In July I quoted from the BCA members Newsletter “In Touch” when the President of the BCA Tony Metcalfe reassured members and advises them to keep the Simon Singh issue “in perspective”. He asked “how many of your patients are aware of what is going on? I can tell you that none of my patients have raised...
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 me explain what makes people healthy so sceptics could use their undoubted...
My scepticism about swine flu seems to have been well justified, I wrote a number of postings on it and was not surprised by the lack of sceptism from the CAM sceptics who have been well and truly brainwashed by “medical evidence”. I was thinking of them yesterday when my kids told me of...
CAM whingers attach way too much importance to the editor of the BMJs denouncement of the chiropractors plethora of evidence.They should remember that 100 years ago DD Palmer the founder of chiropractic had the sense to recognise the failings of an approach to health searching for chemical panaceas....
Sceptic Simon Perry made the following comment (in red) in relation to an amusing posting on Alun Salts blog: “It's been a good month for baiting morons in areas other than science. Jack of Kent first did it with a homeopath's legal knowledge, now the BCA on history. This post is not complete...
NHS hospital deaths rise on day junior doctors join wards , study finds The Guardian , Wednesday 23 September 2009 Sarah Boseley The NHS has its very own black Wednesday, when death rates go up by an average of 6% There is never a good time to have a heart attack, but the wise person afflicted with clogging...
For years I have been saying diagnosis is not an exact science and the General Chiropractic Council is wrong to expect chiropractors to commit to a medical diagnosis after the first visit. Vertebral Subluxation Complex leaves room for manoeuvre with the diagnosis but is not acceptable to the GCC. Action...
Sceptic asked in comments on the post I did on Aspirin . “Are you saying that chiropractors should discourage people from self-medicating, rather than making a comment about medication prescribed by a doctor”? The public should be free to make up their own minds about what works for them, and not rely...
Twenty years ago Doctors in the US did not have a good word to say about chiropractic now more are recognising that chiropractic is effective for back pain yet many chiropractors dismiss this as a medical conspiracy to restrict scope of practice. I don't believe the average GP is bothered about chiropractic...
Think tank: Costly libel suits are stifling science Simon Singhs article in the Sunday Times 14/6/09: Last year I published an article in The Guardian about chiropractors who claim to treat childhood conditions such as asthma, colic and ear infection. My views on that treatment clashed with those of...
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