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Chiropractors – shameful, vile?

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 15 April 2010, 6:29 pm

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 [...]

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Chiropractor’s back off!

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 15 April 2010, 5:42 pm

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 [...]

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Chiropractors – back in pain

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 3 March 2010, 6:37 pm

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 [...]

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Sikh judge Sir Mota Singh and knives

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 8 February 2010, 6:33 pm

Retired judge Sir Mota Singh, a Sikh, recently made some comments that Sikhs must be allowed to carry Kirpans (a ceremonial dagger or knife) and be exempt from the prohibitions that forbid the carrying of knives to such places as schools. In UK law, there some seem to be some specific exemptions for “religious reasons” [...]

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Beware the spinal trap

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 29 July 2009, 5:31 pm

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 [...]

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Chiropractic – Bogus!

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 4 June 2009, 5:42 pm

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 [...]

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Homeopaths Attempt to Rubbish Ernst and Singh with Dismal Critique

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 22 April 2009, 6:42 pm

The Quackometer has an article that describes William Alderson’s (ill-written) response to Ernst & Singh’s book "Trick or Treatment: Medicine on Trial". The article is at http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/04/homeopaths-attempt-to-rubbish-ernst-and.html

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Photos of Kulvinder Singh Matharu – Part 1

Posted by Kulvinder Matharu on 5 January 2008, 4:33 pm

OK, this is a bit of a vanity post but some people have asked for photos of me so I’ve gone through my published photos and have collated the links here. Someone also accused me of not smiling in my photos…you judge! I think you’ll find that most of the pre-2001 photos are of low [...]

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