Following my article No place for critical thinking at Oprah Magazine at http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/09/07/470.html I was contacted by Simon Owens who interviewed Hall on her firing from the magazine. This is a pretty good interview and clarifies a number of points from Hall: Did a science columnist for Oprah’s magazine get fired for her views on [...]
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 [...]
reprinted from Sense About Science Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This is an edited version of an article published in The Guardian for which Singh is being personally sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association. Beware the [...]
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 [...]
