Simon Singh Vs. British Chiropractic Association
science journalist Simon Singh is sued for defamation, in Britain downright ridiculous slander laws, the British Chiropractic Association. In an article in the British Guardian, com ; rra years, he warned of the chiropractor the useless and potentially dangerous treatments, which led to a chiropractor are sued him. They have not yet fallen, but it would at all have been no cases unless the well-known doubtful Judge Eady - well known to always take the side of the plaintiffs in defamation cases - determined that a single word: "bogus" had the meaning "deliberately deceptive" instead of "worthless" as the word in context obviously meant. In this single word hangs chiropractor's downfall.
Association of Sense about Science - with the main characters such as Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins and Ricky Gervais - has taken great interest in the issue because the atmosphere has the potential side effect of making it impossible to journalistic science reporting. It would potentially give quack ability to sue anyone who criticizes the fact that they treat people without knowing what they were doing. In other words, putting an effective gag on any challenge.
Today, July 29, 2009, Sense about Science has given permission to re-press article - minus the PhD sentence - in print and electronic media, including blogs. This is for the public to have a chance to share the information and form their own opinion - is simply: do not let the chiropractor the disgusting practice silence critical voices.
who perchance go to a chiropractor, and now feel singled out as stupid and gullible: do not do that. Chiropractors are good at making it appear that their treatments - which rests on zero science - is accepted by the medical community. They call themselves doctor often and welcome you in a white coat or medical-like getup. As Scientologists, they speak quietly about what they actually believe - and what the questionnaire is that all about. (Convince yourself that you need their treatment)
In my opinion, chiropractors are the same fucking shit that homeopsykopater, crystal-Mongon, Sesame Street who want to pour candle wax in the ear of you - you wonder why I invite you to read article.
Society for Research and Popular Education has made a Swedish translation for those who find it difficult to read in English.
idea is that in a short, sharp shock to make knowledge accessible to as many people as possible.
Since I'm not sure about the call for re-pressing also the translation and private blogs, I choose posting links to be sure.
One concern is that chiropractors are in principle think _samtliga_ body's disease originates in the spine is nonfunctional. Therefore, they claim they can "cure" (in print and advertising) and cure (when it's just you and the chiropractor in the room), things like deadly allergies and asthma in children by burner pocket to the spine.
addition to those in the worst case fooling people not to seek sensible treatment for potentially life-threatening condition, there are also a handful of documented cases where chiropractic treatment led to a lifetime of pain, paralysis - yes, even death.
The only thing they possibly had any success with a certain type of back pain - the problem is that an osteopath or a physiotherapist do it better, cheaper and performances rallt safer.
Dare refuse chiropractor - sit at least into what these pajsarna actually think first. And _aldrig_ treat a child with a chiropractor. Play around with your own health if you must, but give your children scientifically proven treatment.
Hint: if doctors can not cure, but just treat the child have the answer is not to go to a homeopath or chiropractor. Please take a second doctor. Read on and for new treatments. But do not take on the Muppet with the diluted water or the idiot with the vertebrae. The reason that they can promise to succeed where the doctor fails, that they are not held to as strict burden of proof by your doctor.
But they promise to cure, open, breaking the law against quackery in Sweden - note how they almost never say openly that they can heal, they always talk about that "cure" and lo ; seems you fill in the gaps. Then they rely on the placebo effect or the body's ability to heal.
I'll tell you one thing - I can also treat your illness. All I Act gory and meaning to improve it is to treat it. Although I do not work. Although I _vet_ that I do not work. Even if my "treatment" consists of having you sit with a poop hat on his head and whistling Colonel Bogey so Ä , R is a treat. More is not needed to get to take people's money.
Daniel David Palmer - chiropractic ancestor - meant, when he began developing his theories in the 1860s, in all seriousness that 99% of the human body, diseases could be cured by the correction of the spine. Despite this, he never heal either his own violent disposition, or their sons remarkable tendency to develop blåögon and criminal damage all the time.
