recent article Chiropractor’s back off! at http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/04/15/384.html regarding the British Chiropractic Association on their dropping the libel case against Simon Singh, I’ve came across an article from the excellent Ben Goldacre at http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/british-chiropractic-association-drops-shameful-libel-case-against-science-writer-who-criticised-them/ which goes into a bit more depth. Well worth a read. There is another excellent article from Stuff and [...]
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 [...]
