MEDICAL experts have called on Canberra to shut down a university chiropractic clinic aimed at children amid claims the theories behind the practice are "no better than witchcraft" and using it on children is akin to child abuse. More than…
For year people have been making vexatious cases against chiropractors. The five people who nominated me as a candidate for council all had vexatious complaints made against them that were dismissed. My favourite vexatious complaint was the one against Bridgit…
Having created this mess by not consulting the profession BCA leaders will put their head in the sand hoping the problem will go away. I suspect this is just the beginning rather than the end. Reading articles like Nick Cohen’s…
I read chiropractic sceptics Simon Sing and Andy Lewis have recently become parents. Simon anounced the birth by stating on Twitter, that if the baby had colic he would not be going to a chiropractor, I am interested to know…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The GCC are embracing the sceptic view of chiropractic. The only question is whether the UK chiropractic profession continue to roll over and pay the GCC to dismantle the chiropractic profession in the UK. I have no sympathy with the…
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…