One of the things that makes amuses when reading sceptic blogs is the impression they seem to have that all CAM practitioners must be delusional and the public should go to “real doctors” for treatment, because all their interventions…
Month: March 2010
Study investigating whether manipulation of the upper cervical spine could reduce blood pressure
Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research Begins Patient Recruiting for a Study on Chiropractic and High Blood Pressure Published on December 1, 2009 December 1, 2009 (Davenport, IA) — Researchers at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR) clinic facility,…
GCC regulatory report, 656 complaints in 2009.
Two blips in the number of complaints received since 2000. In 2005 when the BCA used the GCC to mess up the UCA and made 80 complaints against the UCA executive and in 2009 when the sceptics used the GCC…
Bogus Claims and drug promotion
Rupert Cornwell: The vast cost of drug promotion puts judgement in doubt Independent Friday, 19 March 2010 Links between the big drug companies and doctors have become increasingly controversial in the US, as the pharmaceutical industry showers physicians each year…
How are the General Chiropractic Council and the British Chiropractic Council going to deal with Zeno’s complaints
This are the General Chiropractic Council’s answers ( in red) to my Freedom of Information request relating to their dealings with the Sceptics complaints and the financial relationship BCA president Richard Brown has with the GCC. 1. How many of…
Check out sceptics blogs, they are getting very emotional about the fall of their great leader.
Sceptics seem to get rather upset with anyone who criticise the pope of Scepticism the infallible professor Ezard Ernst I have never met Edzard Ernst, however I can say with confidence he has very little understand of what goes on…
“Regulators like the General Chiropractic Council have different and inconsistent methods of engaging with patients”
The article below appears in the Health Service Journal. I am not against regulation, I am against bad regulation. Regulation should be there to protect the people who use the service, not to settle interprofessional disputes, or ex girlfriends with…