We all laughed five years ago when Terry Rondberg came to the UK and described the GCCs Code of Practice and Standards of Proficiency as “Chiropractic Pornography”. GCC members Kevin Proudman and Matt Flanagan were censured by GCC for…
Month: May 2010
De ja vue, every 20 years chiropractors do this to themselves.
This is a long posting hopefully it will be worth the effort. For over a hundred years chiropractors fought to protect their unique identity. The enemy is no longer a zealous American Medical Association or critics like the skeptics…
Born again, British Chiropractic Association joins skeptics “attack” on chiropractic.
When Richard Brown went begging for money to the international chiropractic organisations he spoke of the attack on chiropractic from the sceptics. When he is with his BCA colleagues he is talking prescribing and getting into the NHS. The “new”…
Simon Singh’s side of the British Chiropractic Associations version
I like to hear both sides of a story and I never prejudge people. Obviously as a practising Irish chiropractor I disagreed with most of what was in Simon Singhs article in the Guardian and commented in my blog…
Give generously to the British Chiropractic Association so they can build their bridge to oblivion.
The BCA president Richard Brown recently sent a begging letter to the members of the ECU asking them to help fund their legal expenses to deal with with the chiropractic skeptics complaints After explaining about the Simon Sing case, he…
Should the WFC and ECU expel the British Chiropractic Association from its ranks?
The British Chiropractic Association is the chosen representative of the ECU and the World Federation of Chiropractic in the UK. As the BCA has ignored the views of the majority of UK chiropractors and the WFC policy statement, on…
Its a bit premature for Zeno and GCC to write obituary of “Vertebral Subluxation”
On becoming a member of the GCC in 2007 one of the burning issues was the mechanistic definition of subluxation that the GCC had put on its website under FAQs. I had sent FAOI requests to the GCC because it…
Highlights of this weeks ECU conference in London: David Byfield – how to make friends and influence Simon Singh
David Byfield and I have never liked each other since he altered evidence against a BCA colleague for a GCC hearing in 2002. Thats him in in his grim reaper outfit with BCA president Richard Brown (well fed on…
Psychotherapists have learned from Chiropractors mistakes
When The GCC refused to reveal to lawyers representing psychotherapists, why the GCC’s former deputy registrar Greg Price ( Mr Price was administering complaints for the psychotherapist regulator UKCP) had to leave the GCC and whether he was a…
British Chiropractic Association asks the General Chiropractic Council to seek prescribing rights for its members
A ballot of BCA members has resulted in 78% of the votes cast (which was not that many), being in favour of asking the GCC to approach the Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Authority to set in motion a proposal to secure…