Month: January 2010

Whataboutery! Quack trick no 7,988,771

Yesterdays Guardians front page led with a report accusing NHS hospitals of putting patients lives at risk. Not surprisingly The watchdogs failed to address sceptics concerns regarding the availability of homeopathic remedies within NHS. Skeptic Andy Lewis believes I am…

Why the United Chiropractic Association (UCA) and traditional chiropractors, should be supporting Simon Sings campaign for free speech.

Technorati Tags: Britiah Chiropractic Association,BCA,united chiropractic association,UCA,simon singh,free speech.,general chiropractic council,couch trip Senior chiropractors have a long history of using lawyers to stiffel debate. I have been threatened with legal action for my views by the GCC, the BCA, and…

A chiropractic adjustment performed skilfully works whether you believe in it or not.

Only the most dogmatic sceptics would argue that chiropractic is not an effective intervention for spinal joint dysfunction/subluxation. The challenge for the chiropractic profession is to articulate the theory of the vertebral subluxation complex and explain how this theory relates…

What motivates CAM sceptics?

I have often wondered what motivates the CAM sceptics, I suspect the majority are intolerant angry people looking for a cause. In the event that I am wrong and sceptics are idealists who do care about improving peoples health let…