Entries categorized 'Advertising Standards'
I haven't thought about this in many years now. Maybe letting the pain and disappointment of the most unpleasant experience in my life fade into the past. However, while surfing the web last week, I found the www.chiropracticlive.com forum and found also that my case with the GCC had been referred to...
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Posted on July 12, 2006 by Richard Lanigan |
It would be funny if it was not so tragic for the chiropractic profession, and the BCA leadership will not have the sense to call off their dogs. On the other hand it could turn out that the BCA council knew exactly what they were doing and their action was deliberate so chiropractic sceptics would clearly...
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Posted on June 04, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
Technorati Tags: general chiropractic council , ASA ASA Adjudications Wigstion Alternative Treatment Centre Practitioners 50 Long Street Wigstion Leicester LE18 2AH Number of complaints: 1 Date: 27 May 2009 Media: Leaflet Sector: Health and beauty Ad A leaflet for Wigstion Alternative Treatment Centre...
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Posted on July 20, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
This is another sceptic blog; The Lay Scientist who has put all the ASA decisions against chiropractic together. The bloggers can’t figure out why the GCC do not pursue these cases themselves. GCC chiropractic council members do not want to get their hands dirty and they started using ASA a few years...
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
Since the BCA got the decision in the libel case against Simon Singh two weeks ago Simons friends on his facebook profile have doubled to 4,500. Its one thing sceptics not liking chiropractic now they have a cause to rally around. “Simon Singhs use of the word Bogus”. The problem is not Simon...
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Posted on May 25, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
If there is not consensus within the chiropractic profession regarding what chiropractors are doing when they perform a chiropractic adjustment there will be lots more of these ASA findings. The chiropractic profession can thank GCC Chief Executive Margaret Coats for drawing to the ASA’s attention...
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Posted on November 23, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
The letter of complaint being sent to the GCC has been posted on ZENOs blog with a list of 524 chiropractors , their registration number and their websites. For fifteen years I tried to get chiropractors to work together and now chiropractic sceptics seem to be demonstrating how effective co-operation...
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Posted on June 08, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
Simon Perry is a chiropractic sceptic, his current focus is chiropractors making claims to treat asthma, colic and other diseases. He recently made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority about the General Chiropractic Council’s Patient Information Leaflet which has now gone through...
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Posted on October 08, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
I always suspected that the McTimoney association saw subluxation chiropractic as a flag of convenience, for GCC council member Christina Cunliffe to gain influence within the UCA and ICA and get McTimoney people elected onto the GCC. The spineless McTimoney statement deserves a place on the home page...
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Posted on June 09, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |
Complaints converge on chiropractors - June 15, 2009 At least two bloggers have taken credit for independently making hundreds of formal complaints against British chiropractors for false advertising. British chiropractors have drawn extra attention in the wake of a libel case brought by the British...
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Posted on June 16, 2009 by Richard Lanigan |