tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75430072024-03-07T23:46:39.239+01:00Confessions of a Quackbuster<b>This blog deals with healthcare consumer protection, and is therefore about quackery, healthfraud, chiropractic, and other forms of so-Called "Alternative" Medicine (sCAM).</b>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comBlogger860125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1104704034836621592010-01-22T19:36:00.010+01:002013-03-04T17:07:08.817+01:00TABLE OF CONTENTS<table bgcolor="#ffcc66" border="1"><tbody>
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<b>Welcome to Confessions of a Quackbuster.</b><br />
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<b>I confess to being a skeptic who is concerned about healthcare, consumer protection, quackery, healthfraud, chiropractic quackery, and other forms of so-called "Alternative" Medicine.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>"Alternative" Medicine, Quackery, Health Fraud<br />The Other Side of the Coin</b></span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;"><i>"Skepticism is the first step toward truth."</i></span><br />- Denis Diderot</b></center>
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<b>Previously I had another website - The Quack-Files - which was hosted at Geocities. It was launched on Mar. 22, 2001. When Geocities was closed on Oct. 26, 2009, it quietly ceased to exist, along with outdated content. Now the former URL - http://www.quackfiles.com - redirects to this location.</b></center>
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<b>This Table of Contents is in chronological order, from bottom to top, just like this blog. To get the most benefit, just start at the bottom.<br /><br />Since "out of sight" usually means "out of mind", I consider archived blog entries to be pretty much useless to people who browse blogs. That's why I have chosen to place a complete Table of Contents right up front.<br /><br />You can use Google's <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/">Toolbar</a> to search this page. To see the newest entries in the sidebar to the right, you should <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/"><b>refresh</b></a> the site first.<br /><br /><b>Blog status</b><br /><br />This blog is rather neglected and in some cases may not be up to date. Consider it an information archive and use accordingly. I have not been actively dealing with these matters for several years. My choice of blog title isn't because I have ever been a real "quackbuster", but because I was accused of being such, and I took that as a compliment, especially considering the source of the criticism. The critic is a promoter of quackery, and is thus against quackbusters whose anti-quackery efforts expose him and his clients, many of whom have been convicted in courts of law for fraud, malpractice, and/or unscientific practices. Obviously the double negative "<i>anti anti</i>-quackery" implies that my critic is <i>for</i> quackery. I'd much rather be considered as being <i>against</i> quackery than <i>for</i> it.<br /><br />There are nearly a thousand entries here, with very little of it written by myself. If you have an issue with something, take it up with the author or quoted sources, not me. If you find something you consider to be libelous or otherwise illegal, by all means contact me. Be very specific about which words you find objectionable. Maybe I can somehow contact the author and warn them, and maybe even be lucky enough to get it changed!<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 130%;"><i>If I have not been contacted and given fair warning, I cannot be held liable.</i></span></b><br /><br /><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/">HOME</a><br /><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/table-of-contents.html">TABLE OF CONTENTS</a><br /><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/chiropractic-index-to-all-entries-here.html">CHIROPRACTIC INDEX</a> to all entries here</b></td></tr>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>FILMS YOU MUST SEE!</b><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-see-dangers-of-chiropractic.html"><b>DANGERS OF CHIROPRACTIC THERAPY</b><br />Manipulation of the cervical spine: risks and benefits</a></span></span></span><b><br /><span style="color: red;">SEE THEM WHILE YOU CAN!</span></b></center>
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2010/01/uk-doctor-scientist-leading-debate-on.html">UK doctor-scientist leading the debate on alternative modalities</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2010/01/does-chiropractic-work.html">Does Chiropractic Work?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/11/young-mom-dies-after-chiropractic.html">Young Mom Dies After a Chiropractic Adjustment: Is "chiropractic stroke" to blame?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/11/kimkins-notice-of-pendency-of-class.html">Kimkins - Notice of Pendency of Class Notice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/09/brief-expositions-of-rational-medicine.html">Brief Expositions of Rational Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/06/simonsinghnet.html">SimonSingh.net</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/06/chirocopalypse-british-chiropractors.html">Chirocopalypse: British chiropractors running scared </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/05/hot-air-balloon.html">Hot Air Balloon</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/02/homeopathy-is-worse-than-witchcraft-and.html">Homeopathy is worse than witchcraft - and the NHS must stop paying for it</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/01/yelp-user-faces-lawsuit-over-negative.html">Yelp User Faces Lawsuit Over Negative Review of Chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2008/10/beware-spinal-trap-simon-singh.html">Beware the spinal trap - Simon Singh</a> "Forbidden" article<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-status.html">Blog status</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/dead-patients-estate-sues-chiropractor.html">Dead patient's estate sues chiropractor & others</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/postage-stamp-honors-crusader-against.html">Postage Stamp Honors Crusader Against Chiropractic Malpractice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/voca-unveils-chiropractic-malpractice.html">VOCA Unveils Chiropractic Malpractice Postage Stamp..</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/07/interesting-observations-from.html">Interesting observations from a chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/06/dr-heimlichs-new-maneuver.html">Dr. Heimlich's New 'Maneuver'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/10/eva-cassidy-singing-over-rainbow.html">Eva Cassidy singing Over the Rainbow</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/10/astronomy-putting-things-in.html">Astronomy: Putting things in perspective!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/09/grander-water-esoteric-humbug.html">Grander water: "Esoteric humbug"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/01/review-of-energy-medicine-scientific.html">A review of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis - by Harriett Hall, MD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/01/chiro-book-what-chiropractors-dont.html">Chiro book: What Chiropractors Don't Want You to Know About Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/quackbusters-inc-hot-on-heels-of.html">Quackbusters Inc.: Hot On The Heels Of Medical Hucksters</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/doing-least-to-save-your-life-david.html">Doing The Least To Save Your Life - David Federlein</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/priceless-banned-commercials.html">Priceless! Banned commercials.....</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/healthy-skepticism-international-news.html">Healthy Skepticism International News Alert</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/global-trend-more-science-more-fraud.html">Global Trend: More Science, More Fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/macho-response-writes-about.html">The Macho Response writes about Therapeutic Touch</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/professor-condemns-therapies.html">Professor condemns therapies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/spinal-manipulation-for-headache.html">Spinal manipulation for headache disorders</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/professor-savages-homeopathy-and.html">Professor savages homeopathy (and chiropractic)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiroplot-scheme-to-scam-competition.html">ChiroPlot: the scheme to scam the competition.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/appeals-court-overturns-adverse.html">Appeals Court Overturns Adverse District Court Ruling in American Chiropractic Association Lawsuit against HHS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/become-effective-chiropractic-speaker.html">BECOME AN EFFECTIVE CHIROPRACTIC SPEAKER</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/please-release-me-let-me-go-mfr.html">Please Release Me, Let Me Go (MFR)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/massage-brittany.html">Massage Brittany</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/informed-consent-chiro-style.html">Informed Consent ..... Chiro Style</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/economics-of-vaccination.html">Economics of vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/thimerosal-information-needs.html">Thimerosal information needs clarification</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractic-footbath-cures-everything.html">Chiropractic Footbath cures everything</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractor-and-his-patient.html">The Chiropractor and His Patient</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/manipulable-lesion-chiropractic-rose.html">The Manipulable Lesion -- A Chiropractic Rose By Any Other Name (Part 2)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/kinsinger-letter-chiropractic-at.html">Kinsinger Letter - chiropractic at University of Alberta</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/seven-stages-of-chiropractic_04.html">The Seven Stages of Chiropractic Deprogramming - Part 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/revolutionary-marketing-tips-for.html">Revolutionary Marketing Tips for Chiropractic Professionals</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/seven-stages-of-chiropractic.html">The Seven Stages of Chiropractic Deprogramming</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractic-neck-manipulation-can.html">Chiropractic neck manipulation can cause injury or death -- video</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/swift-december-2-2005.html">SWIFT December 2, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/whats-so-bad-about-chiropractic.html">What's so bad about chiropractic education?"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/three-cortislim-defendants-to-give-up.html">Three Cortislim Defendants to Give up $4.5 Million in Cash and Other Assets</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/feds-crack-down-on-bogus-weight-loss.html">Feds crack down on bogus weight loss products</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/behind-veil-muslim-woman-speaks-out.html">Behind the Veil: A Muslim Woman Speaks Out</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/from-tapes-chilling-voice-of-islamic.html">From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/health-canada-warning-consumers-not-to.html">Health Canada Warning Consumers Not To Take Chinese Medicine 'Shortclean'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/james-randis-swift-november-18-2005.html">James Randi's SWIFT November 18, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/whats-new-robert-l-park-friday-18-nov.html">WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 18 Nov 05</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/couple-free-on-bond-following-split.html">Couple free on bond following split verdict in child neglect case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-google-tamed-ads-on-wild-wild-web.html">How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/risks-and-benefits-of-ddt-from-lancet.html">Risks and Benefits of DDT (from the Lancet)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/green-medicine-event-concludes-in-cuba.html">Green Medicine Event Concludes in Cuba</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/spinal-manipulation-its-safety-is.html">Spinal manipulation: Its safety is uncertain</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/cuba-demonstrates-its-unscientific.html">Cuba Demonstrates Its (un)Scientific Expertise in Natural Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-46.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-46</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-45.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-45</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/teacher-charged-with-mocking-religion.html">Teacher Charged With Mocking Religion Sentenced to Jail</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/don-urges-fg-to-enact-law-against.html">Don urges FG to enact law against quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/kevin-trudeau-hires-pi-to-dig-dirt-on.html">Kevin Trudeau Hires PI to Dig Dirt on ERA</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/chiropractors-marketing-techniques.html">Chiropractor's Marketing Techniques Probed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/manipulable-lesion-chiropractic-rose.html">The Manipulable Lesion -- A Chiropractic Rose By Any Other Name (Part 1)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/lack-of-herbal-supplement.html">Lack of herbal supplement characterization in published randomized controlled trials</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/doctors-suspension-overturned.html">Doctor's suspension overturned</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/ruling-due-monday-on-chiropractors.html">Ruling due Monday on chiropractor's license</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/demonizing-drugmakers.html">Demonizing Drugmakers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/ozzy-osbournes-lyrics.html">Ozzy Osbourne's Lyrics</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/quackery-or-cure-questioning.html">Quackery or Cure: Questioning Alternative Therapies Debate Forum</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/cross-border-fraud-ftc-press-room.html">Cross Border Fraud - FTC Press Room</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/two-caught-selling-fake-cancer-remedy.html">Two caught selling fake cancer remedy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/breast-massage-not-standard.html">Breast massage not standard [chiropractic] care -- expert</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/health-food-store-hosts-vitamin.html">Health food store hosts vitamin advocate (Earl L. Mindell)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-44.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-44</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-43.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-43</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-42.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-42</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/consumer-health-digest-05-41.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-41</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/vaccines-vital-to-health.html">Vaccines Vital To Health</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/merck-prevails-in-second-vioxx-case-on.html">Merck Prevails in Second Vioxx Case on Heart Attack</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/daughter-wants-answers-about-death-of.html">Daughter Wants Answers About Death of Mother</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/red-hot-blogs-of-day.html">Red Hot Blogs of the Day</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/revisions-to-dangers-of-chiropractic.html">Revisions to "Dangers of chiropractic therapy"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/government-reverses-physiotherapy.html">Government reverses physiotherapy delisting</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/google-found-to-be-testing-classified.html">Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/class-action-lawsuit-against-canadian.html">CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CANADIAN CHIROPRACTIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BEING PLANNED BY THE ADVOCACY GROUP FAMILIES AGAINST ABUSIVE CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/kylie-denies-holistic-claim.html">Kylie denies holistic claim</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/kylie-minogue-slams-holistic-press.html">Kylie Minogue Slams 'Holistic' Press Lies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/kylie-denies-alternative-therapy-claim.html">Kylie denies alternative therapy claim</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/boom-and-bust-supplements-tough-for.html">Boom and bust: Supplements tough for pro leagues</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/curing-jamie-handley.html">Curing Jamie Handley</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/black-cohosh-no-better-than-placebo.html">Black cohosh no better than placebo against hot flushes, finds new trial</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/case-of-fatal-neck-adjustment.html">The Case of the Fatal Neck Adjustment</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/mmr-vaccine-is-safe-international-team.html">MMR Vaccine is Safe, International Team Affirms</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/alternative-med-finds-way-to-medical.html">Alternative med finds way to medical school curricula</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/mmr-in-clear-over-autism.html">MMR in clear over autism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/mmr-is-safe-what-other-scare-stories.html">The MMR is safe - what other scare stories are nonsense?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/good-medicine-homeopathic-board-needs.html">Good medicine: Homeopathic board needs a physical - just in case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/dr-internet-exasperating-to-mds.html">‘Dr. Internet’ exasperating to MDs</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/ex-santana-employee-sues-over-firing.html">Ex-Santana Employee Sues Over Firing</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/music-imagery-touch-and-prayer-as.html">Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/natural-healer-charged-with-fraud-john.html">'Natural healer' charged with fraud (John E. Curran)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/viewpoint-what-is-best-and-most.html">Viewpoint: what is the best and most ethical model for the relationship between mainstream and alternative medicine: opposition, integration, or plura</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/4-amish-children-in-minn-infected-with.html">4 Amish children in Minn. infected with polio virus</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/bird-flu-new-scientist-articles.html">Bird Flu: New Scientist articles</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/degree-of-doubt-for-berties-boffin.html">Degree of doubt for Bertie's boffin</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/faith-healers-and-physicians-teaching.html">Faith Healers and Physicians - Teaching Pseudoscience by Mandate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/aap-vaccine-researchers-preach-to.html">AAP: Vaccine Researchers Preach to Pediatrician Choir</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/academia-embraces-spooky-studies.html">Academia Embraces Spooky Studies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/help-lasagnes-out-to-get-me.html">Help, lasagne's out to get me</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/be-careful-what-doctor-may-have.html">Be careful what the doctor may have ordered</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/doctor-licensing-under-scrutiny.html">Doctor licensing under scrutiny</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/first-aid-video-humor.html">First Aid Video - humor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/harvard-health-letter-survey-shows.html">Harvard Health Letter Survey Shows Harvard Doctors Practice What They Preach</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/guinness-noitulove-thats-evolution.html">Guinness noitulovE (that's Evolution backwards)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/gp-who-gave-mmr-warning-faces-sack.html">GP who gave MMR warning faces sack</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/homeopath-patients-death-debated.html">Homeopath patient's death debated despite Ariz. board clearing doctor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/critics-seek-audit-of-homeopathy-board.html">Critics seek audit of homeopathy board</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/should-medical-students-be-taught.html">Should medical students be taught about CAM?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/arabian-sex-tourism.html">Arabian Sex Tourism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/oh-what-tangled-web-is-being-woven-on.html">Oh, what a tangled web is being woven on the BBC health site</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/ronnie-barker-on-pismronunciation.html">Ronnie Barker on Pismronunciation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/experts-unlock-clues-to-spread-of-1918.html">Experts Unlock Clues to Spread of 1918 Flu Virus</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/nhs-should-pin-hopes-on-alternative.html">NHS should pin hopes on alternative remedies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/google-earth.html">Google Earth</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/victims-of-chiropractic-contracts.html">Victims of "chiropractic contracts"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/complementary-medicine-study-hit-by.html">Complementary medicine study hit by credibility row</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/charles-study-backs-nhs-therapies.html">Charles study backs NHS therapies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/yemen-battles-polio-again.html">Yemen battles polio -- again</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/skeptical-eye-leon-jaroff.html">The Skeptical Eye - Leon Jaroff</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/end-of-homeopathy-leon-jaroff.html">The End of Homeopathy? - Leon Jaroff</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/consumer-health-digest-05-40.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-40</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/naturopathy-bill-draws-opposition.html">Naturopathy bill draws opposition</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/class-action-sought-for-dr-phil-diet.html">Class action sought for 'Dr. Phil' diet suit</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/whats-up-e-doc.html">What's up, e-doc?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/attachment-therapy-news-oct-5-2005.html">Attachment Therapy News: Oct. 5, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/search-chiropractor-quackery-or-not.html">Search: chiropractor quackery or not</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/mothers-denial-daughters-death.html">A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death (Maggiore)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/natural-cures-book-is-it-truth-or-is.html">'Natural Cures' book: Is it the truth or is it quackery?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/trashing-trudeau-saving-america.html">Trashing Trudeau, saving America</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/chimp-no-longer-has-monkey-on-his-back.html">Chimp no longer has monkey on his back</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/washington-posts-mensa-invitational.html">The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/pox-parties-pooh-poohed.html">'Pox Parties' Pooh-Poohed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/new-childrens-vaccine-targets-4.html">New Children's Vaccine Targets 4 Diseases</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/kids-vaccines-no-link-to-unrelated.html">Kids' Vaccines: No Link to Unrelated Diseases</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/vaccination-delays-put-many-children.html">Vaccination Delays Put Many Children at Risk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/pediatricians-would-dismiss-families.html">Pediatricians Would Dismiss Families Who Refuse Vaccinations</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/stupid-terrorists.html">Stupid Terrorists</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/clinic-told-to-repay-700000-to.html">Clinic told to repay $700,000 to patients (Monte Kline)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/spam-from-african-girl-sullyurgent.html">*SPAM* FROM AFRICAN GIRL SULLY(URGENT)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/sports-drink-for-children-is-jangling.html">A Sports Drink for Children Is Jangling Some Nerves</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/consumer-health-digest-05-398.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-398</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/whats-new-robert-l-park-friday-30-sep.html">WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 30 Sep 05</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/brights-bulletin-29-september-30-2005.html">The Brights' Bulletin #29 - September 30, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/quack-files-keywords.html">Quack-Files: Keywords</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/dangerous-witchdoctoring.html">Dangerous Witchdoctoring</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/download-internet-here.html">Download the Internet here</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/ease-strain-on-neck.html">Ease the strain on the neck</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/its-enough-to-make-you-sick.html">It's Enough to Make You Sick</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/blogging-psst-want-to-know-my-net.html">BLOGGING: Psst: Want to Know My Net Worth?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/experts-savage-oxygen-booster.html">Experts savage oxygen booster</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/skeptics-prize-goes-to-education-group.html">Skeptics' prize goes to education group</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/web-of-faith-law-and-science-in.html">A Web of Faith, Law and Science in Evolution Suit</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/nih-study-takes-another-look-at.html">NIH Study Takes Another Look At Vitamin C and Cancer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/speakout-state-ignores-naturopaths.html">Speakout: State ignores naturopaths' 'quackery'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/cancer-cures-are-empty-promises-in.html">Cancer ‘cures’ are empty promises in Kevin Trudeau’s ‘Natural Cures’ book</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/monkey-see-monkey-do-not.html">Monkey See, Monkey Do (not)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/battling-encephalitis-with-hopeand.html">Battling encephalitis with hope...and homeopathy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/site-referrals-entry-pages.html">Site referrals: entry pages</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/site-referrals.html">Site referrals</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/site-referrals-mucoid-plaque.html">Site referrals: mucoid plaque</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/death-of-dd-palmer-attempted-murder-by.html">The Death of DD Palmer: Attempted Murder by His Son?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/fup-eller-fakta-om-kosttilskud.html">Fup eller fakta om kosttilskud</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/foundations-of-chiropractic-2nd.html">Foundations of Chiropractic, 2nd Edition - Subluxation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/stage-show-brings-back-evas-talents.html">Stage show brings back Eva's talents</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/against-odds-kevin-trudeau-still-king.html">Against odds, Kevin Trudeau still king of late-night infomercial pitchmen</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/free-denver-conference-on-quackery.html">Free Denver Conference on Quackery: Sept 21</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/crank-o-day-anticrank.html">Crank o' the Day (anticrank)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/narconon-is-bad-news-for-customers.html">NarConon Is Bad News for Customers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/misleading-and-absurd-neaclear.html">Misleading and absurd ( Neaclear skincare product)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/subluxation-dogma-or-science.html">Subluxation: dogma or science?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/think-for-self-interview-with-stephen.html">Think for Self (interview with Stephen Barrett)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/steadily-plans-increase-coverage-of.html">Steadily, Plans Increase Coverage of Unorthodox Medical Therapies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/darwin-awards-mottos.html">Darwin Awards Mottos</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/eliane-duvekot-artist-extraordinaire.html">Eliane Duvekot, Artist Extraordinaire</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/why-charles-just-cant-quit-snake-oil.html">Why Charles just can't quit the snake oil</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/echinacea-fails-to-treat-or-prevent.html">Echinacea fails to treat or prevent colds in study</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/best-seller-natural-cures-sparks-court.html">Best-seller ‘Natural Cures’ sparks court battle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/study-says-homeopathic-medicines-dont.html">Study says homeopathic medicines don’t work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/echinacea-and-cold.html">Echinacea and the cold</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/vitamin-c-and-common-cold.html">Vitamin C and the common cold</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/more-junk-science-debunked.html">More junk science debunked</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/homoeopathy-does-not-work.html">Homoeopathy 'does not work'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/lancet-research-labelled-biased.html">Lancet research labelled biased</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/homeopathy-no-better-than-placebo.html">Homeopathy no better than placebo</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/homeopathy-ineffective-study-finds.html">Homeopathy ineffective, study finds</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/study-casts-doubt-on-homeopathic-cures.html">Study Casts Doubt on Homeopathic Cures</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/lancet-study-says-homeopathic.html">Lancet study says homeopathic medicines don't work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/christopher-cain-spinal-claims-have-no.html">Christopher Cain: Spinal claims have no backbone</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/silly-nigerian-scam-letters-2.html">Silly Nigerian Scam Letters: 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/silly-nigerian-scam-letters-1.html">Silly Nigerian Scam Letters: 1</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/concepts-and-future-of-chiropractic_27.html">Concepts and The Future of Chiropractic. Fraud & Abuse</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/whats-new-robert-l-park-friday-26-aug.html">WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 26 Aug 05</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/homeopathys-benefit-questioned.html">Homeopathy's benefit questioned</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/effects-of-homeopathy-are-all-in-mind.html">Effects of homeopathy 'are all in the mind'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/as-fourth-study-says-its-no-better.html">As a fourth study says it's no better than a placebo, is this the end for homeopathy?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/fault-line-in-organic-debate.html">The fault line in the organic debate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/study-homeopathy-drugs-dont-work.html">Study: Homeopathy Drugs Don't Work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/medics-attack-use-of-homeopathy.html">Medics attack use of homeopathy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/any-homeopathy-benefit-attributed-to.html">Any Homeopathy Benefit Attributed to Placebo Effect</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/autistic-boy-5-dies-after-disputed.html">Autistic boy, 5, dies after disputed therapy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/chiropractic-expert-witnesses.html">Chiropractic Expert Witnesses</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/vioxx-whos-responsible.html">Vioxx: Who's Responsible?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/consumer-health-digest-05-34.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-34</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/prince-attacked-for-secret-health.html">Prince attacked for secret health study</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-gets-better-whats-up-with-that.html">Google Gets Better. What's Up With That?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/age-old-cures-like-maggot-get-us.html">Age-Old Cures, Like the Maggot, Get U.S. Hearing</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/intelligent-design-and-informed-debate.html">Intelligent Design and Informed Debate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/concepts-and-future-of-chiropractic.html">Concepts and The Future of Chiropractic. Fraud & Abuse</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/is-henry-j-heimlich-md-fraud.html">Is Henry J. Heimlich MD a fraud?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/keyword-analysis-august-24-2005.html">Keyword Analysis - August 24, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/closing-book-kevin-trudeau.html">Closing the book (Kevin Trudeau)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/hrh-charles-prince-of-quacks-exposed.html">HRH Charles, <b>"Prince of Quacks"</b>, exposed in the blogosphere</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/life-universitys-new-advertising.html">Life University's new advertising campaign</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/pinch-of-salt-with-some-supplements.html">A Pinch of Salt with Some Supplements</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/prince-charles-promotes-quackery.html">Prince Charles Promotes Quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/legislate-to-warn-public-that-neck.html">Legislate to Warn Public that Neck Manipulation can cause a Stroke -</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/passed-100-thousand-mark.html">Passed the 100 thousand mark!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/abc-news-anti-vaccine-sentiment.html">ABC News: Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Plagues Nigeria</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/canadian-orthopractic-manual-therapy.html">Canadian Orthopractic Manual Therapy Association Guidelines</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/anti-quackbuster-champion-needs-info.html">Anti-'quackbuster' champion needs info</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/baptist-ponders-adding-focus-on.html">Baptist ponders adding focus on alternative care</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/internet-trial-questions-herbal.html">Internet Trial Questions Herbal Remedies for Anxiety and Insomnia</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/online-eva-cassidy-trumps-elvis.html">Online, Eva Cassidy Trumps Elvis</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/globules-against-bioterror.html">Globules against bioterror</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/karl-popper-seminar-rafe-champion.html">Karl Popper seminar - Rafe Champion</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/greek-tragedy-stephanie-kleins-blog.html">Greek Tragedy: Stephanie Klein's blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/tahitian-noni-juice-world-wide-warning.html">TAHITIAN NONI ® JUICE: World Wide Warning</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/kennedy-admits-hes-not-qualified-to.html">Kennedy admits he's not qualified to talk about vaccines or autism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/toast-to-saint-nate.html">A Toast to Saint Nate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/thirteenth-meeting-of-skeptics-circle.html">The Thirteenth Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/flying-spaghetti-monster-created.html">A Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/health-scan-chemical-in-hashish.html">Health Scan: A chemical in hashish inhibits cancer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/govt-finally-closes-st-luke.html">Gov't Finally Closes St. Luke</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/critical-thinking-about-research-book.html">Critical Thinking About Research - book review</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/aetna-uncovers-plot-to-intimidate.html">Aetna uncovers plot to intimidate dental licensing boards</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/no-vaccine-autism-link-parents-are.html">No Vaccine-Autism Link, Parents Are Told</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-never-said-i-could-cure-cancer-says.html">I never said I could cure cancer, says 'therapist'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/keyword-analysis.html">Keyword analysis</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/kerre-woodham-hostility-to-jab-hard-to.html">Kerre Woodham: Hostility to jab hard to fathom</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-on-acshorg-website-friday-july-15.html">New on the acsh.org Website - Friday, July 15, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/seventeen-questions.html">Seventeen Questions</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/prayer-wont-help-sick.html">Prayer 'won't help sick'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/schwarzenegger-to-be-paid-8-million-by.html">Schwarzenegger to Be Paid $8 Million by Fitness Magazines</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/subluxation-awareness-week.html">Subluxation Awareness Week</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/amazoncom-10th-anniversary-hall-of.html">Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame musicians</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/consumer-health-digest-05-28.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-28</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/vitamin-e-may-not-prevent-heart.html">Vitamin E May Not Prevent Heart Disease or Cancer in Healthy Women</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/protandim.html">Protandim</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/ephedra-death-case-settled-for-almost.html">Ephedra Death Case Settled for Almost $1 Million by Nutraquest Inc. and Four Other Companies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/tale-of-raw-prawn-humor.html">A tale of a raw prawn (humor)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/skeptic-and-anti-quackery-web-rings.html">Skeptic and Anti-Quackery Web Rings</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/submission-to-medicines-australia.html">Submission to Medicines Australia Review of the Code of Conduct</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/tahitian-noni-juice-scam.html">Tahitian Noni Juice scam</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/peta-blogging.html">PeTA blogging</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-therapy-for-neck-pain-may.html">Chiropractic Therapy for Neck Pain May Have High Rate of Adverse Reactions</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/candy-makers-target-fitness-market.html">Candy makers target fitness market</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-anti-vaccination-parents.html">Chiropractic anti-vaccination: Parents sue when player is benched</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/seven-warning-signs-of-bogus-science.html">The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/whats-new-robert-l-park-friday-8-jul.html">WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 8 Jul 05</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-terrorism-british-covenant-of.html">[London Terrorism:] British "Covenant of Security" with Islamists Ends</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/jab-campaigns-use-fear-tactics-says.html">Jab campaigns use 'fear tactics' says expert</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/fsu-college-of-chiropractic-is-bad.html">FSU 'College of Chiropractic' is a bad idea by Terry A. Rondberg,<br /><br />DC, WCA President</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-77-bombings-terrorists-strike.html">London 7/7 Bombings: Terrorists Strike Again</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/science-of-life-evolving-or-revolving.html">Science of life evolving or revolving?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/scientology-at-saloncom_07.html">Scientology at Salon.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/blogging-boom.html">Blogging boom</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/whats-new-robert-l-park-friday-24-jun.html">WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 24 Jun 05 Washington, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/healthfactsandfearscom.html">HealthFactsAndFears.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/acupuncture-equal-to-sham-in-reducing.html">Acupuncture equal to sham in reducing migraines</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/wheres-evidence-marcia-angell.html">Where's the Evidence? - Marcia Angell interview</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/shields-blasts-cruise-for-rant.html">Shields blasts Cruise for 'rant'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-italian-health-minister-endorses.html">New Italian Health Minister endorses quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/astrologist-sues-nasa-over-comet-crash.html">Astrologist sues NASA over comet crash</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/agents-probing-hormone-shipment.html">Agents probing hormone shipment</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/shaky-science-experts-question-anthrax.html">Shaky science: Experts question anthrax lotion (Bio-Germ)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/comment-regarding-andrew-weils.html"><span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="color: cyan;"><span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="color: cyan;"><span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="color: cyan;">Comment</span></span></span> regarding Andrew Weil’s comments in Think Tank</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/doctor-arrested-in-fraud-investigation.html">Doctor arrested in fraud investigation (Ravi Devgan)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/protandim-claims-debunked.html">Protandim claims debunked</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/doctor-proud-to-bust-medical-quacks.html">Doctor proud to bust medical 'quacks'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/herbs-and-hysteria.html">Herbs and hysteria</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/pro-adjuster-quackery.html">Pro-Adjuster quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-department-of-education-data-on.html">US Department of Education Data on "Autism" Are Not Reliable for Tracking Autism Prevalence</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/genesis-revisited-scientific-creation.html">Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/scientists-hail-einsteins-theory-100.html">Scientists hail Einstein's theory 100 years on</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/aetna-countersues-bogus-device.html">Aetna Countersues Bogus Device Promoters</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-believe-childhood-vaccine.html">Don't believe the childhood vaccine fearmongers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/vaccination-house-md-tv-series.html">Vaccination: House MD. TV series</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/brights-bulletin-26-june-29-2005.html">The Brights' Bulletin #26 June 29, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/bs-t-shirts.html">BS! T-Shirts</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/survey-many-believe-cancer-myths.html">Survey: Many believe cancer myths</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/sticking-pins-in-homeopathy.html">Sticking Pins In Homeopathy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-ministry-rejects-claims-vaccine.html">Health Ministry rejects claims vaccine data 'falsified'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/media-stirs-up-faux-vaccine.html">Media stirs up faux vaccine controversy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/new-wine-for-seniors-humor.html">A new wine for seniors (humor)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/many-believe-cancer-myths.html">Many Believe Cancer Myths</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/adjustments-and-manipulations-are-not.html">Adjustments and manipulations are not the same</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/quackery-in-chiropractic.html">Quackery in Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/experts-reject-some-therapies.html">Experts Reject Some Therapies</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/11th-meeting-of-skeptics-circle.html">The 11th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-orders-chiropractor-to-halt.html">Health orders chiropractor to halt live blood analysis tests</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/taxpayers-overbilled-for-chiropractic.html">Taxpayers Overbilled for Chiropractic Work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/are-chiropractors-necessary.html">Are chiropractors necessary?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/adverts-inform-parents-on-vaccine.html">Adverts inform parents on vaccine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/man-who-allegedly-claimed-to-be-doctor.html">Man Who Allegedly Claimed To Be Doctor Gets Suspension</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/healthfactsandfearscombulletin-royal.html">[HealthFactsAndFearscomBulletin] Royal Society v Lancet,radiation madness, more</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/anti-aging-doctors-sue-professors.html">Anti-Aging Doctors Sue Professors</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/polite-request-to-creationists.html">Polite request to creationists</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/professor-sued-over-anti-aging.html">Professor sued over anti-aging comments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/psychic-surgeon-claims-to-remove.html">'Psychic surgeon' claims to remove patients' tumors without surgery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/crucified-nun-dies-in-exorcism.html">Crucified nun dies in 'exorcism'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/scaremongering-lancet-accused-of.html">'Scaremongering' Lancet accused of causing harm to health and wasting millions</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/scientific-method-critical-and.html">The Scientific Method - Critical and Creative Thinking</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/effect-of-real-and-sham-acupuncture-on.html">The effect of real and sham acupuncture on thermal sensation and thermal pain thresholds.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/update-from-american-council-on.html">Update from the American Council on Science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractic-anti-vaccination.html">Chiropractic Anti-Vaccination Arguments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/discussion-lists-forums-and-webrings.html">Discussion Lists, Forums, and Webrings</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/characteristic-symptoms-of.html">Characteristic Symptoms of Pathological Science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/moral-and-religious-duty-of.html">The Moral and Religious Duty of a Chiropractor - D. D. Palmer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/red-meat-linked-to-cancer-risk.html">Red meat 'linked to cancer risk'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/fraud-in-mddc-arena.html">Fraud in the MD/DC Arena</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/psychic-surgeon-heel-not-healer-police.html">'Psychic surgeon' a heel, not a healer, police say</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/disease-babys-dad-lashes-vaccine-hate.html">Disease baby’s dad lashes vaccine 'hate-speech'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractor-defends-terrorist-suspect.html">Chiropractor defends terrorist suspect</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-care-heretic-blog-by-larry.html">Health Care Heretic: blog by Larry Wyatt, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/new-chiropractic-blog-gary-knutson-dc.html">New chiropractic blog: Gary A. Knutson, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/fda-finds-online-discount-drug-fraud.html">FDA finds online discount drug fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/schiavo-autopsy-says-brain-withered.html">Schiavo Autopsy Says Brain, Withered, Was Untreatable</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/power-therapies-and-possible-threats.html">Power Therapies and possible threats to the science of psychology and psychiatry</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/this-is-why-chiropractors-are-upset.html">This Is Why .... Chiropractors Are Upset With This Site</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/h2o-system-pure-quackery.html">H2O system pure 'quackery'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/fighting-polio-one-child-at-time.html">Fighting polio, one child at a time</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/talk-on-autism-in-eugene-oregon.html">Talk on Autism in Eugene, Oregon</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/countless-studies-have-cleared.html">Countless studies have cleared fluoridation beyond doubt</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/sceptics-guide-to-alternative-health.html">A sceptic's guide to alternative health - talk by Clare Bowerman</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractors-v-vaccination.html">Chiropractors v. Vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/twin-religions-communism-and-roman.html">The Twin Religions: Communism and Roman Catholicism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/vaguely-speaking-its-all-written-in.html">Vaguely speaking, it's all written in the stars</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/just-give-me-that-old-time-atheism.html">Just give me that old-time atheism! - Salman Rushdie</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/doctor-faces-charges-of-fraud-john-e.html">"Doctor" faces charges of fraud (John E. Curran)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/hodgkins-returns-to-girl-whose-parents.html">Hodgkin's Returns to Girl Whose Parents Fought State</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/good-stories-bad-science-guide-for.html">Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of "Consumer Activist" Groups</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-group-advises-more-skepticism.html">Health Group Advises More Skepticism About Activists’ Health Claims</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/10th-skeptics-circle_11.html">10th Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/dr-jim-bowen-on-nutra-sweet-politricks.html">Dr Jim bowen on Nutra Sweet politricks</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/no-proof-detoxing-diets-work.html">'No proof' detoxing diets work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-by-natural-causes.html">Death by Natural Causes</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-department-shuts-down.html">Health Department Shuts Down Unlicensed Doctor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/ghost-therapy-lands-couple-behind-bars.html">'Ghost therapy' lands couple behind bars</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/web-sites-celebrate-deadly-thinness.html">Web Sites Celebrate a Deadly Thinness</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/no-miracle-cure-for-junk-science.html">No miracle cure for junk science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/horror-autotoxicus-boosting-immune.html">Horror Autotoxicus: Boosting the immune system</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/healing-outside-box.html">Healing outside the box</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/tenth-skeptics-circle-hosted-by.html">Tenth Skeptics' Circle, hosted by Skeptico</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/ten-liesdebunked-james-r-laidler-md.html">Ten Lies.....debunked - James R. Laidler, MD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/god-existswe-are-immune-to-rational.html">God exists.....We are immune to rational argument.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/effectiveness-evidence-cornerstones-of.html">Effectiveness & Evidence: The Cornerstones of Modern Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/memory-of-water-paul-lee-pt.html">The Memory of Water</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/ten-liesdebunked-robert-s-baratz-md.html">Ten Lies.....debunked - Robert S. Baratz, MD, PhD, DDS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/ten-lies-about-health-your-doctor.html">Ten Lies About Health Your Doctor Taught You</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/bless-me-blog-for-ive-sinned.html">Bless Me, Blog, for I've Sinned</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/march-of-unreason.html">The March Of Unreason</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/ten-great-public-health-achievements.html">Ten Great Public Health Achievements -- United States, 1900-1999</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/experts-condemn-anti-fluoride-claims.html">Experts condemn anti-fluoride claims</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/dental-health-fails-study.html">Dental health fails: study</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/complementary-and-alternative-medicine.html">Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Why is Conventional Medicine Not Enough?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/alternative-medicine-catches-cold.html">Alternative medicine catches a cold</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/your-book-about-max-letter-to-amy.html">Your book about Max: Letter to Amy Lansky</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/final-word-on-nutrition-and-health.html">The final word on nutrition and health</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/referring-web-pages.html">Referring Web Pages</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-taxes-work-humor.html">How Taxes Work . . . (humor)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/off-list-and-4yeo.html">OFF-LIST and 4YEO!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-treatment-of-neck-can-be.html">Chiropractic treatment of the neck can be a risk factor for stroke</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-tied-to-rare-strokes.html">Chiropractic Tied to Rare Strokes</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/stopping-contagion.html">Stopping a contagion</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/ninth-edition-of-skeptics-circle.html">Ninth edition of The Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/conspiracy-theory-spreads-polio.html">A Conspiracy Theory Spreads Polio</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/scientific-look-at-alternative.html">A Scientific Look at Alternative Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/copelands-cure-medicine-show.html">'Copeland's Cure': Medicine Show (homeopathy)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/special-sat-edition-to-conform-to-new.html">Special SAT Edition to Conform to New Kansas State Board of Education Requirements</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractors-distort-info-negative-to.html">Chiropractors distort info negative to their practice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/neck-manipulation-and-strokes.html">Neck Manipulation and Strokes: References</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/risks-related-to-manipulation-of.html">Risks Related to Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: Consequences for Evidence Based Practice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/cancer-patients-take-their-hopes-to.html">Cancer patients take their hopes to Tijuana</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/fda-warning-letters-to-firms-for.html">FDA warning letters to firms for marketing illicit "cure-all" products</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/anti-immunization-press-reports-in.html">Anti-Immunization Press Reports in Australia 1993-1997</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/trumpeting-vaccination-may-only.html">Trumpeting vaccination may only entrench opposition</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/consumer-health-digest-05-20-may-17.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-20 May 17, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/ntla-orders-bogus-st-luke-university.html">NTLA Orders 'Bogus' St. Luke University Closed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/discredited-doctors-cure-for-aids.html">Discredited doctor's 'cure' for Aids ignites life-and-death struggle in South Africa</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/serious-pseudoscience-fsu-chiropractic.html">Serious pseudoscience (FSU chiropractic school)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-victims-perspective.html">Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/medicine-man-is-chiropractic-treatment.html">Medicine Man: Is chiropractic treatment potentially much more dangerous than most?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/gates-adds-250m-to-fight-against.html">Gates adds $250M to fight against diseases</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractor-fined-in-toxin-case.html">Chiropractor fined in toxin case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/ephedra-step-backwards.html">Ephedra: A step backwards</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/kirbys-evidence-of-harm-evidently.html">Kirby's "Evidence of Harm," Evidently Stoking Fear</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/our-antique-courts.html">Our antique courts</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/beware-harmful-effects-of-herbs.html">Beware: Harmful Effects of Herbs</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/story-of-homoeopathy-and-how-it-has.html">The story of homoeopathy and how it has flourished</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/quackery-skepticcom.html">Quackery: skeptic.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractor-in-botox-probe-gets.html">Chiropractor in Botox Probe Gets License</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/cows-urine-health-fad.html">Cow's urine health fad</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/eighth-skeptics-circle.html">The Eighth Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-on-student-doctor-forum.html">Chiropractic on the Student Doctor forum</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/quantum-quackery.html">Quantum Quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/mercury-and-autism-damaging-delusion.html">Mercury and autism: a damaging delusion</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/palm-beach-gardens-chiropractor-in.html">Palm Beach Gardens chiropractor in botulism case is hit with fine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/banned-swimmer-wins-case-over.html">Banned Swimmer Wins Case Over Supplements</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/aids-activists-go-after-vitamin.html">AIDS Activists Go After Vitamin Salesman (Matthias Rath)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/rath-articles.html">Rath articles</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/vitamin-guru-to-face-wrath-of-tac-in.html">Vitamin guru to face wrath of TAC in court (Matthias Rath)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/bad-medicine-matthias-rath.html">Bad medicine (Matthias Rath)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/judge-criticizes-head-of-chiropractors.html">Judge criticizes head of chiropractors’ group</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/un-denounces-ad-campaign-by-us-vitamin.html">UN denounces ad campaign by US vitamin distributor (Matthias Rath)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/africa-responds-to-close-down-polio.html">Africa responds to close down polio epidemic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/primal-defense-hso-probiotics-warning.html">Primal Defense, HSO probiotics: a warning</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/experts-warn-of-welsh-mumps-epidemic.html">Experts warn of Welsh mumps epidemic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/anti-polio-vaccine-malians-jailed.html">Anti-polio vaccine Malians jailed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/yemen-and-indonesia-polio-cases-worry.html">Yemen and Indonesia polio cases worry WHO</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/is-vaccine-industry-ailing.html">Is the vaccine industry ailing?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/anti-vaccination-crowd-needs-pill.html">Anti-vaccination crowd needs a pill</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/bigotry-sparks-rebirth-of-disease.html">Bigotry sparks rebirth of disease</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/therapies-cut-death-risk-breast-cancer.html">Therapies Cut Death Risk, Breast-Cancer Study Finds</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/jab-does-not-lead-to-bowel-disease.html">Jab 'does not lead to bowel disease'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/mmr-is-urged-for-children-as-mumps.html">MMR is urged for children as mumps epidemic spreads</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/absence-of-evidence-evidence-of.html">Absence of Evidence -- Evidence of Absence?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/mcc-orders-urgent-probe-of-rath-cures.html">MCC orders urgent probe of Rath cures</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/harvard-researchers-tear-into-rath.html">Harvard researchers tear into Rath</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/rath-gets-taste-of-asmals-wrath.html">Rath gets a taste of Asmal's wrath</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/rath-bad-news-for-hivaids-sufferers_12.html">Rath bad news for HIV/Aids sufferers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/tac-issues-ultimatum-over-entrepreneur.html">TAC issues ultimatum over entrepreneur (Matthias Rath)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/health-ministers-dose-of-wrong.html">Health Minister's dose of the wrong medicine - DA</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/dangers-of-alternative-medicine.html">Dangers of alternative medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/ignoring-science-at-our-peril.html">Ignoring science at our peril</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-subluxation-is-dead-time.html">The Chiropractic Subluxation is Dead, Time Magazine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/atheist-interview-with-richard-dawkins.html">The atheist: Interview with Richard Dawkins</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/weirdest-cures-on-show-at-debate.html">Weirdest cures on show at debate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/belfast-five-week-series-of-talks-on.html">Belfast: Five week series of talks on Quack Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/away-with-all-your-superstitions.html">Away With All Your Superstitions</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/journal-prints-rejected-paper-as-ad.html">Journal prints rejected paper - as ad</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/characteristics-of-pediatric-and.html">Characteristics of Pediatric and Adolescent Patients Attending a Naturopathic College Clinic in Canada</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/lower-vaccination-rates-put-children.html">Lower Vaccination Rates Put Children At Risk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/fired-santana-aide-blames-gurus-test.html">Fired Santana aide blames guru's 'test'</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/two-cows-humor.html">Two Cows: Humor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/consumer-health-digest-05-17-april-26.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-17, April 26, 2005.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/some-activist-groups-exhibit.html">Some Activist Groups Exhibit a "Pathological Scientific" Stance</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/acupuncture-and-dry-needling-for-low.html">Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Cochrane Review)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/aids-flu-pesticidecell-phone.html">AIDS, flu, pesticide,cell phone reassurances -- and then flour</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/state-medical-board-suspends-license.html">State medical board suspends license of Dr. James Shortt</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/foolish-not-to-vaccinate.html">Foolish not to vaccinate</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/codex-wont-affect-us-law-say.html">Codex won’t affect US law, say associations</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/deadly-bug-risk-to-43-of-toddlers.html">Deadly bug risk to 43% of toddlers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/sixth-skeptics-circle.html">Sixth Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/mysteries-of-magic-water-man.html">Mysteries of the magic water man</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/things-to-ponder.html">Things To Ponder</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/alternative-medicine-doctor-has.html">Alternative medicine doctor has license suspended</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/666-number-of-beast.html">666 Number of the beast</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/list-of-mangled-measurements.html">List of mangled measurements</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/el-computer.html">El computer</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/beware-of-health-fraud.html">Beware of Health fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/homeopathy-undiluted-tosh.html">Homeopathy - Undiluted Tosh!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-stick-it-out.html">Just stick it out!</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/do-physicians-overestimate-effects-of.html">Do physicians overestimate effects of acupuncture treatment?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/alternative-medical-terms.html">Alternative Medical Terms</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/warning-bread-is-dangerous.html">WARNING: Bread is Dangerous!</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/antivaxers-lowest-form-of-human-life.html">Antivaxers: The Lowest Form of Human Life</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/penn-teller-receive-2005-richard.html">Penn & Teller Receive 2005 Richard Dawkins Award</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/polio-vaccination-boycott-spreads.html">Polio vaccination boycott spreads</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/anti-vaccine-sentiment-plagues-nigeria.html">Anti-vaccine sentiment plagues Nigeria</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/naturopathic-technique-stirring-bad.html">Naturopathic technique stirring bad blood</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/tangled-bank-xxv-dear-journal-editor.html">The Tangled Bank XXV: Dear Journal Editor, It's Me Again</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/days-of-no-to-bac-quackery-looks.html">The days of No-To-Bac: Quackery looks quaint</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/magnetic-therapy.html">Magnetic Therapy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/rebecca-carley-md-disgrace-to-medicine.html">Rebecca Carley, MD, a Disgrace to Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/concern-over-this-article.html">Concern over this article: "Complementary Medicine in Australia"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/smoking-teeth-truth-gets-smoked-out.html">"Smoking Teeth" - the truth gets "smoked out"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/vaccine-info-on-web-fact-or-fiction.html">Vaccine Info on the Web: Fact or Fiction?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/detailing-rubellas-disappearance.html">Detailing rubella's disappearance</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/homoeopathic-fraud-cafepresscom.html">Homoeopathic Fraud : CafePress.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/cold-reading-resources.html">Cold Reading resources</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/complementary-alternative-medicine-use.html">Complementary & Alternative Medicine Use, Needs More Rigorous Evaluation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/does-science-have-chiropractics-back.html">Does science have chiropractic's back?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/19-so-called-doctors-denied-licenses.html">19 So-Called Doctors Denied Licenses</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/is-your-chiropractor-safe-accreditor.html">Is Your Chiropractor Safe? Accreditor Admits 12% of Chiropractors Are Unqualified</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/is-trust-enough.html">Is trust enough?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/complementary-and-alternative.html">Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/vaccination-autism-link-unproven.html">Vaccination-Autism Link Unproven</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/peoples-pharma.html">People's Pharma</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/google-gulp.html">Google Gulp</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/praise-allah-political-joke.html">Praise Allah (a political joke)</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/noel-batten-exposed.html">Noel Batten exposed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/anti-vaccine-sentiment-plagues-nigeria.html">Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Plagues Nigeria</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/homeopathy-meet-ends-in-dramatic.html">Homeopathy meet ends in a dramatic fashion</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/dr-stephen-barrett-on-c-health-your.html">Dr. Stephen Barrett on C-Health: Your Health and Wellness Source</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/why-double-blind-studies-steven.html">Why Double-Blind Studies? - Steven Bratman, M.D.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/alternative-medicine-consulting.html">Alternative Medicine Consulting Services - Steven Bratman, M.D.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/carlos-negretes-malicious-abuse-of.html">Carlos Negrete's malicious abuse of the judicial system</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-loan-default-problem.html">Chiropractic loan default problem</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-colleges-top.html">Chiropractic college's top administrator steps down</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/physiotherapy-for-elderly-youth.html">Physiotherapy for elderly, youth covered under OHIP after government backs down</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/william-hammesfahrs-false-claim-to.html">William Hammesfahr's False Claim to Nobel Fame</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/mark-geier-untrustworthy-autism.html">Mark Geier Untrustworthy: Autism, Thimerosal, Vaccinations</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/revisiting-thimerosal-autism.html">Revisiting the Thimerosal-Autism Connection</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/quack-quack-quack-exhibit-at.html">Quack, Quack, Quack: Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/original-web-articles-on-alternative.html">Original Web Articles on Alternative Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/cdc-rubella-eliminated-in-us.html">CDC: Rubella eliminated in U.S.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/fourth-edition-of-skeptics-circle.html">The Fourth Edition of the Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/response-to-tim-bolens-nonsense-about.html">Response to Tim Bolen's nonsense about Hulda Clark</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-do-you-blog.html">How do YOU blog?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-books.html">Chiropractic Books</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/appeals-court-upholds-suit-against.html">Appeals Court Upholds Suit against Carlos Negrete</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/bogus-anti-quackbuster-suit-withdrawn.html">Bogus "Anti-Quackbuster" Suit Withdrawn</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/mindless-sheep.html">Mindless Sheep</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/supporting-signatures-to-open-letter.html">Supporting Signatures to Open Letter to the AVMA</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/fear-itself_18.html">Fear Itself</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/defamation-and-libel-blog.html">Defamation and Libel Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/grand-rounds-xxv-what-to-watch-this.html">Grand Rounds XXV: What to watch this week</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/10-clues-that-alternative-might-mean.html">10 Clues that "Alternative" Might Mean "Invalid"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/medical-practioners-bear-great.html">Medical practioners bear great responsibility</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/successful-chiropractic-marketing.html">Successful Chiropractic Marketing</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/my-start-in-blogging.html">My start in blogging</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/sad-to-see-doctor-promoting-false-hope.html">Sad to see doctor promoting false hope</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/dont-call-naturopathy-legitimate.html">Don't call naturopathy a legitimate practice </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/nutritional-supplements-buyers-be.html">Nutritional Supplements: Buyers Be Aware</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/opposition-to-license-naturopathy.html">Opposition to license naturopathy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-study-by-mahlon-wagner.html">Chiropractic - a study by Mahlon Wagner, PhD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/herbal-homeopathic-treatments-share_13.html">Herbal, homeopathic treatments share space with cold medicines</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/plain-prey.html">Plain Prey</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/congregation-of-universal-wisdom.html">Congregation of Universal Wisdom</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiro-images.html">Chiro images</a> - humor<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/antivax-vibes-grow-as-naturopathy.html">Antivax vibes grow as naturopathy students go</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/position-statement-regarding-proposed.html">Position Statement Regarding the Proposed Chiropractic School at FSU</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/recognizing-pseudoscience.html">Recognizing Pseudoscience</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-i-left-chiropractic.html">Why I Left Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/action-alert-stop-fsu-school-of.html">Action Alert! Stop FSU School of Chiropractic </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/sica-reflects-on-fsu-chiropractic.html">SICA Reflects on FSU Chiropractic College</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-may-cost-state-84.html">Chiropractic school may cost state $84 million</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-control-over-planned-chiropractic.html">FSU control over planned chiropractic school gets tense</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/opponents-try-to-kill-plan-for-fsu.html">Opponents Try to Kill Plan For FSU Chiropractic School</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-deserves-lack.html">FSU chiropractic school deserves lack of support</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/opinion-set-record-straight-about.html">Opinion: Set record straight about chiropractic school</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/doctors-others-deride-chiropractic.html">Doctors, Others Deride Chiropractic School</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/terry-polevoys-complaint-to-canadian.html">Terry Polevoy's complaint to the Canadian Business Press</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/terry-polevoys-complaint-to-canadian.html">Terry Polevoy's complaint to the Canadian Business Press</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/no-justification-for-existence-of.html">No justification for the existence of chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/why-fsu-chiropractic-school-shouldnt.html">Why the FSU Chiropractic School Shouldn't Happen</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/are-chiropractors-back-doctors.html">Are Chiropractors "Back Doctors"?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractor-school-resistance.html">FSU: Chiropractor school resistance stiffens</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-board-of-trustees-votes-yes-on.html">FSU Board of Trustees votes yes on chiropractic college</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/hulda-clark-links.html">Hulda Clark links</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/funding-for-fsu-chiropractic-school.html">Funding for FSU Chiropractic School Faces Uphill Battle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/consumer-health-digest-05-02-jan-11.html">Consumer Health Digest #05-02, Jan. 11, 2005</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractors-doctors-feud-over-fsu.html">Chiropractors, doctors feud over FSU plan</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-school-could-prove-or-dispel.html">FSU: School could prove -- or dispel -- claims</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/governors-say-fsu-ad-for-dean.html">Governors Say FSU Ad For Dean Premature</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/will-fsu-school-improve-image-of.html">Will FSU school improve image of chiropractic?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-has-backers-but-is-it.html">FSU: Chiropractic has backers, but is it just voodoo?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-faculty-hold-off-on-chiropractic.html">FSU: Faculty: Hold off on chiropractic deal</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-nightmare.html">Chiropractic Nightmare</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/ethical-analysis-of-vertebral.html">Ethical Analysis of Vertebral Subluxation Based Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/doctors-threaten-to-quit-fsu-over.html">Doctors threaten to quit FSU over school</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-google-search.html">FSU chiropractic school: Google search</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/chiropractic-school-angers-fsu.html">Chiropractic school angers FSU professors</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/heimlich-hero.html">Heimlich the hero?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/mucoid-plaque-dubious-idea.html">Mucoid Plaque - a dubious idea</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/pinkbookoriginal-epidemiology.html">PinkBook/Original: Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/more-fsu-chiro-info-important-dates.html">More FSU Chiro Info - Important Dates</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-homeopathic-weight-loss-aid.html">NEW! Homeopathic Weight Loss Aid!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/risks-and-medications-before-you.html">Risks and Medications-Before you switch to willow bark</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/james-randi-bio.html">James Randi Bio</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/life-times.html">The Life Times</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/atomic-tomatoes-are-not-only-fruit.html">Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/top-ten-questions-homeopaths-cant.html">The Top Ten Questions Homeopaths can't answer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/question-of-science-fsu-chiropractic.html">QUESTION OF SCIENCE (FSU chiropractic)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/medicare-pilot-project-expands.html">Medicare pilot project expands coverage for chiropractic care</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/too-many-new-patients-chiro-marketing.html">Too Many New Patients! (chiro marketing)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/how-can-intelligent-people-use.html">How Can Intelligent People Use Alternative Medicine? ; It is Not Harmless to Profit From Selling Lies to Sick and Dying People</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/swiss-company-to-provide-refund-to-us.html">Swiss Company to Provide Refund to U.S. Consumers</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/neurologic-complications-following.html">Neurologic complications following chiropractic manipulation: a survey of California neurologists</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/stroke-following-chiropractic.html">Stroke following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-scholar.html">Google Scholar</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/prayer-study-columbia-professor.html">PRAYER STUDY: COLUMBIA PROFESSOR REMOVES HIS NAME FROM PAPER</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/comments-on-in-quest-for-cultural.html">Comments on "In the Quest for Cultural Authority "</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/hulda-clark-sd-firm-swiss-affiliate_02.html">Hulda Clark: S.D. firm, Swiss affiliate settle lawsuit over cancer cure claims </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/face-discussion-board-before-and-after.html">FACE Discussion Board - Before and After</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/in-quest-for-cultural-authority.html">In the Quest for Cultural Authority</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/michael-kastberg-afslret-igen.html">Michael Kastberg afsløret -- igen!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/michael-kastbergs-forvandling.html">Michael Kastbergs forvandling</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/boop-bone-out-of-place.html">BOOP (Bone Out Of Place)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/face-group-segregates-and-bans-critics.html">FACE group segregates and bans critics</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/innate-intelligence-its-origins-and.html">Innate intelligence: its origins and problems</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/politics-of-health-fraud.html">The Politics of Health Fraud</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/common-sense-proof-that-hulda-clark.html">A Common Sense Proof That Hulda Clark Does Not Have A Cure For Cancer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/good-vaccination-links.html">Good vaccination links</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractors-and-vaccination.html">Chiropractors and vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/randy-ferrance-dc-md-on-vaccination.html">Randy Ferrance, DC, MD on vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/dont-buy-lie-infomercial-scam-video.html">Don't buy the lie: Infomercial scam video released. </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/realities-of-alternative-medicine-for.html">The Realities of Alternative Medicine for Serious Illness: A Guide<br /><br />for Laymen - by Saul Green, Ph.D.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractic-position-statement.html">Chiropractic position statement (portion)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/cebm-levels-of-evidence-and-grades-of.html">CEBM - Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractics-legacy-palmer.html">Chiropractic's Legacy: Palmer Megalomania</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/man-is-charged-in-cancer-death.html">Man is charged in cancer death</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/featured-internship-opportunity-chiro.html">Featured Internship Opportunity (chiro marketing)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/proadjuster-chiropractic-tool.html">ProAdjuster - chiropractic tool</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/so-many-questionsabout-fsu.html">So many questions....about FSU chiropractic school</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/proposed-school-of-chiropractic-at.html">Proposed School of Chiropractic at Florida State University</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/sludge-doctors-editorial.html">Sludge Doctor's Editorial</a><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/table-of-contents.html" target="_new"></a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/scripts-are-for-actors-not-doctors-dcs.html" target="_new">Scripts are for ACTORS not doctors. DCs use scripts...... </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/press-release-is-your-chiropractor.html" target="_new">PRESS RELEASE: Is Your Chiropractor Safe? Accreditor Admits 12%<br /><br />of Chiropractors Are Unqualified</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/rubella-elimination-in-americas.html" target="_new">Rubella Elimination in the Americas Advancing, Experts Say</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/saul-green-letter-to-scientist-re.html" target="_new">Saul Green letter to The Scientist re: Alternative Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/saul-green-letter-to-wash-post-re.html" target="_new">Saul Green Letter to Wash Post re: Burzynski</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/saul-green-phd-extraordinary-man-of.html" target="_new">Saul Green, Ph.D. - extraordinary man of science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/alternative-medicine-essays-skeptics.html" target="_new">Alternative Medicine Essays - Skeptic's Dictionary</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiroquackery-in-uk.html" target="_new">Chiroquackery in the UK</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractic-education-by-john-badanes.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Education - by John Badanes, DC, PharmD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/john-badanes-incisive-comments.html" target="_new">John Badanes' incisive comments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/closer-to-truth-who-gets-to-validate.html" target="_new">Closer to Truth . Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine? - PBS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/osteopathy-and-chiropractic-little.html" target="_new">Osteopathy and chiropractic - a little history....</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/ftc-launches-big-fat-lie-initiative.html" target="_new">FTC Launches "Big Fat Lie" Initiative Targeting Bogus Weight-loss Claims</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/fatfoe-eggplant-extract-fat-blocker.html" target="_new">FatFoe Eggplant Extract - Fat Blocker</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/two-realities-by-harriet-hall-md.html" target="_new">Two realities - by Harriet Hall, MD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/anti-quackery-t-shirts-and-slogans.html" target="_new">Anti-Quackery T-shirts and slogans</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/introductory-logic-slick-maneuver.html" target="_new">Introductory Logic - Slick Maneuver Identification Tables</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/ica-files-major-brief-in-landmark.html" target="_new">ICA files major brief in landmark Arkansas Chiropractic Board vs.<br /><br />PT Case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/life-us-holiday-lights-twinkle-off.html" target="_new">Life U's holiday lights twinkle off</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiro-ammo-publishing-products.html" target="_new">Chiro Ammo Publishing - Products</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/how-to-create-chiropractic-fanatics.html" target="_new">How to Create Chiropractic Fanatics</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/censorship-on-drclark-list.html" target="_new">Censorship on the DrClark list</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/dr-terry-polevoy-medical-post-article.html" target="_new">Dr. Terry Polevoy - Medical Post article</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/ephedra-if-it-starts-killing.html" target="_new">EPHEDRA: IF IT STARTS KILLING CELEBRITIES, IT'S GONE TOO FAR.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/herbal-highs-natural-is-not-synonym.html" target="_new">HERBAL HIGHS: "NATURAL" IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR SAFE.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/dietary-supplements-iom-calls-for.html" target="_new">DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: IOM CALLS FOR CHANGES IN THE 1994 DSHEA.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/why-do-smart-people-fall-for-dumb.html" target="_new">Why do smart people fall for dumb ideas? - by Harriet Hall, MD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/quotes-regarding-science.html" target="_new">Quotes regarding science</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/dolivaxil-cant-cure-anything-by-liz.html" target="_new">Dolivaxil can't "cure" anything - by Liz Ditz</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/can-homeopathy-oscillococcinum.html" target="_new">Can Homeopathy (Oscillococcinum, Dolivaxil, Influenzinum) Help With The Flu? - by Liz Ditz</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/optometry-for-learning-disabilities-by.html" target="_new">Optometry for Learning Disabilities - by Liz Ditz</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/vision-therapy-disproven-bunk-in-new.html" target="_new">Vision Therapy: Disproven Bunk in New Package; Credulous Reporting No Help - by Liz Ditz</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/myth-of-quick-fix-by-diana-moore.html" target="_new">Myth of a Quick Fix - by Diana Moore</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/controversial-therapies-why-do-some.html" target="_new">Controversial Therapies: Why Do Some Unproven Therapies Become Popular? - by Emerson Dickman</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/eye-for-fakes-by-jeff-gammage.html" target="_new">An eye for fakes - by Jeff Gammage</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/are-you-quack.html" target="_new">Are you a quack?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/spam-links-spam-scams.html" target="_new">Spam Links - spam scams</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/how-medical-practice-should-be-run.html" target="_new">How a Medical Practice Should be Run?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/anti-vaccination-group-promoting.html" target="_new">Anti - vaccination group promoting children's playgroup.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/attitudes-and-views-of-medical.html" target="_new">Attitudes and Views of Medical Students toward Science and Pseudoscience</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/acsh-facts-fears.html" target="_new">ACSH: Facts & Fears</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/theres-unvaccinated-sucker-born-every.html" target="_new">There's an Unvaccinated Sucker Born Every Minute By Rivka Weiser</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/faact-families-against-abusive.html" target="_new">FAACT - Families Against Abusive Chiropractic Treatments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/glucosamin-mulige-alvorlige.html" target="_new">Glucosamin: Mulige alvorlige bivirkninger undersøges</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/science-fair-projects-chiropractic.html" target="_new">Science Fair Projects - Chiropractic medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractic-technique-may-pose-stroke.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Technique May Pose Stroke Risk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/god-is-dead-article-from-new-york.html" target="_new">"God is Dead" article from the New York Times Jan. 9. 1966, page<br /><br />146</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/konfabulator-gallery.html" target="_new">Konfabulator - Gallery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractic-oranges.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Oranges</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/proving-negative.html" target="_new">Proving a Negative</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/cbs-news-saying-no-to-immunization_21.html" target="_new">CBS News Saying 'No' To Immunization October 20, 2004</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/politics-of-autism-lawsuits-and.html" target="_new">The Politics of Autism: Lawsuits and emotion vs. science and childhood vaccines.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/autism-and-vaccines-activists-wage.html" target="_new">Autism and Vaccines: Activists wage a nasty campaign to silence scientists.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/defendphysicaltherapycom.html" target="_new">DefendPhysicalTherapy.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/hulda-clark-does-not-have-cure-for.html" target="_new">Hulda Clark Does Not Have A Cure For Cancer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/attention-life-alums-cult-expert-wants.html" target="_new">Attention Life alums - cult expert wants your story</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/discussion-regarding-homeopathy.html" target="_new">Discussion regarding homeopathy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/comparison-of-dc-md-disciplinary.html" target="_new">Comparison of DC & MD disciplinary categories</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractics-safe-haven.html" target="_new">Chiropractic's "Safe Haven"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/technique-not-theory-or-therapy.html" target="_new">Technique, Not Theory or Therapy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/annes-weblog-questions-about.html" target="_new">Anne's weblog: Questions about zonetherapy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/summary-of-problems-in-chiropractic-by.html" target="_new">Summary of problems in chiropractic, by Diane</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/asthma-quack-cures-aboutcom-series.html" target="_new">Asthma Quack Cures -- about.com series</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/reasoning-error-that-any-idea-granted.html" target="_new">Reasoning error: that any idea granted a name is 'real'.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/quackery-in-chiropractic.html" target="_new">Quackery in Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/quacksites-most-unreliable-health.html" target="_new">QuackSites: Most unreliable health websites</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/bivirkning-eller-eftervirkning.html" target="_new">Bivirkning eller eftervirkning?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/some-useful-links.html" target="_new">Some useful links</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/eva-cassidy-legendary-singer.html" target="_new">Eva Cassidy: Legendary Singer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/chiropractors-need-re-education.html" target="_new">Chiropractors need re-education!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/elusive-chiropractic-subluxation.html" target="_new">The elusive chiropractic "subluxation"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/josh-groban-another-talented-singer.html" target="_new">Josh Groban, another talented singer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/eva-cassidy-articles-music-clips.html" target="_new">Eva Cassidy: articles, music clips, reviews, etc.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/chirotalk.html" target="_new">Chirotalk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/getting-big-picture.html" target="_new">Getting the big picture</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/chiropractic-assistants-corner.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Assistant's Corner</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/advice-to-future-dc.html" target="_new">Advice to a future DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blog-about-chiropractic-and-adhd.html" target="_new">A blog *about* chiropractic and ADHD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blogs-by-chiropractors-or-students.html" target="_new">Blogs by chiropractors or students</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/anti-intellectual-quote-from-bj-palmer.html" target="_new">Anti-intellectual quote from B.J. Palmer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/your-subjects-invitation-to-post-here.html" target="_new">Your subjects: an invitation to post here</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/dansk-skeptiker-sidsel-larsen.html" target="_new">Dansk skeptiker: Sidsel Larsen</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blog-quoting-theresa-neilsen-hayden.html" target="_new">Blog quoting Theresa Neilsen Hayden</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/theresa-neilsen-haydens-blog-entry.html" target="_new">Theresa Neilsen Hayden's blog entry about chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blog-by-alan-victims-of-alternative.html" target="_new">Blog by Alan: Victims of Alternative Medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/great-blog-by-liz-ditz.html" target="_new">Great blog by Liz Ditz</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/g-douglas-andersen-dc-exceptional.html" target="_new">G. Douglas Andersen, DC - An Exceptional Chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-science-or-religion.html" target="_new">Chiropractic: Science or Religion?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractors-and-immunization.html" target="_new">Chiropractors and Immunization</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-admission-standands.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Admission Standands Lowest among Health Professionals</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/famous-chiropediatric-top-7.html" target="_new">The Famous ChiroPediatric Top 7</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/33-chiropractic-principles.html" target="_new">The 33 Chiropractic Principles</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/no-justification-for-existence-of_19.html" target="_new">No justification for the existence of chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chirolinks-chiropractic-resources.html" target="_new">ChiroLinks: Chiropractic Resources, Articles & Links</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/what-is-real-chiropractic.html" target="_new">What is "Real" Chiropractic?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-position-statement.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Position Statement & Disclaimer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/treasure-chest-of-quotes-jokes.html" target="_new">Treasure Chest of Quotes & Jokes</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/turf-war-my-tush-by-john-badanes-dc.html" target="_new">"Turf war," my tush! - by John Badanes, DC, PharmD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-assistants-as.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Assistants as Whistleblowers: An Invitation to<br /><br />Activism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/dd-palmers-religion-of-chiropractic-dd.html" target="_new">D.D. Palmer's Religion of Chiropractic - D.D. Palmer letter, May 4, 1911</a><br />
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<center><b><i><span style="color: #993300;">"You can take the chiropractor out of the strip mall<br />but you can't take the strip mall out of the chiropractor."</span></i></b></center><br />
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<center><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>FILMS YOU MUST SEE!</b><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-see-dangers-of-chiropractic.html"><b>DANGERS OF CHIROPRACTIC THERAPY</b></a><br />Manipulation of the cervical spine: risks and benefits</span></span></span></center><center><b></b></center><center><b><br /><span style="color: red;">SEE THEM WHILE YOU CAN!</span></b></center><br />
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<a href="http://saveyourself.ca/articles/reality-checks/does-chiropractic-work.php">Does Chiropractic Work?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/091123-mom-dies-after-a-chiropractic-adjustment">Young Mom Dies After a Chiropractic Adjustment: Is "chiropractic stroke" to blame?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/06/chirocopalypse-british-chiropractors.html">Chirocopalypse: British chiropractors running scared </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2009/01/yelp-user-faces-lawsuit-over-negative.html">Yelp User Faces Lawsuit Over Negative Review of Chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2008/10/beware-spinal-trap-simon-singh.html">Beware the spinal trap - Simon Singh</a> "Forbidden" article<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/dead-patients-estate-sues-chiropractor.html">Dead patient's estate sues chiropractor & others</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/postage-stamp-honors-crusader-against.html">Postage Stamp Honors Crusader Against Chiropractic Malpractice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/09/voca-unveils-chiropractic-malpractice.html">VOCA Unveils Chiropractic Malpractice Postage Stamp..</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2007/07/interesting-observations-from.html">Interesting observations from a chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/01/chiro-book-what-chiropractors-dont.html">Chiro book: What Chiropractors Don't Want You to Know About Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/spinal-manipulation-for-headache.html">Spinal manipulation for headache disorders</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/professor-savages-homeopathy-and.html">Professor savages homeopathy (and chiropractic)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiroplot-scheme-to-scam-competition.html">ChiroPlot: the scheme to scam the competition.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/appeals-court-overturns-adverse.html">Appeals Court Overturns Adverse District Court Ruling in American Chiropractic Association Lawsuit against HHS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/become-effective-chiropractic-speaker.html">BECOME AN EFFECTIVE CHIROPRACTIC SPEAKER</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/informed-consent-chiro-style.html">Informed Consent ..... Chiro Style</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractic-footbath-cures-everything.html">Chiropractic Footbath cures everything</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractor-and-his-patient.html">The Chiropractor and His Patient</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/manipulable-lesion-chiropractic-rose.html">The Manipulable Lesion -- A Chiropractic Rose By Any Other Name (Part 2)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/kinsinger-letter-chiropractic-at.html">Kinsinger Letter - chiropractic at University of Alberta</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/seven-stages-of-chiropractic_04.html">The Seven Stages of Chiropractic Deprogramming - Part 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/revolutionary-marketing-tips-for.html">Revolutionary Marketing Tips for Chiropractic Professionals</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/seven-stages-of-chiropractic.html">The Seven Stages of Chiropractic Deprogramming</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/12/chiropractic-neck-manipulation-can.html">Chiropractic neck manipulation can cause injury or death -- video</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/whats-so-bad-about-chiropractic.html">What's so bad about chiropractic education?"</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/spinal-manipulation-its-safety-is.html">Spinal manipulation: Its safety is uncertain</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/chiropractors-marketing-techniques.html">Chiropractor's Marketing Techniques Probed</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/manipulable-lesion-chiropractic-rose.html">The Manipulable Lesion -- A Chiropractic Rose By Any Other Name (Part 1)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/doctors-suspension-overturned.html">Doctor's suspension overturned</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/ruling-due-monday-on-chiropractors.html">Ruling due Monday on chiropractor's license</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/breast-massage-not-standard.html">Breast massage not standard [chiropractic] care -- expert</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/revisions-to-dangers-of-chiropractic.html">Revisions to "Dangers of chiropractic therapy"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/government-reverses-physiotherapy.html">Government reverses physiotherapy delisting</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/class-action-lawsuit-against-canadian.html">CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CANADIAN CHIROPRACTIC PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION BEING PLANNED BY THE ADVOCACY GROUP FAMILIES AGAINST ABUSIVE CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/case-of-fatal-neck-adjustment.html">The Case of the Fatal Neck Adjustment</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/victims-of-chiropractic-contracts.html">Victims of "chiropractic contracts"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/search-chiropractor-quackery-or-not.html">Search: chiropractor quackery or not</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/ease-strain-on-neck.html">Ease the strain on the neck</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/death-of-dd-palmer-attempted-murder-by.html">The Death of DD Palmer: Attempted Murder by His Son?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/foundations-of-chiropractic-2nd.html">Foundations of Chiropractic, 2nd Edition - Subluxation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/09/subluxation-dogma-or-science.html">Subluxation: dogma or science?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/chiropractic-expert-witnesses.html">Chiropractic Expert Witnesses</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/concepts-and-future-of-chiropractic.html">Concepts and The Future of Chiropractic. Fraud & Abuse</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/life-universitys-new-advertising.html">Life University's new advertising campaign</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/legislate-to-warn-public-that-neck.html">Legislate to Warn Public that Neck Manipulation can cause a Stroke -</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/canadian-orthopractic-manual-therapy.html">Canadian Orthopractic Manual Therapy Association Guidelines</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/slipped-disc-misleading-terminology.html">Slipped Disc: Misleading Terminology</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-search-terms.html">Chiropractic Search Terms</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/subluxation-awareness-week.html">Subluxation Awareness Week</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-therapy-for-neck-pain-may.html">Chiropractic Therapy for Neck Pain May Have High Rate of Adverse Reactions</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-anti-vaccination-parents.html">Chiropractic anti-vaccination: Parents sue when player is benched</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/fsu-college-of-chiropractic-is-bad.html">FSU 'College of Chiropractic' is a bad idea by Terry A. Rondberg, DC, WCA President</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/agents-probing-hormone-shipment.html">Agents probing hormone shipment</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/pro-adjuster-quackery.html">Pro-Adjuster quackery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/adjustments-and-manipulations-are-not.html">Adjustments and manipulations are not the same</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/quackery-in-chiropractic.html">Quackery in Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-orders-chiropractor-to-halt.html">Health orders chiropractor to halt live blood analysis tests</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/taxpayers-overbilled-for-chiropractic.html">Taxpayers Overbilled for Chiropractic Work</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/are-chiropractors-necessary.html">Are chiropractors necessary?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/psychic-surgeon-claims-to-remove.html">'Psychic surgeon' claims to remove patients' tumors without surgery</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractic-anti-vaccination.html">Chiropractic Anti-Vaccination Arguments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/moral-and-religious-duty-of.html">The Moral and Religious Duty of a Chiropractor - D. D. Palmer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/fraud-in-mddc-arena.html">Fraud in the MD/DC Arena</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractor-defends-terrorist-suspect.html">Chiropractor defends terrorist suspect</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/health-care-heretic-blog-by-larry.html">Health Care Heretic: blog by Larry Wyatt, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/new-chiropractic-blog-gary-knutson-dc.html">New chiropractic blog: Gary A. Knutson, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/this-is-why-chiropractors-are-upset.html">This Is Why .... Chiropractors Are Upset With This Site</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/chiropractors-v-vaccination.html">Chiropractors v. Vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-treatment-of-neck-can-be.html">Chiropractic treatment of the neck can be a risk factor for stroke</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-tied-to-rare-strokes.html">Chiropractic Tied to Rare Strokes</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractors-distort-info-negative-to.html">Chiropractors distort info negative to their practice</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/neck-manipulation-and-strokes.html">Neck Manipulation and Strokes: References</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/risks-related-to-manipulation-of.html">Risks Related to Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: Consequences for Evidence Based Practice</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/serious-pseudoscience-fsu-chiropractic.html">Serious pseudoscience (FSU chiropractic school)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-victims-perspective.html">Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/medicine-man-is-chiropractic-treatment.html">Medicine Man: Is chiropractic treatment potentially much more dangerous than most?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractor-fined-in-toxin-case.html">Chiropractor fined in toxin case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractor-in-botox-probe-gets.html">Chiropractor in Botox Probe Gets License</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-on-student-doctor-forum.html">Chiropractic on the Student Doctor forum</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/palm-beach-gardens-chiropractor-in.html">Palm Beach Gardens chiropractor in botulism case is hit with fine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/judge-criticizes-head-of-chiropractors.html">Judge criticizes head of chiropractors’ group</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-subluxation-is-dead-time.html">The Chiropractic Subluxation is Dead, Time Magazine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/fired-santana-aide-blames-gurus-test.html">Fired Santana aide blames guru's 'test'</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/does-science-have-chiropractics-back.html">Does science have chiropractic's back?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/is-your-chiropractor-safe-accreditor.html">Is Your Chiropractor Safe? Accreditor Admits 12% of Chiropractors Are Unqualified</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-loan-default-problem.html">Chiropractic loan default problem</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-colleges-top.html">Chiropractic college's top administrator steps down</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/physiotherapy-for-elderly-youth.html">Physiotherapy for elderly, youth covered under OHIP after government backs down</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/fourth-edition-of-skeptics-circle.html">The Fourth Edition of the Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-books.html">Chiropractic Books</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/grand-rounds-xxv-what-to-watch-this.html">Grand Rounds XXV: What to watch this week</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/successful-chiropractic-marketing.html">Successful Chiropractic Marketing</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiropractic-study-by-mahlon-wagner.html">Chiropractic - a study by Mahlon Wagner, PhD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/congregation-of-universal-wisdom.html">Congregation of Universal Wisdom</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/chiro-images.html">Chiro images</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/position-statement-regarding-proposed.html">Position Statement Regarding the Proposed Chiropractic School at FSU</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/recognizing-pseudoscience.html">Recognizing Pseudoscience</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/comments-on-abele-memo-and-fsu.html">Comments on Abele Memo and FSU Proposal</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/alternative-medicine.html">Alternative medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/third-skeptics-circle.html">The Third Skeptics' Circle</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/lawsuit-targets-us-chiropractor-group.html">Lawsuit targets U.S. chiropractor group</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-i-left-chiropractic.html">Why I Left Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/deadly-quacks-neurologists-have-long.html">Deadly quacks: Neurologists have long protested the practice of 'highest neck manipulation,'</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/florida-dc-becomes-state-senate.html">Florida DC becomes State Senate majority leader</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/national-insurance-fraud-seminar.html">National Insurance Fraud Seminar focuses on chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/another-chiropractor-calls-it-quits.html">Another Chiropractor Calls It Quits</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/vitalism-and-future-of-chiropractic.html">Vitalism and the future of chiropractic</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-college-killed.html">Chiropractic college killed</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/board-of-governors-kills-fsu.html">Board of Governors kills FSU chiropractic school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-defeated.html">FSU chiropractic school DEFEATED!</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-faces-key-vote.html">Chiropractic school faces key vote</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/breaking-back-of-legislative-meddling.html">Breaking the back of legislative meddling</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/does-science-have-chiropractics-back.html">Does science have chiropractic's back?</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/action-alert-stop-fsu-school-of.html">Action Alert! Stop FSU School of Chiropractic </a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/action-alert-stop-fsu-school-of.html">Action Alert! Stop FSU School of Chiropractic </a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-exception-does-not.html">Chiropractic: The Exception Does Not Justify the Rule</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/sparks-fly-over-fsus-proposed.html">Sparks Fly Over FSU's Proposed Chiropractic School</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-out-of-alignment.html">Chiropractic school out of alignment with taxpayer interests</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-is-unneeded_22.html">FSU Chiropractic School is Unneeded</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fair-vote-on-chiropractic-school.html">Fair Vote On Chiropractic School Promised</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-college-at-fsu.html">Chiropractic College at FSU</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/proposed-school-at-fsu-heats.html">Proposed School At FSU Heats Chiropractic Debate</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/dont-saddle-fsu-with-chiropractic.html">Don't saddle FSU with chiropractic school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-bonecrackers.html">FSU Bonecrackers</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/legislators-gov-bush-seek-cooperation.html">Legislators, Gov. Bush Seek Cooperation</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/lawsuit-takes-aim-at-universities.html">Lawsuit Takes Aim At Universities Board</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/panel-may-have-bone-to-pick-with.html">Panel May Have Bone To Pick With Capitol</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/sica-reflects-on-fsu-chiropractic.html">SICA Reflects on FSU Chiropractic College</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-may-cost-state-84.html">Chiropractic school may cost state $84 million</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-control-over-planned-chiropractic.html">FSU control over planned chiropractic school gets tense</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/opponents-try-to-kill-plan-for-fsu.html">Opponents Try to Kill Plan For FSU Chiropractic School</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-deserves-lack.html">FSU chiropractic school deserves lack of support</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/jeb-bush-criticizes-fsu-handling-of.html">Jeb Bush criticizes FSU handling of chiropractic school dispute</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/making-fsu-flagship-for-subluxation.html">Making FSU flagship for subluxation theory of disease takes backbone</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-restoring-order.html">FSU: Restoring order</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/opinion-fsus-hands-off-approach.html">Opinion: FSU's hands-off approach</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/opinion-set-record-straight-about.html">Opinion: Set record straight about chiropractic school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/summary-box-chiropractic-school.html">Summary Box: Chiropractic School Derided</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/doctors-others-deride-chiropractic.html">Doctors, Others Deride Chiropractic School</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiroquackery-wellness-may-be.html">Chiroquackery: Wellness May Be Adjustment Away </a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-faces-opposition.html">Chiropractic school faces opposition</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/no-justification-for-existence-of.html">No justification for the existence of chiropractic</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/why-fsu-chiropractic-school-shouldnt.html">Why the FSU Chiropractic School Shouldn't Happen</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/school-could-prove-or-dispel-claims.html">School could prove -- or dispel -- claims:<b> Annotated</b></a> - Greg Smith, MD<br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/homeopathic-remedy-for-chiropractic.html">Homeopathic Remedy for Chiropractic Subluxations</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-takes-step.html">FSU: Chiropractic school takes step forward</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/proposed-chiropractic-school-at-fsu.html">Proposed chiropractic school at FSU ignites furor between lawmakers, profs</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/are-chiropractors-back-doctors.html">Are Chiropractors "Back Doctors"?</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractor-school-resistance.html">FSU: Chiropractor school resistance stiffens</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-board-of-trustees-votes-yes-on.html">FSU Board of Trustees votes yes on chiropractic college</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/funding-for-fsu-chiropractic-school.html">Funding for FSU Chiropractic School Faces Uphill Battle</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractors-doctors-feud-over-fsu.html">Chiropractors, doctors feud over FSU plan</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-school-could-prove-or-dispel.html">FSU: School could prove -- or dispel -- claims</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/governors-say-fsu-ad-for-dean.html">Governors Say FSU Ad For Dean Premature</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/will-fsu-school-improve-image-of.html">Will FSU school improve image of chiropractic?</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-has-backers-but-is-it.html">FSU: Chiropractic has backers, but is it just voodoo?</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-faculty-hold-off-on-chiropractic.html">FSU: Faculty: Hold off on chiropractic deal</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-divorce.html">Chiropractic Divorce</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-nightmare.html">Chiropractic Nightmare</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-injury-spinal-stenosis.html">Chiropractic injury, spinal stenosis, cauda equina syndrome</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-physicians-urge-school-be-stopped.html">FSU: Physicians urge school be stopped</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-splits-fsu.html">Chiropractic school splits FSU</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/ethical-analysis-of-vertebral.html">Ethical Analysis of Vertebral Subluxation Based Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/unlikely-duo-proves-true-chiropractic.html">Unlikely Duo Proves True Chiropractic Success Looks Totally Different Than What the Gurus Say It Should</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-is-new-theology-robert.html">"Chiropractic is a new theology" -- Robert Clyde Affolter, DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/health-care-heretic-blog-by-larry.html">Health Care Heretic - blog by Larry Wyatt, DC</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/controversy-erupts-over-proposed.html">Controversy Erupts over Proposed Chiropractic College at Florida State University</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-school-becomes-nagging.html">Chiropractic School Becomes Nagging Pain At FSU</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/dynamic-chiropractic-archives.html">Dynamic Chiropractic Archives</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/cultural-authority-best-practices-and.html">Cultural Authority, Best Practices, and Chiropractic Theory: A Dilemma for Chiropractic?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/food-for-thought-2005-keeping-open.html">Food for Thought 2005 - Keeping an Open Mind Works Both Ways (Muscle Testing for Nutritional Diagnosis)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chirobase.html">Chirobase</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsublius-florida-state-university.html">FSUblius: (Florida State University)</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/doctors-threaten-to-quit-fsu-over.html">Doctors threaten to quit FSU over school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-parody-campus-map-google-search.html">FSU parody campus map: Google search</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-google-search.html">FSU chiropractic school: Google search</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/administrators-push-for-fsu.html">Administrators push for FSU chiropractic school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-twisted-arms-twisted-egos-twisted.html">FSU: Twisted Arms, Twisted Egos, Twisted Politics</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/chiropractic-school-angers-fsu.html">Chiropractic school angers FSU professors</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/fsu-chiropractic-school-not-done-deal.html">FSU chiropractic school not a done deal just yet</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/chiropractic-school-at-fsu-unanswered.html">A chiropractic school at FSU: Unanswered questions</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/more-fsu-chiro-info-important-dates.html">More FSU Chiro Info - Important Dates</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/life-times.html">The Life Times</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/question-of-science-fsu-chiropractic.html">QUESTION OF SCIENCE (FSU chiropractic)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/medicare-pilot-project-expands.html">Medicare pilot project expands coverage for chiropractic care</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/too-many-new-patients-chiro-marketing.html">Too Many New Patients! (chiro marketing)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/neurologic-complications-following.html">Neurologic complications following chiropractic manipulation: a survey of California neurologists</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/stroke-following-chiropractic.html">Stroke following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/comments-on-in-quest-for-cultural.html">Comments on "In the Quest for Cultural Authority "</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/face-discussion-board-before-and-after.html">FACE Discussion Board - Before and After</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/in-quest-for-cultural-authority.html">In the Quest for Cultural Authority</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/boop-bone-out-of-place.html">BOOP (Bone Out Of Place)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/face-group-segregates-and-bans-critics.html">FACE group segregates and bans critics</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/innate-intelligence-its-origins-and.html">Innate intelligence: its origins and problems</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractors-and-vaccination.html">Chiropractors and vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/randy-ferrance-dc-md-on-vaccination.html">Randy Ferrance, DC, MD on vaccination</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractic-position-statement.html">Chiropractic position statement (portion)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractics-legacy-palmer.html">Chiropractic's Legacy: Palmer Megalomania</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/featured-internship-opportunity-chiro.html">Featured Internship Opportunity (chiro marketing)</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/proadjuster-chiropractic-tool.html">ProAdjuster - chiropractic tool</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/so-many-questionsabout-fsu.html">So many questions....about FSU chiropractic school</a><br />
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FSU: <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/proposed-school-of-chiropractic-at.html">Proposed School of Chiropractic at Florida State University</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/sludge-doctors-editorial.html">Sludge Doctor's Editorial</a><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/table-of-contents.html" target="_new"></a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/scripts-are-for-actors-not-doctors-dcs.html" target="_new">Scripts are for ACTORS not doctors. DCs use scripts...... </a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/press-release-is-your-chiropractor.html" target="_new">PRESS RELEASE: Is Your Chiropractor Safe? Accreditor Admits 12% of Chiropractors Are Unqualified</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiroquackery-in-uk.html" target="_new">Chiroquackery in the UK</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiropractic-education-by-john-badanes.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Education - by John Badanes, DC, PharmD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/john-badanes-incisive-comments.html" target="_new">John Badanes' incisive comments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/osteopathy-and-chiropractic-little.html" target="_new">Osteopathy and chiropractic - a little history....</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/introductory-logic-slick-maneuver.html" target="_new">Introductory Logic - Slick Maneuver Identification Tables</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/ica-files-major-brief-in-landmark.html" target="_new">ICA files major brief in landmark Arkansas Chiropractic Board vs. PT Case</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/life-us-holiday-lights-twinkle-off.html" target="_new">Life U's holiday lights twinkle off</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/chiro-ammo-publishing-products.html" target="_new">Chiro Ammo Publishing - Products</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/11/how-to-create-chiropractic-fanatics.html" target="_new">How to Create Chiropractic Fanatics</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/faact-families-against-abusive.html" target="_new">FAACT - Families Against Abusive Chiropractic Treatments</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/science-fair-projects-chiropractic.html" target="_new">Science Fair Projects - Chiropractic medicine</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractic-technique-may-pose-stroke.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Technique May Pose Stroke Risk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractic-oranges.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Oranges</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/defendphysicaltherapycom.html" target="_new">DefendPhysicalTherapy.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/attention-life-alums-cult-expert-wants.html" target="_new">Attention Life alums - cult expert wants your story</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/comparison-of-dc-md-disciplinary.html" target="_new">Comparison of DC & MD disciplinary categories</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/chiropractics-safe-haven.html" target="_new">Chiropractic's "Safe Haven"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/technique-not-theory-or-therapy.html" target="_new">Technique, Not Theory or Therapy</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/summary-of-problems-in-chiropractic-by.html" target="_new">Summary of problems in chiropractic, by Diane</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/reasoning-error-that-any-idea-granted.html" target="_new">Reasoning error: that any idea granted a name is 'real'.</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/quackery-in-chiropractic.html" target="_new">Quackery in Chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/chiropractors-need-re-education.html" target="_new">Chiropractors need re-education!</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/09/elusive-chiropractic-subluxation.html" target="_new">The elusive chiropractic "subluxation"</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/chirotalk.html" target="_new">Chirotalk</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/getting-big-picture.html" target="_new">Getting the big picture</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/chiropractic-assistants-corner.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Assistant's Corner</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/08/advice-to-future-dc.html" target="_new">Advice to a future DC</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blog-about-chiropractic-and-adhd.html" target="_new">A blog *about* chiropractic and ADHD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blogs-by-chiropractors-or-students.html" target="_new">Blogs by chiropractors or students</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/anti-intellectual-quote-from-bj-palmer.html" target="_new">Anti-intellectual quote from B.J. Palmer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/blog-quoting-theresa-neilsen-hayden.html" target="_new">Blog quoting Theresa Neilsen Hayden</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/theresa-neilsen-haydens-blog-entry.html" target="_new">Theresa Neilsen Hayden's blog entry about chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/g-douglas-andersen-dc-exceptional.html" target="_new">G. Douglas Andersen, DC - An Exceptional Chiropractor</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-science-or-religion.html" target="_new">Chiropractic: Science or Religion?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractors-and-immunization.html" target="_new">Chiropractors and Immunization</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-admission-standands.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Admission Standands Lowest among Health Professionals</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/famous-chiropediatric-top-7.html" target="_new">The Famous ChiroPediatric Top 7</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/33-chiropractic-principles.html" target="_new">The 33 Chiropractic Principles</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/no-justification-for-existence-of_19.html" target="_new">No justification for the existence of chiropractic</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chirolinks-chiropractic-resources.html" target="_new">ChiroLinks: Chiropractic Resources, Articles & Links</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/what-is-real-chiropractic.html" target="_new">What is "Real" Chiropractic?</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-position-statement.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Position Statement & Disclaimer</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/turf-war-my-tush-by-john-badanes-dc.html" target="_new">"Turf war," my tush! - by John Badanes, DC, PharmD</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/chiropractic-assistants-as.html" target="_new">Chiropractic Assistants as Whistleblowers: An Invitation to Activism</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/dd-palmers-religion-of-chiropractic-dd.html" target="_new">D.D. Palmer's Religion of Chiropractic - D.D. Palmer letter, May 4, 1911</a><br />
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<a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-latest-satirical-exasperation.html" target="_new">My latest satirical (exasperation) comment at Chirotalk</a><br />
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<b>Chiropractic Search Terms</b><br />
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Here are some chiropractic searches (with a decidedly skeptical twist....;-) Use these searches in your research, then modify them as needed. Please inform me of interesting searches to add to this list.<br />
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• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=chirolinks">chirolinks</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chirolinks+healthbase">chirolinks healthbase</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+resources">chiropractic resources</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+subluxation">chiropractic subluxation</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+religion">chiropractic religion</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+religion+philosophy">chiropractic religion philosophy</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+religion+philosophy+vitalism">chiropractic religion philosophy vitalism</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+vitalism">chiropractic vitalism</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+biotheology">chiropractic biotheology</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+philosophy">chiropractic philosophy</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+belief+systems">chiropractic belief systems</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+belief+systems+vitalism">chiropractic belief systems vitalism</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+belief+systems+vitalism+religion">chiropractic belief systems vitalism religion</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+belief+systems+vitalism+religion+quack">chiropractic belief systems vitalism religion quack</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+quack">chiropractic quack</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+quackery">chiropractic quackery</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+unethical">chiropractic unethical</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+skeptic">chiropractic skeptic</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chiropractic+advice">chiropractic advice</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chiro+info">chiro info</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chiropractic+treatment">chiropractic treatment</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chiropractic+adjustment">chiropractic adjustment</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chiropractor">chiropractor</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiroquacktor">chiroquacktor</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiroquack">chiroquack</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiroquackery">chiroquackery</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+vaccination">chiropractic vaccination </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22anti%2Dvaccination%22">chiropractic "anti-vaccination" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=da&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+anti+vax&spell=1">chiropractic anti vax</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22practice+building%22">chiropractic "practice building"</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+lifetime+patients">chiropractic lifetime patients </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+lifetime+patients+maintenance">chiropractic lifetime patients maintenance </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+lifetime+patients+maintenance+wellness">chiropractic lifetime patients maintenance wellness </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+daniel+david+palmer">chiropractic daniel david palmer </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+daniel+david+palmer+quack">chiropractic daniel david palmer quack </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+daniel+david+palmer+quackery">chiropractic daniel david palmer quackery</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+dd+palmer">chiropractic dd palmer </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+dd+palmer+quack">chiropractic dd palmer quack </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+dd+palmer+quackery">chiropractic dd palmer quackery</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+bj+palmer">chiropractic bj palmer </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+bj+palmer+quack">chiropractic bj palmer quack </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+bj+palmer+quackery">chiropractic bj palmer quackery</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+bartlett+j+palmer">chiropractic bartlett j palmer </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22safe+haven%22">chiropractic "safe haven" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+joseph+flesia">chiropractic joseph flesia </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+flesia">chiropractic flesia </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site:www%2Eworldchiropracticalliance%2Eorg+flesia">site:www.worldchiropracticalliance.org flesia </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Renaissance+International%22+chiropractic">"Renaissance International" chiropractic </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22sid+williams%22">chiropractic "sid williams" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22sid+williams%22+%22dynamic+essentials%22">chiropractic "sid williams" "dynamic essentials" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22dynamic+essentials%22">chiropractic "dynamic essentials" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22terry+rondberg%22">chiropractic "terry rondberg" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+rondberg">chiropractic rondberg </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+reikeman">chiropractic reikeman </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22guy+reikeman%22">"guy reikeman" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22tedd+koren%22">chiropractic "tedd koren" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22james+parker%22">chiropractic "james parker" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22chris+kent%22">chiropractic "chris kent" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22patrick+gentempo%22">chiropractic "patrick gentempo" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22david+singer%22">chiropractic "david singer" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22C%2EJ%2E+Mertz%22">chiropractic "C.J. Mertz" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22Jay+Morgan%22">chiropractic "Jay Morgan" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22reggie+gold%22">chiropractic "reggie gold" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22Eric+Plasker%22">chiropractic "Eric Plasker" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22500%2F500+Club%22">chiropractic "500 Club" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+%22500%2F500+Club%22">chiropractic "500/500 Club" </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site:www%2Ethefamilypractice%2Enet+500">site:www.thefamilypractice.net 500 </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Lifetime+Chiropractic+Care+for+Everyone%22">Lifetime Chiropractic Care for Everyone</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chiropractic+lcfe">chiropractic lcfe </a><br />
• <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22chiropractic+assistant%22">"chiropractic assistant"</a><br />
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Michael McCormick sometimes fights back tears when he remembers his wife Kim McCormick. Kim was only 32 years old and the mother of three young children when she passed away. "She was phenomenal, she was caring, sweet, funny. She was the glue. She kept everyone together," says McCormick who spoke exclusively to Fox 5 News reporter, Dr. Sapna Parikh. He says his wife Kim wanted nothing more than to be a stay at home mom for their 3 children. But all that ended one day in July of 2006 when Michael says, his otherwise healthy wife just wasn't feeling well, "Kim had been experiencing some headaches. So she consulted with a chiropractor."<br /><br />According to McCormick , the chiropractor performed a cervical spine manipulation to treat her pain. Soon after, McCormick says his wife lost consciousness, "She was considered clinically brain dead," he adds, "there was no function and she was on life support, and that was keeping her alive." Only 12 hours later Kim was gone.<br /><br />Kim's official death certificate obtained by Fox 5 News, reveals she died of a "vertebral artery dissection following cervical spine manipulation." That means after a manipulation, somehow the artery at the base of Kim's neck was torn, creating a blood clot that cut off blood flow to her brain and caused a stroke.<br /><br />McCormick says, had his wife known there was any risk to this type of procedure she might still be alive today, "It's something that, had we had known these were potential consequences, probably wouldn't have done. It wasn't something she needed to have done."<br /><br />Cervical spine manipulation is a twisting of the neck that is performed by chiropractors to relieve pain, muscle tension and tightness along the spine. It's considered a routine treatment.<br /><br />Dr. Keith Siller, a neurologist and Medical Director of the NYU Comprehensive Stroke Care Center in Manhattan explains the vertebral artery is the main blood supply to the back of the brain. In his opinion the risk of a so-called "chiropractic stroke" exists, but it's extremely small.<br /><br />"There are millions of people who get adjustments by chiropractors all the time and if this were such a high risk maneuver, I think we'd be seeing a huge number of patients coming in with this and we don't." says Dr. Siller.<br /><br />No reliable data exists to determine what the risk truly is, but the presidents of two "chiropractic stroke"-awareness advocacy groups, The Chiropractic Stroke Awareness Group and Victims of Irresponsible and Chiropractic Education and Standards (VOICES), claim that hundreds of cases have been reported to them over the last 3 to 5 years.<br /><br />New York City based chiropractor, Dr. Michael Minardo is a member of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and says he's been performing spinal manipulations for 23 years and he has never seen this type of injury. Dr. Minardo also points to a Canadian study where researchers found there to be no increased risk of stroke among patients who visited a chiropractor compared to those who visited a primary care doctor.<br /><br />Dr. Minardo believes these types of strokes should not be blamed on a chiropractic adjustment because, "It's not the chiropractic intervention that causes the stroke, it's the fact that these strokes were happening anyway."<br /><br />When asked by Fox 5 News reporter Dr. Sapna Parikh, "Is it possible that a spinal manipulation could damage one of these arteries?"<br /><br />Dr. Minardo responded, "With the forces being 1/9th that is necessary to damage a vertebral artery, it would be virtually impossible, with a competently produced spinal manipulation, to cause that kind of damage."<br /><br />However neurologist, Dr. Keith Siller, M.D. says, "I don't think I agree with that... I think we're not sure exactly how much force is needed to create this situation."<br /><br />Dr. William Lauretti, D.C. the Spokesperson for the American Chiropractic Association issued the following statement:<br /><br />"According to the American Chiropractic Association the best scientific evidence to date shows that stroke is not a risk of cervical spine manipulation. Any incident where a stroke follows a manipulation is coincidental."<br /><br />Despite the ACA's position, Michael McCormick wants people to know what happened to his wife Kim after she received a chiropractic adjustment, he even testified about it before lawmakers in Connecticut back in February. McCormick is currently working to get legislation passed in Connecticut requiring chiropractors to inform patients of the risks and have them sign off on it before they undergo any treatment.<br /><br />"I'm not advocating against chiropracty, but if people are going to go," says McCormick, "Just to make them aware that, that this is a possibility."<br /><br />And this issue will be addressed again on January 5 and 6, 2010. The Connecticut State Board of Chiropractic Examiners will hold a hearing to determine if chiropractors should be required to inform patients of the risk of stroke before performing a manipulation.<br /><br />In the meantime, "chiropractic stroke"-awareness groups hope one day new legislation will force chiropractors to warn patients of risks in advance of a spinal manipulation, and also make it a requirement for patients to receive a discharge summary explaining the signs and symptoms of a stroke that they should watch out for after the spinal manipulation is complete.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table border="1" bgcolor="#0099ff"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form method="post" action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp"><input value="29557" type="hidden" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input value="subscribe" type="submit" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-15576848249137853512009-11-12T04:34:00.004+01:002011-02-07T08:05:48.079+01:00Kimkins - Notice of Pendency of Class NoticeI think my readers will be interested in this. <br /><br /><a href="http://saynotokimkins.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/notice-of-pendency-of-class-action/">Kimkins - Notice of Pendency of Class Notice</a><br /><br /><br />NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION<br /><br />TO: EVERYONE WHO PURCHASED A MEMBERSHIP TO KIMKINS.COM THROUGH THE KIMKINS.COM WEB SITE (www.kimkins.com) FROM JANUARY 1, 2006 TO OCTOBER 15, 2007<br /><br />PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT THAT IS CURRENTLY PENDING IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, IN RIVERSIDE, CALILFORNIA.<br /><br />INTRODUCTION<br /><br />1. On May 20, 2009, the Riverside County Superior Court, located in Riverside, California, issued an order certifying this case to proceed as a class action.<br /><br />2. The plaintiffs are six individuals who bought memberships to kimkins.com through the kimkins.com Website (www.kimkins.com) from January 1, 2006 to October 15, 2007. The defendants are Heidi Diaz, an individual, and Kimkins (also known as Kimkins.com), a business entity that conducts business in Corona, California.<br /><br />3. The plaintiffs contend that Diaz and Kimkins.com induced them into buying memberships for kimkins.com through false and misleading information provided on the Kimkins.com Web site. The plaintiffs contend that the defendants violated California Business & Professions Code § 17200, et seq., which authorizes courts to provide relief from unfair, unlawful, and fraudulent business practices. The plaintiffs also contend that Diaz and Kimkins.com violated common law prohibitions against fraud and negligent misrepresentation.<br /><br />4. This notice provides you with information regarding the litigation, including the plaintiffs’ claims against the defendants and the current status of the litigation. This notice also provides you with information regarding the court’s class-certification order.<br /><br />THE LITIGATION<br /><br />The Plaintiffs’ Claims<br /><br />5. This lawsuit is based on the plaintiffs’ claims that Diaz and Kimkins used unfair, unlawful, or fraudulent business practices to induce them into buying memberships to Kimkins.com. This lawsuit is also based on the plaintiffs’ claims that the false and misleading information contained on the kimkins.com Web site constituted fraud or negligent misrepresentation by Diaz and Kimkins.<br /><br />6. Here’s a list of the kinds of misconduct that the plaintiffs have alleged:<br /><br />• that Diaz and Kimkins concocted a false persona, “Kim Drake” or “Kimmer” to sell memberships to Kimkins.com<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins misled potential members into believing that “Kim Drake” was real by using photos of real women and then falsely claiming that the photos depicted “Drake”<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins posted lied about “Drake’s” purported weight loss<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins provided false or misleading information to Women’s World magazine<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins fabricated 41 “success stories” and published on the Kimkins.com Web<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins made up celebrity endorsements<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins misused labels and metatags to steer Internet traffic to the Kimkins.com Website, in violation of the law<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins misled potential members into believing that they were buying lifetime memberships, when in fact Diaz and Kimkins.com terminated memberships at their whim<br />• that Diaz and Kimkins intended to mislead potential members and assumed that potential members would rely on her misrepresentations.<br /><br />The Defendants’ Position<br /><br />7. Diaz and Kimkins have denied all allegations of wrongdoing and liability, and they continue to deny that they have done anything wrong. Diaz and Kimkins also have asserted various affirmative defenses to the plaintiffs’ claims.<br /><br />THE COURT’S CLASS-CERTIFICATION ORDER<br /><br />8. In an order filed May 20, 2009, the Court granted the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification. The Court certified for class treatment the plaintiffs’ claims for equitable relief, including disgorgement of the subscription fees paid to Diaz and Kimkins by the plaintiffs and the members of the class.<br /><br />9. The certified class is defined as all individuals who purchased the Kimkins.com diet membership on-line from the Kimkins.com Web site from January 1, 2006 through October 15, 2007.<br /><br />THE COURT HAS NOT EXPRESSED ANY OPINIONS<br />REGARDING THE MERITS OF THE PLAINTIFFS’ CLAIMS<br /><br />10. The Court ordered that this notice be provided to advise class members that this case is pending and that the Court has certified the case to proceed as a class action. You should not consider this notice or its mailing to be a statement by the Court that the plaintiffs are right or that their claims will prevail.<br /><br />INSTRUCTIONS TO CLASS MEMBERS<br /><br />11. You do not need to do anything to remain a member of the class. If you bought a Kimkins.com diet membership on-line from the Kimkins.com Web site from January 1, 2006 through October 15, 2007—including either of those dates—you are automatically included in the class. Your rights will be represented by the plaintiffs and their attorneys. You will not be personally responsible for any attorney fees or for the any of the costs of this litigation.<br /><br />OPT OUT OF CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT<br /><br />12. You have the opportunity to opt out of the class action lawsuit as detailed herein. If you incurred a personal injury as a result of using the Kimkins.com aka Kimkins Diet, you have a right to opt out. Notices to opt must be sent to jtiedt@tiedtlaw.com or mailed to Tiedt & Hurd at 980 Montecito Drive, Suite 209, Corona, California 92879.<br /><br />WHERE TO GO & WHOM TO CONTACT<br />SHOULD YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION<br /><br />13. This notice provides only a brief summary of this litigation. For further details, you should take one or both of the following steps:<br /><br />• Review the documents in the Court’s file for this lawsuit. Many of these documents may be viewed or obtained on-line at the following URL: http://public-access.riverside.courts.ca.gov/OpenAccess/ . You also may review the Court’s file in person by going to the Office of the Clerk of the Court for the Riverside Superior Court, during regular business hours. The Clerk’s office is located at 4050 Main Street, Riverside, California 92501.<br /><br />• Write a letter to the attorneys who are representing the plaintiffs and whom the Court has appointed to represent the class. Here are their names and their contact information:<br /><br />John E. Tiedt & Marc S. Hurd<br />Tiedt & Hurd<br />980 Montecito Drive, Suite 209<br />Corona, California 92879<br /><br />Michael L. Cohen<br />Michael L. Cohen, a PLC<br />707 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 4100<br />Los Angeles, California 90017<br /><br />Ray Moore<br />Moore Winter McLennan LLP<br />701 N. Brand Blvd., Suite 200<br />Glendale, California 92103-4232<br /><br />If you decide to contact one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, please do so in writing. To make it easier for them or one of their staff members to respond, however, your letter should include both your e-mail address and your telephone number.<br /><br />There are estimated to be as many as 40,000 members in the class. So please, DO NOT CALL THE COURT OR ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE COURT BY E-MAIL.<br /><br />DATE: ___________________________, 2009<br /><br />____________________________________<br />Hon. _________________________,<br />Presiding Judge<br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-3606463513019319552009-07-12T07:37:00.000+02:002009-09-15T07:41:40.971+02:00Brief Expositions of Rational MedicineBrief Expositions of Rational Medicine<br />(Homeopathy and more)<br /> <br /><br />Here are some interesting excerpts from a little (75 page), hardback, gem of a book I bought at a yard sale in Angwin, northern California, back in 1975. The author was amazingly level-headed, and ahead of his time, considering some of the medical practices that were still common at the time. We also have here the solution to the mystery of who coined the expression, "self-limiting diseases". His observations are still good common sense today.<br /><br />***<br /><br />"Brief Expositions of Rational Medicine": To Which Is Prefixed "The Paradise of Doctors, A Fable"<br /><br />by Jacob Bigelow, M.D.,<br /><br />Late President of the Massachusetts Medical Society,<br />Physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital, etc.,<br /><br />Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 13 Winter Street.<br />1858<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />"An old lady, whose shrill voice drew immediate attention, protested against violent measures of all kinds, and moved, as a middle course, that resort should be had to homeopathy. It never did any harm, and was very comforting, especially when well recommended by the physician. It cured her child of the measles in six weeks, and her-self of a broken leg in six months, during which time she had two hundred and ninety-five visits, and took more than fifteen hundred globules. She had walked to the meeting on her crutches to exhibit to the assembly the astonishing powers of the Hahnemannic system.<br /><br />Here she was rudely interrupted by a bluff marketer, who somewhat rudely pronounced homeopathy to be a great humbug, since, but a short time before, his child had eaten part of a raw pumpkin, and was seized with convulsions; and the physician who was sent for, instead of taking measures to dislodge the offending cause, took out a little book, and remarking to the by-standers that "like cures like," proceeded to prescribe the hundred millionth part of another pumpkin.<br /><br />The next person who rose was a manufacturer, who had calculated that the homeo-pathic profit on the cost of the raw material was altogether unreasonable. He had him-self expended seventy-five dollars in a quarter of a grain of belladonna, so divided as to keep off scarlet fever; but found, after all, that he had not bought enough, for his child-ren had the disease a little worse than any of their neighbors." - p. 15.<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />"The methods which, at the present day, are most prevalent in civilized countries, in the treatment of disease, may be denominated the following:<br /><br />1. The ARTIFICIAL method, which, when carried to excess, is commonly termed heroic, and which consists in reliance on artificial remedies, usually of an active char-acter, in the expectation that they will of themselves remove diseases.<br /><br />2. The EXPECTANT method. This consists simply in non-interference, leaving the chance of recovery to the powers of nature, uninfluenced by interpositions of art.<br /><br />3. The HOMEOPATHIC method. This is a counterfeit of the last, and consists in leaving the case to nature, while the patient is amused with nominal and nugatory re-medies.<br /><br />4. The EXCLUSIVE method, which applies one remedy to all diseases, or to a maj-ority of diseases. This head includes hydropathy, also the use of various mineral waters, electrical establishments, etc. Drugs newly introduced, and especially secret medicines, frequently boast this universality of application.<br /><br />5. The RATIONAL method. This recognizes nature as the great agent in the cure of diseases, and employs art as an auxiliary, to be resorted to when useful or necessary, and avoided when prejudicial." - pp. 26-27.<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />"The public, however, expect something more of physicians than the power of distin-guishing diseases, and of predicting their issue. They look to them for the relief of their sufferings, and the cure or removal of their complaints. And the vulgar estimate of the powers of medicine is founded on the common acceptation of the name, that medicine is the art of curing diseases. That this is a false definition, is evident from the fact that many diseases are incurable, and that one such disease must at last happen to every liv-ing man. A far more just definition would be, that medicine is the art of understanding diseases, and of curing or relieving them when possible. If this definition were accepted, and its truth generally understood by the profession and the public, a weight of super-fluous responsibility on one side, and of dissatisfaction on the other, would be lifted from the shoulders of both. It is because physicians allow themselves to profess and vaunt more power over disease than belongs to them, that their occasional shortcomings are made a ground of reproach with the community, and of contention among them-selves. . .<br /><br />". . . certain diseases are 'self-limited' (This term was first introduced by the writer in a discourse in 1835, . . )" - pp. 20-30.<br />[Here the writer refers to himself in the third person. - PL]<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />"The great objects which medical practice professes to effect, and which there can be no doubt that it frequently does effect, are the following:<br /><br />1. The cure of certain diseases.<br /><br />2. The relief or palliation of all diseases.<br /><br />3. The safe conduct of the sick.<br /><br />"In all these objects it sometimes fails; yet, instances of its success are sufficiently nu-merous to establish the necessity of the existence of medicine as a profession." - p. 31.<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />"3. "THE HOMEOPATHIC METHOD. -- Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restor-ative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions, . . ." - pp. 41-42.<br /><br /><br />***<br /><br />If you're lucky, you may be able to find this book in a used book store.<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-17615766937609814192009-06-28T03:05:00.001+02:002009-06-28T03:13:46.649+02:00SimonSingh.netAn interesting website:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.simonsingh.net/home.html">SimonSingh.net</a><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-60584945313979080922009-06-17T19:47:00.000+02:002009-06-18T04:51:14.813+02:00Chirocopalypse: British chiropractors running scaredThe bad publicity for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic">chiropractic</a>, caused by the libel suit filed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Association">British Chiropractic Association</a> against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Singh">Simon Singh</a>, is causing the profession to panic. The case is beginning to become a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory">Pyrrhic victory</a> and an example of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect">Streisand effect</a> for the profession, with the charity <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_About_Science">Sense About Science</a> nipping at their heels with a very successful campaign in defense of Singh, with over 10,000 signers and loads of publicity. Several scientific skeptics have already targetted over 500 chiropractors and filed formal complaints against them.<br /><br />The situation is like a group of rabbits being spotted by a hunting dog. They have hoped to remain unseen by the hunter (the public), but they have made the mistake of making fun of the dog, and now the hunt is on. They and their dubious practices are now very, very visible and publicized by the entire British press and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_enUS331US331&q=mctimoney+simon+singh+chiropractic+libel">numerous websites</a>!<br /><br />The British Chiropractic Association, McTimoney Chiropractic Association, and the United Chiropractic Association have all sent letters to their members. They are running scared and are doing what they can to keep their members from getting prosecuted. The McTimoney Chiropractic Association has even blanked its own website and asked its members to delete their websites, thus hiding possibly incriminating evidence. Fortunately some resourceful bloggers had already made copies of ALL their websites, so the evidence is now available when necessary.<br /><strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The British Chiropractic Association letter</span></strong><br /><br />The British Chiropractic Association has acted like a startled rabbit and has bolted. They have written a letter to their members:<br /><br /><blockquote>4 June 2009<br /><br />The BCA would remind members of their obligations under the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) section 50 (relating to Health & Beauty Products and Therapies: see<br /><br />Members are strongly encouraged to review their current marketing materials (whether they are paper- or web-based to ensure that they are compliant with both ASA and GCC requirements. Note that the ASA has no jurisdiction over editorial materials placed on members own websites.<br /><br />When reviewing your materials it may be helpful to consider the following:<br /><br />1. Are there any claims made that cannot be justified by reference to evidence? Remember, the GCC requires chiropractors to practice evidence based care, which is defined as “clinical practice that incorporates the best available evidence from research, the preferences of the patient and the expertise of practitioners (which includes the individual chiropractor himself).<br /><br />2. Be mindful of making promises that you cannot be sure of delivering on;<br /><br />3. Be wary of listing conditions that are controversial and away from mainstream chiropractic care e.g. dyslexia/dyspraxia unless you have research to back this up. If you have made references to prolonged crying, sleep and feeding problems, breathing difficulties and frequent infections, as these are symptoms rather than condition specific, we suggest you remove these references.<br /><br />4. Do not refer to yourself as a specialist in any particular form of chiropractic;<br /><br />5. Do not use unfamiliar words for common conditions;<br /><br />6. Do not unjustly criticise other healthcare professionals;<br /><br />7. If you refer to subluxations, provide information to explain what they are.<br /><br />8. Take care in the use of the Doctor title. Ensure that there is no way there can be any doubt that you are a chiropractor, and not a registered medical practitioner. Do not use the doctor title in paper advertising without explicitly stating that you are a chiropractor.</blockquote><br /><br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/british-chiropractic-association-tell-their-members-to-hide-their-sins-from-prying-eyes/">British Chiropractic Association tell their members to hide their sins from prying eyes</a><br /><br />.... which found the letter on ex- General Chiropractic Council (GCC) board member Richard Lanigan’s blog:<br /><br /><li><a href="http://chiropracticlive.com/advertising-standards/scope-of-practise-by-the-back-door/">Scope of medipractic practise by the back door of the General Chiropractic Council</a><br /><br /><p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The McTimoney Chiropractic Association letter</span><br /></p></strong><br /><br />Another rabbit, the McTimoney Chiropractic Association, has twitched and then bolted, even removing most content from its own website(s),[<a href="http://www.mctimoney-chiropractic-ireland.org/">8</a>] [<a href="http://www.mctimoney-chiropractic.org/">9</a>] and has asked its members to do the same! It has even sent the following "confidential advice" letter to its members:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>Date: 8 June 2009 09:12:18 BDT<br /><br />Subject: FURTHER URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!<br /><br />Dear Member<br /><br />If you are reading this, we assume you have also read the urgent email we sent you last Friday. If you did not read it, READ IT VERY CAREFULLY NOW and - this is most important – ACT ON IT. This is not scaremongering. We judge this to be a real threat to you and your practice.<br /><br />Because of what we consider to be a witch hunt against chiropractors, we are now issuing the following advice:<br /><br />The target of the campaigners is now any claims for treatment that cannot be substantiated with chiropractic research. The safest thing for everyone to do is as follows.<br /><br />1. If you have a website, take it down NOW. When you have done that, please let us know preferably by email or by phone. This will save our valuable time chasing you to see whether it has been done.<br /><br />2. REMOVE all the blue MCA patient information leaflets, or any patient information leaflets of your own that state you treat whiplash, colic or other childhood problems in your clinic or at any other site where they might be displayed with your contact details on them. DO NOT USE them until further notice. The MCA are working on an interim replacement leaflet which will be sent to you shortly.<br /><br />3. If you have not done so already, enter your name followed by the word ‘chiropractor’ into a search engine such as Google (e.g. Joe Bloggs chiropractor) and you will be able to ascertain what information about you is in the public domain e.g. where you might be listed using the Doctor title or where you might be linked with a website which might implicate you. We have found that even if you do not have a website yourself you may still have been linked inadvertently to a website listing you or your services.<br /><br />CHECK ALL ENTRIES CAREFULLY AND IF IN DOUBT, CONTACT THE RELEVANT PROVIDER TO REMOVE YOUR INFORMATION.<br /><br />CHECK OUR PREVIOUS EMAILS FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE AND KEY WORDS TO AVOID.<br /><br />KEEP A LOG OF YOUR ACTIONS.<br /><br />4. If you use business cards or other stationery using the ‘doctor’ title and it does not clearly state that you are a doctor of chiropractic or that you are not a registered medical practitioner, STOP USING THEM immediately.<br /><br />5. Be wary of ‘mystery shopper’ phone calls and ‘drop ins’ to your practice, especially if they start asking about your care of children, or whiplash, or your evidence base for practice.<br /><br />IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE, YOU MAY BE AT RISK FROM PROSECUTION.<br /><br />IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE, THE MCA MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ASSIST YOU WITH ANY PROCEEDINGS.<br /><br />Although this advice may seem extreme or alarmist, its purpose is to protect you. The campaigners have a target of making a complaint against every chiropractor in the UK who they perceive to be in breach of the GCC’s CoP, the Advertising Standards Code and/or Trading Standards. We have discovered that complaints against more than 500 individual chiropractors have been sent to the GCC in the last 24 hours.<br /><br />Whatever you do, do not ignore this email and make yourself one of the victims. Some of our members have not followed our earlier advice and now have complaints made against them. We do not want that to happen to you.<br /><br />Even if you do not have a website, you are still at risk. Our latest information suggests that this group are now going through Yellow Pages entries. Be in no doubt, their intention is to scrutinise every single chiropractor in the UK.<br /><br />The MCA Executive has worked tirelessly over the last week keeping abreast of development and contacting at risk members. We have decided that this is our best course of action to protect you and the Association at this time of heightened tension. This advice is given to you solely to protect you from what we believe is a concerted campaign, and does not imply any wrongdoing on your part or the part of the Association. We believe that our best course of action is simply to withdraw from the battleground until this latest wave of targeting is over.<br /><br />Finally, we strongly suggest you do NOT discuss this with others, especially patients, Firstly it would not be ethical to burden patients with this, though if they ask we hope you now have information with which you can respond.<br /><br />Most importantly, this email and all correspondence from the MCA is confidential advice to MCA members alone, and should not be shared with anyone else.<br /><br />Please be aware that the office phone lines are likely to be busy, so, if you need our help, please send an email to the office and we will get back to you as soon as we can.<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />Berni Martin<br /><br />MCA Chair.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />Nicki<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencepunk/2009/06/panicking_chiropractors_order.php">Panicking chiropractors order slash-and-burn of their own websites.</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The United Chiropractic Association letter</span></strong><br /><br />The United Chiropractic Association has also reacted to the situation and sent a letter of its own:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>The UCA Office has become aware of the ongoing media coverage of the libel case involving the BCA and Simon Singh. As a result chiropractors are being targeted as part of a concerted campaign to discredit the profession, particularly in relation to the publicity materials they are using. The Investigating Committed of the GCC have a statutory responsibility to look into every complaint they receive. This is an attack on the profession which all chiropractors should be aware of.<br /><br />There is also evidence that complaints are being made to Trading Standards authorities, and several chiropractors have received enquiries from them. Before responding to any communications you might receive, please contact the UCA office in the first instance for help and advice.<br /><br />The BCA have issued the following statement to their members. The UCA fully supports this statement and recommends members to adhere to the points raised.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.layscience.net/node/594">'Chiropocalypse' Spreads to United Chiropractic Association and BCA </a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Some sources that cover the situation</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_enUS331US331&q=mctimoney+simon+singh+chiropractic+libel">Many sources</a> are covering the story. Here are a few:<br /><br /><li><a href="http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/british-chiropractic-association-tell-their-members-to-hide-their-sins-from-prying-eyes/">British Chiropractic Association tell their members to hide their sins from prying eyes</a><br /><li><a href="http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/500-chiropractors-reported-to-trading.html">500 Chiropractors reported to Trading Standards and GCC </a><br /><li><a href="http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/omnibus-complaint-to-general.html">Omnibus Complaint to the General Chiropractic Council</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.thinkhumanism.com/files/GCC%20Complaint%20for%20web.pdf">Complaints against 523 chiropractors</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/05/ok-so-how-many-chiroquacktors-claim-to.html">Ok, so how many chiroquacktors claim to treat colic?</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.reasoncheck.com/2009/06/11/chiropractors-running-scared/">Chiropractors running scared</a><br /><li><a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/06/the-simon-singh-libel-case-an-own-goal-for-chiropractic.html">The Simon Singh libel case: an own goal for chiropractic?</a><br /><li><a href="http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/06/quacklash-causes-and-effects.html">Jack of Kent: The Quacklash - Causes And Effects</a><br /><li><a href="http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/06/mctimoney-letter.html">Jack of Kent: The McTimoney Letter</a><br /><li><a href="http://layscience.net/node/593">Chiropractors in Mass Website Withdrawal</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html">McTimoney Chiropractors told to take down their web sites </a><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/10/chiropocalypse/">Chiropocalypse</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1686">The McTimoney Chiropractic Association would seem to believe that chiropractic is “bogus”</a><br /><li><a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/chris_macdonald/2009/06/10/british_chiropractors_retreating_from_publicity">British Chiropractors Retreating from Publicity </a><br /><li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencepunk/2009/06/panicking_chiropractors_order.php">Panicking chiropractors order slash-and-burn of their own websites </a><br /><li><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406916&c=1">Win or lose, the cost of fighting a libel suit chills science and journalism </a><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/06/petition_press_release_follow.html">The Great Beyond: Petition, press release follow libel campaign - June 08, 2009 </a><br /><br /><br /><table border="1" bgcolor="#0099ff"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form method="post" name="{5C088896-C4CC-4430-A6D8-9DC9D2BE379D}" action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp"><input value="29557" type="hidden" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input value="subscribe" type="submit" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></li>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-19151702947484448532009-05-17T06:33:00.000+02:002009-05-17T19:14:02.611+02:00Hot Air BalloonA woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.<br /><br />She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”<br /><br />The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.”<br /><br />She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a (political party) supporter!”<br /><br />“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”<br /><br />“Well,” answered the balloonist,” everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”<br /><br />The man smiled and responded, “You must be a government official”<br /><br />“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”<br /><br />“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going.<br />You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”<br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-60256679635104552962009-02-16T01:02:00.003+01:002009-02-16T01:09:14.696+01:00Homeopathy is worse than witchcraft - and the NHS must stop paying for it<strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-451908/Homeopathy-worse-witchcraft--NHS-stop-paying-it.html">Homeopathy is worse than witchcraft - and the NHS must stop paying for it</a></strong><br /><br />By KATE MAXWELL<br />Last updated at 09:57 01 May 2007<br /><br /><em>One of the UK's five homeopathic hospitals, The Royal London, is under threat of closure because of funding cuts. Professor Michael Baum, professor emeritus of surgery at University College London, explains why he won't miss it:</em><br /><br />Many people swear by homeopathy. It is a popular dinner party topic of the Hampstead set, of which I am a member. My friends - otherwise educated, cultured people - say it can help them recover from a cold in just seven days. Yes, I reply, and left alone it would take a whole week.<br /><br />The problem is that few people know what homeopathy really is. I'll tell you: it is a 200-year-old practice that hasn't changed since its inception.<br /><br />Homeopathy is based on three principles: treat the symptoms of a disease rather than the disease itself; cure like with like (an onion makes your eyes stream and so does a cold, so treat a cold with an onion); and the greater the dilution of the 'medicine', the more potent the potion.<br /><br />Some homeopathic tinctures contain so little of the magic ingredient there could just as easily be a molecule of my urine in them.<br /><br />Homeopathic companies are making a fortune marketing placebos. Yet, despite this, last September, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority approved the marketing of homeopathic remedies for 'self-limiting conditions' (these are conditions which should improve by themselves) - even if there is no evidence of their efficacy.<br /><br />This scares me. Homeopathy is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy: it's witchcraft - totally barmy, totally refuted, and yet it's available on the NHS. For while homeopathic medicine is not toxic, its use as an alternative to conventional medicine can, in fact, cause serious harm.<br /><br />Take insomnia, a so-called selflimiting condition - this makes it apparently 'suitable' for homeopathy. But insomnia can often be a symptom of depression, and if inadequately treated, depression can lead to suicide.<br /><br />The risks of patients relying solely on homeopathy are obvious. Chronic constipation is another example. This can be evidence of bowel cancer and yet people can blithely go on treating it with homeopathy without realising the risks of not seeking medical attention.<br /><br />And there are plenty of people who rely on homeopathy for conditions that are not described as self-limiting. Last year, a Newsnight programme revealed that young, eco-friendly backpackers are taking homeopathic prophylactics for malaria.<br />As a result, there is now an epidemic of malaria in people returning from the tropics.<br /><br />Even more distressing is the story of one of my patients - a very personable young woman with breast cancer who keeps coming back to see me even though she doesn't accept any of my advice.<br /><br />She could easily have been cured, but has refused surgery and conventional drugs in favour of hocus-pocus homeopathic remedies.<br /><br />Her tumour is getting bigger and bigger and has pushed through her skin - there is now an ulcer where once there was a small lump. She dresses it with honey and God knows what else and she thinks it is getting better.<br /><br />Yet there is a complete lack of clinical evidence to support alternative remedies. Medicine is based on evidence. If a drug or surgical treatment does not pass stringent clinical trials, it is abandoned.<br /><br />The results of clinical trials are published whether they are favourable or not. Yet, when it comes to homeopathy, the standards of evidence are highly questionable.<br /><br />Twenty years ago, I was invited to advise the Blackie Foundation Trust, a charitable foundation for the advancement of homeopathy, on clinical trials. I helped them carry out a trial on the effect of arnica on bruising caused by a traumatic childbirth, versus a placebo.<br /><br />At the end of the trial, the placebo came out better than the arnica. Strangely, the results were never published.<br /><br />This is not a lone case - there have been countless trials of homeopathic remedies in which they are compared to a placebo, but if only one positive result in 100 emerges, that is the one cited. This is, in my opinion, intellectual bankruptcy.<br /><br />What fired my interest in this subject was an address the Prince of Wales gave the British Medical Association, of which he was president, in 1982. In it, he demanded that a dialogue be established between alternative medicine and scientific medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine duly set up a series of workshops.<br /><br />I was asked to sit in and could not believe that in our rational age people were holding such bizzare beliefs that effectively negate 200 years of medical science. There was so much rubbish being spouted it was comparable to believing the world was flat. Someone claimed he could diagnose all illness by looking at the tongue.<br />I have enormous affection for the Royal Family, but I think it is totally inappropriate for the Prince to promote and endorse alternative remedies.<br /><br />So how do I feel about the news that the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, of which Prince Charles is a patron, may close? Well, two or three years ago we had two new drugs for breast cancer: Herceptin and aromatase inhibitors. They passed all the clinical trials but we had to wait until the NHS drugs watchdog, NICE, evaluated them for cost effectiveness.<br /><br />For two years we knew they could save lives but we weren't able to prescribe them. During that time, women died who didn't need to.<br /><br />During that time, the NHS Trust which runs University College Hospital, where I work, spent £20million - several times what we needed for the new drugs - on refurbishing the Royal London Homepathic Hospital. I felt bitter.<br /><br />The majority of homeopathic physicians are nice, kind people and they're not stupid.<br />They will claim homeopathy is a complementary therapy, not an alternative to medicine. But how does homeopathy complement other medicine? Bogus potions aren't complementary, they are a deception and provide false hope.<br /><br />What we don't have in the NHS is adequate palliative and supportive care that really does complement what people like me do. So I have a solution for the ailing Homeopathic Hospital and the £5million a year it receives from our NHS trust.<br /><br />Stop peddling placebos and turn the hospital into a centre for evidence-based, supportive care for people with life-threatening or terminal illnesses. A centre with psychologists, masseurs, counsellors, art and music therapists.<br /><br />Unlike homeopathy, these therapies have been critically evaluated: they are proven to enhance well-being. And add a research centre so we can further this area of healthcare.<br /><br />This will make a real difference to people's quality of life, because this is real complementary medicine.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-73751938674675080682009-01-07T05:57:00.002+01:002009-01-07T06:07:34.243+01:00Yelp User Faces Lawsuit Over Negative Review of ChiropractorA former chiropractic patient, Eric L. Nordskog, is being sued by his former chiropractor, Steven Biegel. Why? For publicly criticizing him! <br /><br />This is yet another example of chiropractic's cultish tendencies. Just like Scientology, chiropractors attempt to suppress the free speech rights of individuals. Please support this guy.<br /><br />Another lawsuit of a somewhat similar nature is occuring in England, where the noted journalist, Simon Singh, is currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for comments he wrote in a column in The Guardian. They echo contents in his book, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial, written together with another major authority in the alternative medicine field, Edzard Ernst, the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the United Kingdom.<br /><br />Yes, to the chiropractic profession, free speech is an enemy. The truth hurts.<br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-45605130761555828082008-10-19T17:21:00.004+02:002008-10-19T17:59:10.102+02:00Beware the spinal trap - Simon SinghBeware the spinal trap<br /><br /><em>Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all but research suggests chiropractic therapy can be lethal</em><br /><br />Simon Singh<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian">The Guardian</a>, Saturday April 19 2008<br />Article history [see below for controversial history]<br /><br />This is Chiropractic Awareness Week. So let's be aware. How about some awareness that may prevent harm and help you make truly informed choices? First, you might be surprised to know that the founder of chiropractic therapy, Daniel David Palmer, wrote that, "99% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae". In the 1860s, Palmer began to develop his theory that the spine was involved in almost every illness because the spinal cord connects the brain to the rest of the body. Therefore any misalignment could cause a problem in distant parts of the body.<br /><br />In fact, Palmer's first chiropractic intervention supposedly cured a man who had been profoundly deaf for 17 years. His second treatment was equally strange, because he claimed that he treated a patient with heart trouble by correcting a displaced vertebra.<br /><br />You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station. The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organisation is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments.<br /><br />I can confidently label these treatments as bogus because I have co-authored a book about alternative medicine with the world's first professor of complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst. He learned chiropractic techniques himself and used them as a doctor. This is when he began to see the need for some critical evaluation. Among other projects, he examined the evidence from 70 trials exploring the benefits of chiropractic therapy in conditions unrelated to the back. He found no evidence to suggest that chiropractors could treat any such conditions.<br /><br />But what about chiropractic in the context of treating back problems? Manipulating the spine can cure some problems, but results are mixed. To be fair, conventional approaches, such as physiotherapy, also struggle to treat back problems with any consistency. Nevertheless, conventional therapy is still preferable because of the serious dangers associated with chiropractic.<br /><br />In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. These are relatively minor effects, but the frequency is very high, and this has to be weighed against the limited benefit offered by chiropractors.<br /><br />More worryingly, the hallmark technique of the chiropractor, known as high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust, carries much more significant risks. This involves pushing joints beyond their natural range of motion by applying a short, sharp force. Although this is a safe procedure for most patients, others can suffer dislocations and fractures.<br /><br />Worse still, manipulation of the neck can damage the vertebral arteries, which supply blood to the brain. So-called vertebral dissection can ultimately cut off the blood supply, which in turn can lead to a stroke and even death. Because there is usually a delay between the vertebral dissection and the blockage of blood to the brain, the link between chiropractic and strokes went unnoticed for many years. Recently, however, it has been possible to identify cases where spinal manipulation has certainly been the cause of vertebral dissection.<br /><br />Laurie Mathiason was a 20-year-old Canadian waitress who visited a chiropractor 21 times between 1997 and 1998 to relieve her low-back pain. On her penultimate visit she complained of stiffness in her neck. That evening she began dropping plates at the restaurant, so she returned to the chiropractor. As the chiropractor manipulated her neck, Mathiason began to cry, her eyes started to roll, she foamed at the mouth and her body began to convulse. She was rushed to hospital, slipped into a coma and died three days later. At the inquest, the coroner declared: "Laurie died of a ruptured vertebral artery, which occurred in association with a chiropractic manipulation of the neck."<br /><br />This case is not unique. In Canada alone there have been several other women who have died after receiving chiropractic therapy, and Professor Ernst has identified about 700 cases of serious complications among the medical literature. This should be a major concern for health officials, particularly as under-reporting will mean that the actual number of cases is much higher.<br /><br />Bearing all of this in mind, I will leave you with one message for Chiropractic Awareness Week - if spinal manipulation were a drug with such serious adverse effects and so little demonstrable benefit, then it would almost certainly have been taken off the market.<br /><br />· Simon Singh is the co-author of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial<br /><a href="http://www.simonsingh.net/">http://www.simonsingh.net/</a><br /><br />About this article: This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday April 19 2008 on p26 of the Comment & debate section. It was last updated at 00:06 on April 19 2008.<br /><br />**********************************************<br /><br />This article by Simon Singh has an interesting history, as it has been removed from the Guardian's website because of a lawsuit filed by the British Chiropractic Association, which would rather use lawsuits than scientific evidence as a method for settling differences of scientific opinion, a practice totally foreign to scientific medicine, where discussion is the preferred method of settling such disputes. This is just another example of the cultic, unscientific nature of chiropractic.<br /><br />Here are Google searches for more about this situation, and the numerous other places on the internet where one can find copies of this "forbidden" article:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS238US238&q=%22beware+the+spinal+trap%22+%22simon+singh%22+sued">Google search for more information</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS238US238&q=%22British+Chiropractic+Association%22+%22simon+singh%22">More information about the British Chiropractic Association's lawsuit<br /></a><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-64405441892570185592008-03-29T07:12:00.002+01:002008-03-29T07:24:03.263+01:00Blog statusThis blog has not been maintained for some time, and in some cases may not be up to date. Consider it an information archive and use accordingly. Very little has been written by myself. If you have an issue with something, take it up with the author or quoted sources, not me. I have not been actively dealing with these matters for several years and am generally semiretired due to health issues in my later years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-50801881684741488822007-09-04T19:36:00.000+02:002007-09-04T19:37:30.144+02:00Dead patient's estate sues chiropractor & othersDead patient's estate sues<br /><br />The estate of a Santa Fe man who allegedly became a quadriplegic during a chiropractic session and later died is suing the chiropractor, St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and others for alleged malpractice.<br /><br />Gary Trujillo, 39, went to St. Vincent's emergency room Sept. 14 and Sept. 22, 2004 for neck pain and neurological symptoms, but doctors failed to diagnose a spinal lesion or mass, says the complaint filed Aug. 8 by lawyer Steven Farber.<br /><br />Trujillo, an auto mechanic, underwent treatments by Jerome Buenviaje at the Gonstead Family Chiropractic or New Mexico Family Chiropractic clinic, 3600 Rodeo Lane, says the complaint.<br /><br />On Oct. 4, 2004, while on the treatment table in Buenviaje's presence, Trujillo ``complained of losing sensation and became quadriplegic,'' says the complaint. It says Trujillo died on Jan. 30, 2005, because the chiropractic treatment ``aggravated the spinal lesion.''<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-88117527132463192792007-09-04T08:11:00.000+02:002007-09-04T08:13:35.525+02:00Postage Stamp Honors Crusader Against Chiropractic Malpractice Approved by US Postal Service<strong>Postage Stamp Honors Crusader Against Chiropractic Malpractice Approved by US Postal Service<br /></strong><a href="http://pdfserver.emediawire.com/pdfdownload/549594/pr.pdf"></a><br /><a href="http://pdfserver.emediawire.com/pdfdownload/549594/pr.pdf">Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.</a><br /><br />Victims of Chiropractic Abuse (<a onclick="linkClick( this.href );" href="http://www.vocact.com/" target="_blank">www.vocact.com</a>) has released a stamp honoring the life and legacy of Linda Solsbury, the courageous activist who started the push for chiropractic reform.<br />Westville, CT (PRWEB) August 29, 2007 -- Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc (VOCA) is proud to announce it has designed and released a stamp honoring the life and legacy of Linda Solsbury of New London. They are legitimate U.S. first-class postage stamps that can be used to mail any letter or package.<br /><br />In 1985 Ms. Solsbury became mute and paralyzed as the result of chiropractic manipulation. However, with the use of only one hand and a computer along with the help of attending nurses and local politicians she was able to lead efforts in 1993 to get a law passed in Connecticut requiring chiropractors to carry malpractice insurance, which the chiropractor who ruined her life did not have.<br /><br />Linda Solsbury died last year during an operation to relieve some of the effects of her injuries.<br /><br />"This stamp honoring Linda will help our efforts to promote awareness of the health hazards of chiropractic neck manipulation to the many people who will send, receive, or see the stamp," said Janet Levy, President of VOCA. "Linda was a true hero who worked diligently to warn the public that chiropractic is not without risks and she was a comfort to many other victims through her extensive email communications."<br /><br />Ms. Levy, along with hundreds of other people in the United States, suffered a stroke when a chiropractor dissected an artery in her neck.<br /><br />For more information call 203-982-4575.<br /><br />About Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc:Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc. (VOCA), <a onclick="linkClick( this.href );" href="http://www.vocact.com/" target="_blank">www.vocact.com</a>, was incorporated in May of 2005 to promote awareness of chiropractic risks through advocacy and legislation. VOCA seeks to require chiropractors to obtain informed consent from patients prior to treatment and believes malpractice claims against chiropractic physicians should be made public, just as they are for medical physicians.<br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-21982861850636408992007-09-04T08:02:00.000+02:002007-09-04T08:06:14.129+02:00VOCA Unveils Chiropractic Malpractice Postage Stamp Approved by US Postal Service<strong>VOCA Unveils Chiropractic Malpractice Postage Stamp Approved by US Postal Service</strong><br /><br /><em>Victims of Chiropractic Abuse releases a stamp about efforts to raise awareness of the risks of chiropractic treatment.</em><br /><br />Westville, CT (<a href="http://www.prweb.com/">PRWEB</a>) August 29, 2007 -- Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc (VOCA) is proud to announce it has designed and released a stamp commemorating and promoting its efforts to educate the public to the potentially severe health risks of chiropractic treatment. They are legitimate U.S. first-class postage stamps that can be used to mail any letter or package.<br /><br />"The stamp will promote awareness of the health hazards of chiropractic neck manipulation to the many people who will send, receive, or see the stamp," said Janet Levy, President of VOCA. "Each stamp is like a mini billboard boosting our efforts to shine light on the dangerous practice of chiropractic neck manipulation."<br /><br />Ms. Levy, along with hundreds of other people in the United States, suffered a stroke when a chiropractor dissected an artery in her neck.<br /><br />In May of this year Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law SB-249 (Public Act No. 07-25) which - for the first time in Connecticut - makes chiropractor malpractice records public information. It followed unanimous approval by both houses of the Connecticut General Assembly.<br /><br />For more information call 203-982-4575 or email voca93(at)gmail.com or chirostroke(at)gmail.com.<br /><br />About Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc:Victims of Chiropractic Abuse, Inc. (VOCA), <a onclick="linkClick( this.href );" href="http://www.vocact.com/" target="_blank">www.vocact.com</a>, was incorporated in May of 2005 to promote awareness of chiropractic risks through advocacy and legislation. VOCA seeks to require chiropractors to obtain informed consent from patients prior to treatment and believes malpractice claims against chiropractic physicians should be made public, just as they are for medical physicians.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-71613362270740911302007-07-31T16:08:00.000+02:002007-07-31T16:20:23.423+02:00Interesting observations from a chiropractorInteresting observations from chiropractor <a class="group1" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=kenniemanndc">KenNiemann</a>, linked here without comment:<br /><br />Source:<br /><a class="nav" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi">California Center For Fitness & Functional Medicine</a> :: <a class="nav" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi#Therapies">Therapies</a> :: <a class="nav" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic">Chiropractic</a> <a href="javascript:popWindow(" board="Chiropractic');""></a><br /><br /><br />The comments:<br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1142764684">Chirotalk & Quackwatch</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1163529622">Mancini can't come to the table</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1140072625">Chiropractic Theory is Incoherent</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1111742478">Nat'l Board of Chiropractic Examiners- Quackery</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1142755246">Mainstream: Murphy's Waterloo</a><br /><br /><a class="group1" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=kenniemanndc"></a><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1140076483">Bigg's Incommensurability</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1163528828">Patient Satisfaction-Useless </a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1163374414">Intracranial hypotension & chiropractic </a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1151432045">Chiropractic and strokes</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1156749311">Not my cup of tea</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1140077569">Impending doom?</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1140075461">A Great One Falls: Cheryl Hawk succumbs to PM </a><br /><br /><a class="group1" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=kenniemanndc"></a><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1156142157">Activator Methods?</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1140073523">Example of Chiropractic pediatrics quackery</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1141608638">Badanes on Chiropractic</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1150960933">Chiros do not put bones back in place</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1150266825">David Singer</a><br /><br /><a class="group1" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=kenniemanndc"></a><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1150266530">Deconstructing William Meeker</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1149570115">Chiropractic Best Practices on LBP</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1149569440">More NBCE quackery</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" href="http://ccffm.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=Chiropractic&action=display&thread=1149568256">Ernst finds little value in chiropractic</a><br /><br /><a onclick="pb_bubble=" 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Introduction: <span style="color:#ff0000;">Read before proceeding!</span><br /><br />2. Three films worth seeing<br /><br />3. References and articles<br /><br />4. Risks Related to Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: Consequences for Evidence Based Practice<br /><br />..... and as a bonus....;-)<br /><br />5. The FSU School of Pseudoscience Scandal<br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Part 1. Introduction:</span></strong><br /><br />This blog entry is not a normal article, but a collection of sources and research on the subject. To benefit from it, make extensive use of the hyperlinks and read those sources. Above all, let the benefit of the doubt fall on the side of patient safety, not on the protection of a profession.<br /><br /><br /><strong>My views on this subject <span style="color:#ff0000;">(The Obligatory Disclaimer....;-)</span>:</strong><br /><br />- The message of this blog entry should be taken seriously by <strong>all</strong> involved professions, not by chiropractors alone.<br /><br />- It is only directed mainly at chiropractors because they are the ones who stand for the greatest number of injuries and deaths, and they are the ones in denial. If they weren't so adamant in their denial, then a great deal of the focus of criticism would be removed from them.<br /><br />- I don't believe that high neck manipulation has a very high risk of causing serious injury, but when it happens, it can be catastrophic.<br /><br />- I don't believe that high neck manipulation should be banned entirely. It should be reserved for extremely rare situations, and performed under extremely well-controlled conditions. Those situations are so rare as to be out of the range of ordinary DCs, PTs, DOs, or MDs.<br /><br />- I believe that all involved professions should adopt the same policy of limited use. That policy shouldn't apply to chiropractors alone.<br /><br />- I don't believe that any supposed benefits outweigh the risks.<br /><br />- I don't believe there is normally any excuse for using it, especially since other effective methods with less risk are easily available.<br /><br />- I hope that this blog entry will facilitate an adoption of a limited-use policy, both for the protection of the public, and for an improvement in the standards for diagnostic and treatment methods for problems that somehow involve the cervical spine.<br /><br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Part 2. Three films worth seeing:</span></strong><br /><br />The <strong>first film</strong> will come as a real shock to anyone who thinks chiropractic is completely safe. The chiropractic industry does all it can to hush this down, but dead patients do tell tales.<br /><br />Do you want to see a chiropractic leader squirm while he attempts to distort and downplay the evidence against potentially lethal chiropractic neck manipulations? His face just reeks of delusional (dare I say deceptive?) denial as he desperately attempts to avoid admitting the truth.<br /><br />Man does he squirm!! It's really rather amusing.....;-), but actually it's rather pitiful that he isn't smart enough to admit that chiropractic's diller is hanging out for all to see, when he is publicly presented with the evidence that its zipper is open. He doesn't even have smarts enough to admit it, and then later deny or reinterpret his "admission".<br /><br />Well, Hagan McQuaid, International Vice-President of the Chiropractic Association of Ireland does just that in this excellent exposé.<br /><br />There are extensive interviews with key players, including injured patients, surviving family members, doctors, researchers, etc. It is well worth taking the time to see it in its entirety.<br /><br />RTE News - Prime Time May 5, 2005<br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0505/primetime.html">Dangers of alternative medicine</a> 35 min.<br /><br />Presented by Donagh Diamond<br /><br />You can <strong>watch the <a href="http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2042798.smil">entire show</a></strong>, or watch individual reports using the menu below.<br /><br /><li><a href="http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2042799.smil">Dangers of alternative medicine</a> 35 min.<br /><br /><li><a href="http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2042800.smil">Donagh Diamond explores the fascination with alternative medicines and the dangers of chiropractic therapy.</a><br /><br /><strong>(If the film doesn't start promptly, just try again. Sometimes it doesn't connect on the first try.)</strong><br /><br />You need <a href="http://www.real.com/">RealPlayer</a> for it to play.<br /><br />Free Download: 14 Day free trial. If you cancel, the basic player is yours to keep!<br /><br /><br />******<br /><br /><strong>The second film:</strong><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.neck911usa.com/vide.htm"><strong>Is A Headache Worth Dying For?</strong></a> 2 min.<br /><br /><br />******<br /><br /><strong>The third video:</strong><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/saf/1210/video/watchonline.htm"><strong>Adjusting the Joints: Video</strong></a> - PBS<br /><br />(Go to the "Adjusting the Joints" section. Then turn on your speakers and watch the video.)<br /><br />It was hosted by Alan Alda and features filmed interviews with believers and skeptics alike.<br /><br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Part 3. References and articles</span></strong><br /><br /><li><strong><a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/1/40">Spinal manipulation: Its safety is uncertain</a><br /><br />"One gets the impression that the risks of spinal manipulation are being played down, particularly by chiropractors. Perhaps the best indication that this is true are estimates of incidence rates based on assumptions, which are unproven at best and unrealistic at worse. One such assumption, for instance, is that 10% of actual complications will be reported. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Our recent survey, however, demonstrated an under-reporting rate of 100%.</span> This extreme level of underreporting obviously renders estimates nonsensical."</strong><br />-- Dr. Edzard Ernst, British professor of complementary medicine<br /><br /><strong>The whole "risk" situation can be likened to an iceberg.</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6071/469/1600/Iceberg.gif"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6071/469/320/Iceberg.gif" border="0" /></a>I am not speaking of the *size* of the self-created iceberg in chiropractic's own back yard fishpond, in relation to the size of other icebergs in Arctic waters, where they are unavoidable.<br /><br />While chiropractors would have us believe that the visible portion of the "iceberg" is much smaller than is apparent, more and more scientists, doctors, and patients are becoming aware of the fact that every iceberg has a hidden mass of great size, and - in the case of chiropractic neck manipulations - that mass is apparently much larger than anyone has imagined.<br /><br /><em>"Most of the ice in an iceberg is underwater, leaving only the “tip of the iceberg” visible — a fact that is often alluded to in discussions of subjects <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>in which the most important aspects are hidden from view</strong>." -</span> (<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/iceberg">source</a>)</em><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">This</span></em></strong> is what some chiropractic leaders attempt to do when they <a href="http://www.canoe.ca/ChiroYork/lana_lewis.html">deliberately and deceptively deny</a> that the iceberg exists at all. They try to hide, minimize and trivialize any danger. One Danish chiropractic research study on the subject even suggests that cases are <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8902665&dopt=Abstract">overreported</a>, rather than underreported!<br /><br />While misreporting occasionally occurs, actual overreporting is a virtual impossibility, since for every case that actually gets discovered, there are many that never get discovered, and are therefore never reported. That's called <em><strong>underreporting</strong></em>, which one (the only?) study (above) found to occur at a rate of 100%. That's <strong>massive</strong> under-reporting!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Here is an example of a chiropractor in total denial:</strong><br /><br /><strong>grizzdoc</strong><br /><em>The stroke connection is a <strong>smokescreen</strong> to keep the heat off of medicine's dangers and fraud. There is <strong>no chiropractic connection to stroke.</strong> It is recognized by all major stroke authorities that unlike smoking, weight, various medications, etc., etc., chiropractic is not a cause of stroke. Except of course, in Ontario where krazy pediatrician Murray Katz and angry Polevoy reside. There the populace is dropping dead from chiropractic just by the mere utterance of the word.<br /><br />The stroke connection is <strong>a fake idea</strong> hatched by Katz, probably with the other hate-filled MD's help, to put chiropractic and stroke in the same sentence to scare away patients from chiropractors. Starting in Canada with the help of a neurologist named Norris who admitted under oath at an official inquest that his findings was all BS.</em><br />(emphasis added - PL)<br /><a href="http://www.thehealthforums.com/archive/index.php/t-12639.html">http://www.thehealthforums.com/archive/index.php/t-12639.html</a><br /><br /><br />When chiropractors and their leaders fail to convince us that there are few or no deaths and risks, they try another ruse, and begin comparing the risks associated with <em><strong>unnecessary and avoidable</strong></em> neck manipulations, with the risks associated with brain surgery and other <em><strong>complicated, risky and necessary</strong></em> medical procedures.<br /><br /><br /><strong></li></strong><strong><li><a href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chirostroke.html">Chiropractic's Dirty Secret: Neck Manipulation and Strokes</a></strong></li><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6071/469/1600/vertebral_artery.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6071/469/320/vertebral_artery.jpg" border="0" /></a><em>"The vertebral artery is shown in the picture to the left. The anatomical problem is illustrated on page 7 of The Chiropractic Report, July 1999. A blood clot formed over the injured area may subsequently be dislodged and block a smaller artery that supplies the brain. Less frequently, the vessel may be blocked by blood that collects in the vessel wall at the site of the dissection."</em> [<a href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chirostroke.html">source</a>]<br /><br /><em>"Because of the close anatomical relationship between the vertebral arteries and the cervical spine, chiropractic manipulation or neck rotation may traumatize the vertebral arteries in the neck. The damaged arteries may occlude with thrombus or undergo dissection."</em> <a href="http://www.emedicine.com/pmr/topic143.htm">source</a><br /><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/chiropractic-therapy-for-neck-pain-may.html">Chiropractic Therapy for Neck Pain May Have High Rate of Adverse Reactions</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.theahl.com/HealthAlternativeColumns/020207.html">Neck manipulation may cause strokes</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/ChiroYork">Spin Doctors I: The Interactive Investigation</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/PedChiro/home.html">Spin Doctors II: Manipulating Children</a><br /><br /><br />The following is the best study on the subject to date:<br /><strong></li></strong><strong><li><a href="http://www.ptjournal.org/cgi/content/full/79/1/50">Manipulation of the cervical spine: risks and benefits</a></strong></li><br />(Richard P Di Fabio, PHYS THER, Vol. 79, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 50-65)<br /><br />The graphs are interesting, especially <a href="http://www.ptjournal.org/cgi/content/full/79/1/50/F2">Figure 2</a>, where the type of practitioner was adjusted according to the findings by Terrett.<br /><br />DCs were involved in a little more than 60% of all cases of injuries and deaths, and PTs were involved in less than 2% of all cases, with no deaths caused by PTs. Death occurred in 32 cases.<br /><br />Before adjusting the numbers according to the findings by Terrett, it looked like DCs were involved in more cases than was actually the case. The revised figures made DCs look a very little bit better, but were still far too high. A casual glance at these numbers could lead to the partially incorrect conclusion, that manipulation, when performed by a chiropractor, is much more dangerous than when performed by other practitioners. No, that would not be entirely correct. They should be seen more as a reflexion of the fact that manipulation is most often performed by DCs.<br /><br />Regardless of who performs the manipulation - the more it gets done, the greater the risk. Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt. It needs to be used much more judiciously, by whoever it is that uses it, than most DCs use it today. If a PT or MD were to use spinal manipulation in precisely the same way, extent and frequency that DCs do, they would be exposing their patients to the same risks that chiropractic patients are exposed to every day. The statistics would then reveal more injuries from PTs and MDs.<br /><br />While the technique itself is potentially problematic, the attitude of most chiropractors towards it makes it doubly so when applied by them.<br /><br /><strong>Here is a conclusion from the summary of the article above:</strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">"The literature does not demonstrate that the benefits of MCS outweigh the risks."</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/9/1424">Spinal manipulative therapy is an independent risk factor for vertebral artery dissection</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/neurologic-complications-following.html">Neurologic complications following chiropractic manipulation: a survey of California neurologists</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Health0001/23_rodrigue.html">Woman paralyzed by chiropractic neck manipulation</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Health0001/23_barton.html">Chiropractic patient suffers stroke</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.neck911.com/">Neck911.com/</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.neck911usa.com/index.htm">Neck911USA</a><br /><br />The man behind this site, John W. Kinsinger, MD, has been named "Chiropractic Enemy #1" by <a href="http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/23/17/05.html">Dynamic Chiropractic</a>, the most widely read chiropractic publication.<br /><br />(More: <a href="http://www.chiroweb.com/chiroenemy/">An Interview With John W. Kinsinger, MD - July 7, 2005</a>)<br /><br />Among opposers of pseudoscience and quackery, a higher honor is hard to come by. Congratulations to Dr. Kinsinger!<br /><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.faact.com/">Families Against Abusive Chiropractic Treatments (FAACT)</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/2/638">Diaphragmatic Paralysis Following Cervical Chiropractic Manipulation : Case Report and Review</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Health0105/09_chiro-can.html">Stroke victims five times more likely to have visited chiropractor</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11292428&dopt=Abstract">Horner's syndrome and dissection of the internal carotid artery after chiropractic manipulation of the neck.</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/163/1/38">Sudden neck movement and cervical artery dissection</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/6/749-c">Cervical manipulation: How risky is it?</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.strokeconsortium.ca/PG-08ii.sp-about.html">Spontaneous vs Traumatic Arterial Dissection</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000419044751/http://www.medicalpost.com/mdlink/english/members/medpost/data/3603/16A.HTM">"Chiropractors distort info negative to their practice"</a><br />-- Sharon J. Mathiason (mother of a deceased victim)<br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.ncahf.org/nl/1996/11-12.html">Rand Finds Little Justification for Neck Manipulation</a><br /><br />"A 1996 Rand report on The Appropriateness of Manipulation and Mobilization of the Cervical Spine (Coulter 1996) . . . concluded that only 11.1 percent of reported indications for cervical manipulation could be labeled appropriate. A patient who receives regular, frequent, and totally unnecessary neck manipulation is subjected to greater risk." -- Dr. Samuel Homola, DC., Skeptical Inquirer, Jan./Feb. 2001.<br /><br /><li><a href="http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:oFrdqtMFbZkJ:www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/905.htm+%22www.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/905.htm%22&hl=en?E+mystore">Complications of Cervical Manipulation</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://www.skepticreport.com/health/strokespinal.htm">Stroke and Spinal Manipulation - by Preston H. Long, PhD, DC</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/02/deadly-quacks-neurologists-have-long.html">Deadly quacks: Neurologists have long protested the practice of 'highest neck manipulation,' which in some cases has resulted in lethal strokes</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-treatment-of-neck-can-be.html">Chiropractic treatment of the neck can be a risk factor for stroke</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/chiropractic-tied-to-rare-strokes.html">Chiropractic Tied to Rare Strokes</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://amr2you.blogspot.com/2005/05/is-chiropractic-really-complete.html">Is chiropractic really complete garbage? I was under the impression it was a legit medical thing</a><br /><br /><li><a href="http://amr2you.blogspot.com/2005/05/what-is-worth-knowing-about.html">What is worth knowing about the Chiropractic profession?</a><br /><br /><br />******<br /><br /><strong>From a former chiropractor:</strong><br /><br />"I have been doing a vascular surgery rotation for the past month, which is part of my postgraduate medical education. During my chiropractic training, when the subject of manipulation-induced stroke was brought up, we were reassured that "millions of chiropractic adjustments are made each year and only a few incidents of stroke have been reported following neck manipulation." I recently found that two of the patients on my vascular service that suffered a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) had undergone neck manipulation by a chiropractor, one the day that sympotms had begun and the other four days afterward. If indeed the incidence of stroke is rare, one M.D. would see a case of manipulation-induced CVA about every 10 years. But I believe I have seen two in the past month! I therefore urge my medical colleagues to question their patients regarding recent visits to a chiropractor/neck manipulation when confronted with patients that present with the neurologic symptoms of stroke. I also urge potential chiropractic patients to not allow their necks to be manipulated in any way. The risk-to-benefit ratio is much too high to warrant such a procedure."<br />-- <a href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chirostroke.html">Rob Alexander, M.D.</a><br /><br />******<br /><br /><strong>Nervous chiro customers....</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/157/1269/640/chironecks.jpg" /><br />Yes, even some cartoonists are aware of the dangers of neck manipulation!<br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Part 4. Risks Related to Manipulation of the Cervical Spine: </span><br /><em>Consequences for Evidence Based Practice</em></strong><br /><br /><center></center><strong>Precautionary Guidelines</strong><br /><br />1. Cervical manipulation, especially with rotation (the most commonly used method by chiropractors), should be considered a contraindicated technique.<br /><br />2. Manipulation of the upper cervical spine - otherwise known as the "cervicocranium" (the occipito-atlanto-axial region) - should be considered absolutely contraindicated. (This is also the area of the neck most commonly manipulated by many chiropractors, most likely as a hangover from BJ Palmer's "Hole-In-One" theory.)<br /><br />3. In principle these guidelines and cautions apply to all involved professions, since it is primarily the technique that is the problem, even though chiropractors are by far responsible for the greatest number of injuries, strokes, and deaths.<br /><br />This is a logical consequence of their exaggerated and unwarranted self-confidence and erroneous education, combined with their historically and educationally conditioned overrating of the value of spinal manipulation as a whole.<br /><br />4. All healthcare professions, including Emergency Room staff, must be alert to the possibility of injuries caused by spinal manipulative therapy (SMT). The patient's medical history should include questions about possible spinal manipulation within the last 30 days, at the very least.<br /><br />Symptoms and injuries can include: <em>headache, dizziness, vertigo, nausea, pain, strains, sprains, whiplash type injuries, Horner's syndrome, Wallenberg's syndrome, permanent or transient paralysis, blackouts, fainting, blod clots to the brain, and death.</em><br /><br />Few of these consequences, especially deaths, are ever identified as results of previous SMT, since autopsies are rarely performed in these cases. Since strokes can occur up to a month - and even later - after manipulation of the cervical spine, a suspicion of any connection is rarely awakened.<br /><br />5. When dealing with stroke cases, all MDs - be they general practitioners, specialists, pathologists, or coroners - should routinely examine the patient's (or deceased's) medical history (including interviews with relatives) for any cases of SMT within the previous 2-3 months, including number of times, since each repetition increases the risk.<br /><br />If this isn't done, the real extent of SMT induced strokes and deaths will not be exposed, and it will be impossible to institute preventive measures in harmony with quality control principles.<br /><br />6. Physical Therapists should encourage patients with such injuries to report them to their own doctors. (I can't be the only PT who has encountered patients with fractured spines, spinal stenosis, herniated discs, paralysis, stable fractures made unstable, severe sprains and strains, torn muscles, and unremitting headaches for years, all as a direct result of a specific chiropractic "adjustment". I have seen all of these injuries, but those who have died haven't come to me or their chiro, for obvious reasons.)<br /><br />7. Whiplash patients should never receive cervical manipulation, especially in the acute phase. Hairline fractures are easily overseen on x-rays at this point in time. This may create a false sense of security, resulting in treatment which can destabilize otherwise stable fractures. Such fractures become visible after a short time, often within a few weeks *if* the x-ray is taken from precisely the right angle, which isn't necessarily one of the standard angles.<br /><br /><strong>No more underreporting</strong><br /><br />The massive underreporting <a href="http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/1/40">(nearly 100%)</a> that is currently occurring must stop. Neurologists and Physical Therapists encounter these cases regularly, but may not be recognizing them. Awareness of the problem will help to bring far more cases to light. They should then be reported to centrally established centers in all lands.<br /><br />In Canada the <a href="http://www.strokeconsortium.ca/">Canadian Stroke Consortium</a> is attempting to uncover the real frequency of these injuries and deaths, since they are much more common than are indicated by chiropractic sources, where there is a vested interest to deny, ignore, and even <a href="http://canoe.ca/ChiroYork/lana_lewis.html">cover-up</a>, the problem.<br /><br /><strong>No excuse for manipulation of the cervical spine (MCS)</strong><br /><br />There is no excuse (with rare exception) for the manipulation of the cervical spine (MCS), especially in light of several facts:<br /><br />1. The majority of such manipulations are not indicated, especially when the problem is located elsewhere in the body. MCS in such cases constitutes gross malpractice and reckless endangerment.<br /><br />2. The real problems in the neck, head, and upper extremities, for which treatment of the neck is properly indicated, can be treated<br /><br />(a) without the use of MCS,<br /><br />(b) using other methods,<br /><br />(c) with longer lasting results, and<br /><br />(d) with much less risk than is involved with MCS.<br /><br /><br />I hope that these precautionary guidelines will become widely disseminated, properly adapted, and then formally adopted by all medical professions which deal with the locomotor system.<br /><br /><br />*********************************************************************************<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Part 5. The FSU School of Pseudoscience Scandal</span></strong><br /><br />The Florida State University flirt with a chiropractic school is covered extensively on this blog. Fortunately it was defeated.<br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/12/chiropractic-school-angers-fsu.html">Chiropractic school angers FSU professors</a><br /><br /><p align="left"><img height="171" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/157/1269/640/10.1.jpg" width="390" /></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;">[Times art]</span><br /></p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">To poke fun at Florida State University's bid for a chiropractic school, an FSU professor has created a new campus map. Opponents of the proposed school say more than 500 faculty members have signed petitions against it.<br /></span>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />To explore this issue, just use this blog's <a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/chiropractic-index-to-all-entries-here.html">Chiropractic Index</a> and check out all the posts preceded by "FSU".<br /><br />Here are a few of my very late entries in the debate. I doubt very many people read them before the final decision to drop the curtain on the project:<br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/action-alert-stop-fsu-school-of.html">Action Alert! Stop FSU School of Chiropractic </a>- <span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="COLOR: black;color:fuchsia;" ></span><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/chiropractic-exception-does-not.html">Chiropractic: The Exception Does Not Justify the Rule</a> - <span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="COLOR: black;color:fuchsia;" ></span><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/fsu-chiropractic-school-is-unneeded_22.html">FSU Chiropractic School is Unneeded</a> - <span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="COLOR: black;color:fuchsia;" ></span><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/why-fsu-chiropractic-school-shouldnt.html">Why the FSU Chiropractic School Shouldn't Happen</a> - <span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="COLOR: black;color:fuchsia;" ></span><br /><br /><li><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/01/no-justification-for-existence-of.html">No justification for the existence of chiropractic</a> - <span id="google-navclient-hilite" style="COLOR: black;color:fuchsia;" ></span>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1162304444193583082006-10-31T15:12:00.000+01:002006-10-31T15:20:44.216+01:00The Scientific Method from P. White (UofO)The Scientific Method from P. White (UofO)<br /><br />1.1: What is the "scientific method"?<br />The scientific method is the best way yet discovered for winnowing the truth from<br />lies and delusion. The simple version looks something like this:<br /><br />1. Observe some aspect of the universe.<br /><br />2. Invent a theory that is consistent with what you have observed.<br /><br />3. Use the theory to make predictions.<br /><br />4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations.<br /><br />5. Modify the theory in the light of your results.<br /><br />6. Go to step 3.<br /><br />This leaves out the co-operation between scientists in building theories, and the<br />fact that it is impossible for every scientist to independently do every experiment<br />to confirm every theory. Because life is short, scientists have to trust other<br />scientists. So a scientist who claims to have done an experiment and obtained<br />certain results will usually be believed, and most people will not bother to repeat<br />the experiment.<br /><br />Experiments do get repeated as part of other experiments. Most scientific papers<br />contain suggestions for other scientists to follow up. Usually the first step in doing<br />this is to repeat the earlier work. So if a theory is the starting point for a<br />significant amount of work then the initial experiments will get replicated a<br />number of times.<br /><br />Some people talk about "Kuhnian paradigm shifts". This refers to the observed<br />pattern of the slow extension of scientific knowledge with occasional sudden<br />revolutions. This does happen, but it still follows the steps above.<br /><br />Many philosophers of science would argue that there is no such thing as the<br />scientific method.<br /><br />1.2: What is the difference between a fact, a theory and a hypothesis?<br /><br />In popular usage, a theory is just a vague and fuzzy sort of fact. But to a scientist<br />a theory is a conceptual framework that explains existing facts and predicts new<br />ones. For instance, today I saw the Sun rise. This is a fact. This fact is explained<br />by the theory that the Earth is round and spins on its axis while orbiting the sun.<br />This theory also explains other facts, such as the seasons and the phases of the<br />moon, and allows me to make predictions about what will happen tomorrow.<br />This means that in some ways the words fact and theory are interchangeable.<br />The organisation of the solar system, which I used as a simple example of a<br />theory, is normally considered to be a fact that is explained by Newton's theory of<br />gravity. And so on.<br /><br />A hypothesis is a tentative theory that has not yet been tested. Typically, a<br />scientist devises a hypothesis and then sees if it "holds water" by testing it<br />against available data. If the hypothesis does hold water, the scientist declares it<br />to be a theory.<br /><br />An important characteristic of a scientific theory or hypotheis is that it be<br />"falsifiable". This means that there must be some experiment or possible<br />discovery that could prove the theory untrue. For example, Einstein's theory of<br />Relativity made predictions about the results of experiments. These experiments<br />could have produced results that contradicted Einstein, so the theory was (and<br />still is) falsifiable.<br /><br />On the other hand the theory that "there is an invisible snorg reading this over<br />your shoulder" is not falsifiable. There is no experiment or possible evidence that<br />could prove that invisible snorgs do not exist. So the Snorg Hypothesis is not<br />scientific. On the other hand, the "Negative Snorg Hypothesis" (that they do not<br />exist) is scientific. You can disprove it by catching one. Similar arguments apply<br />to yetis, UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster. See also question 5.2 on the age of<br />the Universe.<br /><br />1.3: Can science ever really prove anything?<br /><br />Yes and no. It depends on what you mean by "prove".<br /><br />For instance, there is little doubt that an object thrown into the air will come back<br />down (ignoring spacecraft for the moment). One could make a scientific<br />observation that "Things fall down". I am about to throw a stone into the air. I use<br />my observation of past events to predict that the stone will come back down.<br />Wow - it did!<br /><br />But next time I throw a stone, it might not come down. It might hover, or go<br />shooting off upwards. So not even this simple fact has been really proved. But<br />you would have to be very perverse to claim that the next thrown stone will not<br />come back down. So for ordinary everyday use, we can say that the theory is<br />true.<br /><br />You can think of facts and theories (not just scientific ones, but ordinary everyday<br />ones) as being on a scale of certainty. Up at the top end we have facts like<br />"things fall down". Down at the bottom we have "the Earth is flat". In the middle<br />we have "I will die of heart disease". Some scientific theories are nearer the top<br />than others, but none of them ever actually reach it. Skepticism is usually<br />directed at claims that contradict facts and theories that are very near the top of<br />the scale. If you want to discuss ideas nearer the middle of the scale (that is,<br />things about which there is real debate in the scientific community) then you<br />would be better off asking on the appropriate specialist group.<br /><br />1.4: If scientific theories keep changing, where is the Truth?<br /><br />In 1666 Isaac Newton proposed his theory of gravitation. This was one of the<br />greatest intellectual feats of all time. The theory explained all the observed facts,<br />and made predictions that were later tested and found to be correct within the<br />accuracy of the instruments being used. As far as anyone could see, Newton's<br />theory was the Truth.<br /><br />During the nineteenth century, more accurate instruments were used to test<br />Newton's theory, and found some slight discrepancies (for instance, the orbit of<br />Mercury wasn't quite right). Albert Einstein proposed his theories of Relativity,<br />which explained the newly observed facts and made more predictions. Those<br />predictions have now been tested and found to be correct within the accuracy of<br />the instruments being used. As far as anyone can see, Einstein's theory is the<br />Truth.<br /><br />So how can the Truth change? Well the answer is that it hasn't. The Universe is<br />still the same as it ever was, and Newton's theory is as true as it ever was. If you<br />take a course in physics today, you will be taught Newton's Laws. They can be<br />used to make predictions, and those predictions are still correct. Only if you are<br />dealing with things that move close to the speed of light do you need to use<br />Einstein's theories. If you are working at ordinary speeds outside of very strong<br />gravitational fields and use Einstein, you will get (almost) exactly the same<br />answer as you would with Newton. It just takes longer because using Einstein<br />involves rather more maths.<br /><br />One other note about truth: science does not make moral judgements. Anyone<br />who tries to draw moral lessons from the laws of nature is on very dangerous<br />ground. Evolution in particular seems to suffer from this. At one time or another it<br />seems to have been used to justify Nazism, Communism, and every other -ism in<br />between. These justifications are all completely bogus. Similarly, anyone who<br />says "evolution theory is evil because it is used to support Communism" (or any<br />other -ism) has also strayed from the path of Logic.<br /><br />1.5: "Extraordinary evidence is needed for an extraordinary claim"<br /><br />An extraordinary claim is one that contradicts a fact that is close to the top of the<br />certainty scale discussed above. So if you are trying to contradict such a fact,<br />you had better have facts available that are even higher up the certainty scale.<br /><br />1.6: What is Occam's Razor?<br /><br />Ockham's Razor ("Occam" is a Latinised variant) is the principle proposed by<br />William of Ockham in the fifteenth century that "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine<br />neccesitate", which translates as "entities should not be multiplied<br />unnecessarily". Various other rephrasings have been incorrectly attributed to him.<br /><br />In more modern terms, if you have two theories which both explain the observed<br />facts then you should use the simplest until more evidence comes along. See<br />W.M. Thorburn, "The Myth of Occam's Razor," Mind 27:345-353 (1918) for a<br />detailed study of what Ockham actually wrote and what others wrote after him.<br />The reason behind the razor is that for any given set of facts there are an infinite<br />number of theories that could explain them. For instance, if you have a graph<br />with four points in a line then the simplest theory that explains them is a linear<br />relationship, but you can draw an infinite number of different curves that all pass<br />through the four points. There is no evidence that the straight line is the right one,<br />but it is the simplest possible solution. So you might as well use it until someone<br />comes along with a point off the straight line.<br /><br />Also, if you have a few thousand points on the line and someone suggests that<br />there is a point that is off the line, it's a pretty fair bet that they are wrong.<br /><br />The following argument against Occam's Razor is sometime proposed:<br /><br /> This simple hypothesis was shown to be false;<br /> the truth was more complicated. So Occam's Razor doesn't work.<br /><br />This is a strawman argument. The Razor doesn't tell us anything about the truth<br />or otherwise of a hypothesis, but rather it tells us which one to test first. The<br />simpler the hypothesis, the easier it is to shoot down.<br /><br />A related rule, which can be used to slice open conspiracy theories, is Hanlon's<br />Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by<br />stupidity". This definition comes from "The Jargon File" (edited by Eric<br />Raymond), but one poster attributes it to Robert Heinlein, in a 1941 story called<br />"Logic of Empire".<br /><br />1.7: Galileo was persecuted, just like researchers into <x>today.<br /><br />People putting forward extraordinary claims often refer to Galileo as an example<br />of a great genius being persecuted by the establishment for heretical theories.<br />They claim that the scientific establishment is afraid of being proved wrong, and<br />hence is trying to suppress the truth.<br /><br />This is a classic conspiracy theory. The Conspirators are all those scientists who<br />have bothered to point out flaws in the claims put forward by the researchers.<br />The usual rejoinder to someone who says "They laughed at Columbus, they<br />laughed at Galileo" is to say "But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown". (From<br />Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain, Coronet 1980, p79).<br /><br />Incidentally, stories about the persecution of Galileo Galilei and the ridicule<br />Christopher Columbus had to endure should be taken with a grain of salt.<br />During the early days of Galileo's theory church officials were interested and<br />sometimes supportive, even though they had yet to find a way to incorporate it<br />into theology. His main adversaries were established scientists - since he was<br />unable to provide HARD proofs they didn't accept his model. Galileo became<br />more agitated, declared them ignorant fools and publicly stated that his model<br />was the correct one, thus coming in conflict with the church.<br /><br />When Columbus proposed to take the "Western Route" the spherical nature of<br />the Earth was common knowledge, even though the diameter was still debatable.<br />Columbus simply believed that the Earth was a lot smaller, while his adversaries<br />claimed that the Western Route would be too long. If America hadn't been in his<br />way, he most likely would have failed. The myth that "he was laughed at for<br />believing that the Earth was a globe" stems from an American author who<br />intentionally adulterated history.<br /><br />1.8: What is the "Experimenter effect"?<br /><br />It is unconscious bias introduced into an experiment by the experimenter. It can<br />occur in one of two ways:<br /><br />· Scientists doing experiments often have to look for small effects or differences<br />between the things being experimented on.<br /><br />· Experiments require many samples to be treated in exactly the same way in order<br />to get consistent results.<br /><br />Note that neither of these sources of bias require deliberate fraud.<br /><br />A classic example of the first kind of bias was the "N-ray", discovered early this<br />century. Detecting them required the investigator to look for very faint flashes of<br />light on a scintillator. Many scientists reported detecting these rays. They were<br />fooling themselves. For more details, see "The Mutations of Science" in Science<br />Since Babylon by Derek Price (Yale Univ. Press).<br /><br />A classic example of the second kind of bias were the detailed investigations into<br />the relationship between race and brain capacity in the last century. Skull<br />capacity was measured by filling the empty skull with lead shot or mustard seed,<br />and then measuring the volume of beans. A significant difference in the results<br />could be obtained by ensuring that the filling in some skulls was better settled<br />than others. For more details on this story, read Stephen Jay Gould's The<br />Mismeasure of Man.<br /><br />For more detail see:<br />T.X. Barber, Pitfalls of Human Research, 1976.<br />Robert Rosenthal, Pygmalion in the Classroom.<br />[These were recommended by a correspondent. Sorry I have no more information.]<br /><br />1.9: How much fraud is there in science?<br /><br />In its simplest form this question is unanswerable, since undetected fraud is by<br />definition unmeasurable. Of course there are many known cases of fraud in<br />science. Some use this to argue that all scientific findings (especially those they<br />dislike) are worthless.<br /><br />This ignores the replication of results which is routinely undertaken by scientists.<br />Any important result will be replicated many times by many different people. So<br />an assertion that (for instance) scientists are lying about carbon-14 dating<br />requires that a great many scientists are engaging in a conspiracy. See the<br />previous question.<br /><br />In fact the existence of known and documented fraud is a good illustration of the<br />self-correcting nature of science. It does not matter if a proportion of scientists<br />are fraudsters because any important work they do will not be taken seriously<br />without independent verification. Hence they must confine themselves to<br />pedestrian work which no-one is much interested in, and obtain only the<br />expected results. For anyone with the talent and ambition necessary to get a<br />Ph.D this is not going to be an enjoyable career.<br /><br />Also, most scientists are idealists. They perceive beauty in scientific truth and<br />see its discovery as their vocation. Without this most would have gone into<br />something more lucrative.<br /><br />These arguments suggest that undetected fraud in science is both rare and<br />unimportant.<br /><br />The above arguments are weaker in medical research, where companies<br />frequently suppress or distort data in order to support their own products.<br />Tobacco companies regularly produce reports "proving" that smoking is<br />harmless, and drug companies have both faked and suppressed data related to<br />the safety or effectiveness or major products.<br /><br />For more detail on more scientific frauds than you ever knew existed, see False<br />Prophets by Alexander Koln.<br /><br />The standard textbook used in North America is Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud<br />and Deceit in Science by William Broad and Nicholas Wade (Oxford 1982).<br />There is a mailing list SCIFRAUD for the discussion of fraud and questionable<br />behaviour in science. To subscribe, send "sub scifraud <your>" to<br /><a href="mailto:listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu">listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu</a>.<br /><br />1.9.1: Did Mendel fudge his results?<br /><br />Gregor Mendel was a 19th Century monk who discovered the laws of inheritance<br />(dominant and recessive genes etc.). More recent analysis of his results suggest<br />that they are "too good to be true". Mendelian inheritance involves the random<br />selection of possible traits from parents, with particular probabilities of particular<br />traits. It seems from Mendel's raw data that chance played a smaller part in his<br />experiments than it should. This does not imply fraud on the part of Mendel.<br /><br />First, the experiments were not "blind" (see the questions about double blind<br />experiments and the experimenter effect). Deciding whether a particular pea is<br />wrinkled or not needs judgement, and this could bias Mendel's results towards<br />the expected. This is an example of the "experimenter effect".<br /><br />Second, Mendel's Laws are only approximations. In fact it does turn out that in<br />some cases inheritance is less random than his Laws state.<br /><br />Third, Mendel might have neglected to publish the results of `failed' experiments.<br />It is interesting to note that all 7 of the characteristics measured in his published<br />work are controlled by single genes. He did not report any experiments with more<br />complicated characteristics. Mendel later started experiments with a more<br />complex plant, hawkweed, could not interpret the results, got discouraged and<br />abandoned plant science.<br /><br />See The Human Blueprint by Robert Shapiro (New York: St. Martin's, 1991) p.<br />17.<br /><br />1.10: Are scientists wearing blinkers?<br /><br />One of the commonest allegations against mainstream science is that its<br />practitioners only see what they expect to see. Scientists often refuse to test<br />fringe ideas because "science" tells them that this will be a waste of time and<br />effort. Hence they miss ideas which could be very valuable.<br /><br />This is the "blinkers" argument, by analogy with the leather shields placed over<br />horses eyes so that they only see the road ahead. It is often put forward by<br />proponents of new-age beliefs and alternative health.<br /><br />It is certainly true that ideas from outside the mainstream of science can have a<br />hard time getting established. But on the other hand the opportunity to create a<br />scientific revolution is a very tempting one: wealth, fame and Nobel prizes tend to<br />follow from such work. So there will always be one or two scientists who are<br />willing to look at anything new.<br /><br />If you have such an idea, remember that the burden of proof is on you. Posting<br />an explanation of your idea to sci.skeptic is a good start. Many readers of this<br />group are professional scientists. They will be willing to provide constructive<br />criticism and pointers to relevant literature (along with the occasional rasberry).<br />Listen to them. Then go away, read the articles, improve your theory in the light<br />of your new knowledge, and then ask again. Starting a scientific revolution is a<br />long, hard slog. Don't expect it to be easy. If it was, we would have them every<br />week.<br /><br />Bill Latura <blatura@xnet.com><br />Twenty Science Attitudes<br />From the Rational Enquirer, Vol 3, No. 3, Jan 90.<br /><br />1. Empiricism. Simply said, a scientist prefers to "look and see." You do not argue<br />about whether it is raining outside--just stick a hand out the window. Underlying<br />this is the belief that there is one real world following constant rules in nature, and<br />that we can probe that real world and build our understanding--it will not change<br />on us. Nor does the real world depend upon our understanding--we do not "vote"<br />on science.<br /><br />2. Determinism. "Cause-and-effect" underlie everything. In simple mechanisms, an<br />action causes a reaction, and effects do not occur without causes. This does not<br />mean that some processes are not random or chaotic. But a causative agent does<br />not alone produce one effect today and another tomorrow.<br /><br />3. A belief that problems have solutions. Major problems have been tackled in the<br />past, from the Manhattan Project to sending a man to the moon. Other problems<br />such as pollution, war, poverty, and ignorance are seen as having real causes and<br />are therefore solvable--perhaps not easily, but possible.<br /><br />4. Parsimony. Prefer the simple explanation to the complex: when both the complex<br />earth-centered system with epicycles and the simple Copernican sun-centered<br />system explain apparent planetary motion, we choose the simpler.<br /><br />5. Scientific manipulation. Any idea, even though it may be simple and conform to<br />apparent observations, must usually be confirmed by work that teases out the<br />possibility that the effects are caused by other factors.<br /><br />6. Skepticism. Nearly all statements make assumptions of prior conditions. A<br />scientist often reaches a dead end in research and has to go back and determine if<br />all the assumptions made are true to how the world operates.<br /><br />7. Precision. Scientists are impatient with vague statements: A virus causes disease?<br />How many viruses are needed to infect? Are any hosts immune to the virus?<br />Scientists are very exact and very "picky".<br /><br />8. Respect for paradigms. A paradigm is our overall understanding about how the<br />world works. Does a concept "fit" with our overall understanding or does it fail to<br />weave in with our broad knowledge of the world? If it doesn't fit, it is<br />"bothersome" and the scientist goes to work to find out if the new concept is<br />flawed or if the paradigm must be altered.<br /><br />9. A respect for power of theoretical structure. Diederich describes how a<br />scientist is unlikely to adopt the attitude: "That is all right in theory but it won't<br />work in practice." He notes that theory is "all right" only if it does work in<br />practice. Indeed the rightness of the theory is in the end what the scientist is<br />working toward; no science facts are accumulated at random. (This is an<br />understanding that many science fair students must learn!)<br /><br />10. Willingness to change opinion. When Harold Urey, author of one textbook<br />theory on the origin of the moon's surface, examined the moon rocks brought<br />back from the Apollo mission, he immediately recognized this theory did not fit<br />the hard facts laying before him. "I've been wrong!" he proclaimed without any<br />thought of defending the theory he had supported for decades.<br /><br />11. Loyalty to reality. Dr. Urey above did not convert to just any new idea, but<br />accepted a model that matched reality better. He would never have considered<br />holding to an opinion just because it was associated with his name.<br /><br />12. Aversion to superstition and an automatic preference for scientific<br />explanation. No scientist can know all of the experimental evidence underlying<br />current science concepts and therefore must adopt some views without<br />understanding their basis. A scientist rejects superstition and prefers science<br />paradigms out of an appreciation for the power of reality based knowledge.<br /><br />13. A thirst for knowledge, an "intellectual drive." Scientists are addicted puzzlesolvers.<br />The little piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit is the most interesting.<br />However, as Diederich notes, scientists are willing to live with incompleteness<br />rather than "...fill the gaps with off-hand explanations."<br /><br />14. Suspended judgment. Again Diederich describes: "A scientist tries hard not to<br />form an opinion on a given issue until he has investigated it, because it is so hard<br />to give up opinion already formed, and they tend to make us find facts that<br />support the opinions... There must be however, a willingness to act on the best<br />hypothesis that one has time or opportunity to form."<br /><br />15. Awareness of assumptions. Diederich describes how a good scientist starts by<br />defining terms, making all assumptions very clear, and reducing necessary<br />assumptions to the smallest number possible. Often we want scientists to make<br />broad statements about a complex world. But usually scientists are very specific<br />about what they "know" or will say with certainty: "When these conditions hold<br />true, the usual outcome is such-and-such."<br /><br />16. Ability to separate fundamental concepts from the irrelevant or<br />unimportant. Some young science students get bogged down in observations and<br />data that are of little importance to the concept they want to investigate.<br /><br />17. Respect for quantification and appreciation of mathematics as a language of<br />science. Many of nature's relationships are best revealed by patterns and<br />mathematical relationships when reality is counted or measured; and this beauty<br />often remains hidden without this tool.<br /><br />18. An appreciation of probability and statistics. Correlations do not prove causeand-<br />effect, but some pseudoscience arises when a chance occurrence is taken as<br />"proof." Individuals who insist on an all-or-none world and who have little<br />experience with statistics will have difficulty understanding the concept of an<br />event occurring by chance.<br /><br />19. An understanding that all knowledge has tolerance limits. All careful analyses<br />of the world reveal values that scatter at least slightly around the average point; a<br />human's core body temperature is about so many degrees and objects fall with a<br />certain rate of acceleration, but there is some variation. There is no absolute<br />certainty.<br /><br />20. Empathy for the human condition. Contrary to popular belief, there is a value<br />system in science, and it is based on humans being the only organisms that can<br />"imagine" things that are not triggered by stimuli present at the immediate time in<br />their environment; we are, therefore, the only creatures to "look" back on our past<br />and plan our future. This is why when you read a moving book, you imagine<br />yourself in the position of another person and you think "I know what the author<br />meant and feels." Practices that ignore this empathy and resultant value for human<br />life produce inaccurate science. (See Bronowski for more examples of this<br />controversial "scientific attitude.")<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1162303775737643392006-10-31T15:08:00.000+01:002006-10-31T15:09:35.776+01:00Rutherford storySir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel<br /><br />Prize in Physics, related the following story:<br /><br />Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected. I read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building." The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this. I suggested that the student have another try.<br /><br />I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he hadn't written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on. In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building."<br /><br />At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit. While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were. Well, "said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building.""Fine," I said, "and others?"<br /><br />"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units. A very direct method." "Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated. On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession". "Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer."<br /><br />At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.<br /><br />The name of the student was Niels Bohr." (1885-1962) Danish Physicist; Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with protons & neutrons, and various energy states of the surrounding electrons - the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three elliptical orbits ... but more significantly, an innovator in Quantum Theory.<br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1162114700861024302006-10-29T10:37:00.000+01:002006-10-30T23:05:37.053+01:00Eva Cassidy singing Over the RainbowOkay folks, this one's about music, especially Eva Cassidy, but also Katie Melua, Josh Groban, Sissel, Christina Aguilera, and Whitney Houston.<br /><br /><br />Here is a great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qing15beASU">Eva SlideShow</a>, with her singing Over the Rainbow in the background.<br /><br />Here you can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=eUwTdqPkluY&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static11.sjl.youtube.com/vi/eUwTdqPkluY/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIglYJvUsyzGg5uGv3gQpBg">see and hear her singing</a> Over the Rainbow.<br /><br />Other interesting finds at YouTube:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT9DhdNt3aU">Michelle Kwan skating to "Fields of Gold"</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr01qTQ1_FI">Michelle Kwan - Fields of Gold - 2003 Worlds Exhibition</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywK_Ld9Z3M&amp;amp;mode=related&search=">Michelle Kwan - Fields of Gold - 2002 Olympics</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6Nivk87-E">Kimmie Meissner, 2006 World Champion: Somewhere Over The Rainbow</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vLSUYhxrVk">Eva Cassidy (unreleased) singing Summertime</a><br /><br /><br />For more of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eva+cassidy">Eva Cassidy at YouTube</a>.<br /><br />My blog: <a href="http://evacassidy.blogspot.com/">Eva Cassidy: Legendary Singer</a><br /><br />I can recommend that you go and buy all her CDs. Great listening from one of the greatest voices ever.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkjzu21R4A">Katie Melua's song about Eva Cassdy - "Faraway Voice</a>"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BpwjjgPPWU">Katie Melua singing her big hit, "The Closest Thing To Crazy" [2003]</a><br /><br /><a id="video_title_text_4_21786_328" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjUyv_wP_KQ&mode=related&search=">Katie sings "I Put A Spell On You"</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.katiemelua.com/">Katie's website</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEonut-sg8A">Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5gh4BsGec">Josh Groban - The National Anthem</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK_TOg1KRM">Josh Groban - You're Still You</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upddg7yHaSI">Josh Groban & Sissel - The Prayer (Nobel Peace Prize Concert)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x7Mi1chCDg">Josh Groban (on the drums)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.joshgroban.com/">His website</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a id="video_title_text_8_24755_168" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSRV2Pym5KE&mode=related&search=">Whitney Houston - Star Spangled Banner</a><br /><br /><a id="video_title_text_6_22459_91" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0NQJcRs6vM&mode=related&search=">Christina Aguilera - Star Spangled Banner (National Anthem)</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1160674633388732152006-10-12T19:26:00.000+02:002006-10-12T19:41:45.540+02:00Astronomy: Putting things in perspective!Have you ever wondered about the size of the Earth, in relation to other planets and stars? Well, these websites really put things in perspective. They contain comparative images of the planets in our solar system, compared with our sun, which is then compared with other suns in the Milky Way, which is then compared with images from much further away, taken by the Hubble telescope.<br /><br /><strong>* <a href="http://newsizeofourworld.ytmnd.com/">The New Size of Our World</a></strong><br /><br />If you were impressed after viewing that website's images, well, the story isn't finished yet, but continues here:<br /><br /><strong>* <a href="http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/">A Tiny Glimpse</a></strong><br /><br />These images require large screen resolutions, so set your screen to the largest resolution you can, for example 1280 x 1024.<br /><br />After viewing these images from NASA, one should be humbled as regards to our relative size. Yet, so far, we still consider the human brain to be "the most complex structure in the known universe," which is a very different matter than mere size:<br /><br /><blockquote>"The brain is probably the most complex structure in the known universe; complex enough to coordinate the fingers of a concert pianist or to create a three-dimensional landscape from light that falls on a two-dimensional retina." <span style="font-size:85%;">Source: </span><a href="http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/MM/brain/large/large.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">Mind and Machine</span></a></blockquote><br />I wonder what would happen to that belief if a "complexity" telescope could look out into the universe? Hmmm.....<br /><br /><br /><br /><table bgcolor="#0099ff" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><br /><center>*<strong>********************* Subscribe to this blog *********************</strong>*<br /><form action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="29557" name="ID">Enter your email address below to subscribe to<br /><b>Confessions of a Quackbuster!</b><br /><input maxlength="100" name="email"><br /><input type="submit" value="subscribe" name="Submit"><br /><a href="http://www.bloglet.com/">powered by Bloglet</a></form>**********<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/reciprocal-links-invitation.html">Reciprocal Links: An Invitation</a></strong><br /></li></center></td></tr></tbody></table>Sitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543007.post-1105480447599183162006-09-22T23:53:00.001+02:002008-09-13T06:28:04.631+02:00There is a big difference between an adjustment and a manipulationHere I comment on an email from Paul Giles <br /><br />SNIPPED<br /><br />> My view has been the same with regards to bone out of place, pinched<br />> nerve, disc slipped out etc...if this truly happens then it is rare,<br />> i.e 1-5% of all spine cases. Additionally, I agree that subluxation<br />> is not an appropriate term for chiropractors because it implies a<br />> semi dislocation...manipulation would only make it worse if applied!<br /><br />You're on to something there.<br /><br />There is a big difference between an adjustment and a manipulation, which is not a physical difference,<br />but a philosophical one. The results may physically be very similar, but the perception of results because<br />of mental manipulation can have life-long consequences for the patient's desire to continue chiropractic<br />care, even in the absence of any symptoms or disease processes.<br /><br />"ADJUST" DOES NOT EQUAL "MANIPULATE"<br /><br />DCs like to make the artificial distinction, that they are the only ones that can "adjust", while all others can<br />"only" manipulate. Philosophically speaking (from a DC's viewpoint), this is true, since a chiropractic<br />"adjustment" is for the purpose of "correcting a subluxation". This is a purely chiropractic delusion. This<br />delusion has been perpetuated by it being made the legal umbrella under which DCs work.<br /><br />A manipulation by an MD, PT or DO, on the other hand, is not performed for the purpose of correcting a<br />non-existent entity. Therefore it certainly does not, and never should, get any priority or legal status as a<br />method for the "correction of subluxations"!<br /><br />DCs (usually young, newly educated ones) who derogatorily speak of other's ability to "only manipulate", are<br />guilty of at least two faults:<br /><br />(1) they overrate the usefulness of "adjustments"; and<br /><br />(2) they reveal their ignorance of what other professions can do, why they do it, and especially, when and<br />why they DON'T do it.<br /><br />The "service" of manipulation of the spine "to correct a subluxation" is a service that only DCs claim to provide.<br />PTs & MDs cannot and will not contribute to this deception. It is also an unnecessary extra expense and risk for<br />taxpayers, insurance companies and patients. The wording, "to correct a subluxation", should be removed and<br />replaced with some real diagnoses, for which spinal manipulation can be helpful as a part of legitimate,<br />scientific therapy.<br /><br />The artificial distinction between "adjust" and "manipulate" is not consistently upheld by DCs. The term<br />"manipulation" is often used by them. The reason for this ambiguity lies in something more than the words. In<br />reality, they would like to eliminate any other profession's right to "manipulate" or "adjust", call it what you<br />will, for whatever purpose. Exclusivity is the issue. They want a patent on the use of all manipulative techniques,<br />especially HVLA.<br /><br />http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/pedchiro.html<br /><br />There's much more on this page.....<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> However...<br />><br />> Biomechanically, chiropractic adjustments look to break adhesions<br />> within the joint capsule. This restores functional mobility. There is<br />> also suggestions that there may be the release of trapped meniscoids<br />> within the joint capsule following an adjustment?<br /><br />These are indeed some of the theoretically possible explanations for what really is happening. I don't know how<br />much evidence there really is for them, but don't have any problem with the adhesions one. As far as I know of,<br />there has never been found evidence for a trapped meniscoid, even after all these years with CT and MRI scanning.<br />I personally have some other ideas on the subject. Things like reflex relaxation of local, tensed muscles ......Just<br />another possibility.<br /><br />My problem with traditional chiropractic's use of and explanations for adjustments, as currently taught in most schools,<br />is that the claims are too great. There is still no proof that adjustment/manipulation impacts any organic disease process<br />or improves health in any way. (See the NACM statement further down in this mail.) That it actually does provide relief<br />for neuromusculosketal ailments here and now, is another matter. No problemo. But I can achieve many of the same<br />results without using manipulation, even though I can and occasionally do perform it. While chiropractic does "equal"<br />adjustments, by their own definitions, manipulation does not "equal" chiropractic. There's plenty of research on<br />manipulation, but that's not the same as proof for or against chiropractic. Manipulation is done by DCs, MDs, DOs,<br />and PTs. While DCs should be experts at it, it's actually not as essential or important as they would like us to believe.<br />The same problems can often be dealt with without the use of manipulation, and by other practitioners.<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> Neurologically, the chiropractic adjustment<br /><br />....manipulation....<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> ......stimulates<br />> mechanoreceptors in the facet capsule and localised muscle<br />> spindles/golgi tendon organs from muscles such as intertransversarii<br />> & rotatores (these muscles have been shown to so small that the<br />> force they generate is quite minimal). Their role is more<br />> proprioceptive and may therefore act as motion and position sensors<br />> within the vertebra. Your could add the sub occipital musculature for<br />> the atlas/axis/base of skull (C0-C1-C2 complex). Muscle spindles are<br />> extremely dense here and this might explain the results/changes<br />> chiropractors have with certain patients with regards to dizziness,<br /><br />I suspect that you're probably referring to muscular tension and related stiffness in the neck, which then<br />causes referred pain and these symptoms in the head. Treatment of the muscles can effectively provide often<br />immediate relief, even without using manipulation. Since the neck is a very sensitive area, manipulation of<br />this area is also the type of manipulation most fraught with danger. "The literature does not demonstrate<br />that the benefits of MCS outweigh the risks." (below)<br /><br />Precisely dizziness can be a sign of impending disaster, if the dizziness follows the adjustment.<br /><br />For a bone-chilling account of watching the beginning of death on a chiropractor's table, click here and<br />turn on your speakers. It's the mother of the now dead patient speaking:<br /><br />http://www.canoe.ca/HealthRealAudio/chealth_laurie.ram<br /><br />More here:<br /><br />http://www.canoe.ca/ChiroYork/lana_lewis.html<br /><br />Of all the chiropractor-induced injuries I've seen in my practice, spinal compression fractures and spinal stenosis<br />(from a swollen spinal cord) have potentially been some of the worst. Not a pretty picture, and impossible to "repair".<br />Manipulation of the spine is not only rarely necessary in patients of all ages, it is decidedly risky in older individuals.<br />This applies, no matter who does the manipulating: DC, PT, DO, or MD. PTs usually consider it contraindicated in<br />elderly patients.<br /><br />The results of DC's attitudes towards the use of manipulation in patients of all ages are reflected in the following<br />statistics. A summary regarding the cervical spine follows here:<br /><br />"Manipulation of the cervical spine (MCS) is used in the treatment of people with neck pain and muscle-tension headache.<br />The purposes of this article are to review previously reported cases in which injuries were attributed to MCS, to identify<br />cases of injury involving treatment by physical therapists, and to describe the risks and benefits of MCS. One hundred<br />seventy-seven published cases of injury reported in 116 articles were reviewed. The cases were published between<br />1925 and 1997. The most frequently reported injuries involved arterial dissection or spasm, and lesions of the brain<br />stem. Death occurred in 32 (18%) of the cases. Physical therapists were involved in less than 2% of the cases, and no<br />deaths have been attributed to MCS provided by physical therapists. Although the risk of injury associated with MCS<br />appears to be small, this type of therapy has the potential to expose patients to vertebral artery damage that can be<br />avoided with the use of mobilization (non-thrust passive movements). The literature does not demonstrate that the benefits<br />of MCS outweigh the risks. Several recommendations for future studies and for the practice of MCS are discussed.<br />[Di Fabio RP. Manipulation of the cervical spine: risks and benefits." (Physical Therapy 1999;79:50-65.)<br /><br />http://www.ptjournal.org/Jan99/v79n1p50.cfm<br /><br />The graphs are interesting, especially Figure 2:<br />http://www.ptjournal.org/Jan99/v79n1p50-figs.cfm#F2<br /><br />... where the type of practitioner was adjusted according to the findings by Terrett. PTs were involved in less than 2% of all<br />cases, with no deaths caused by PTs. DCs were involved in a little more than 60% of all cases, including 32 deaths.<br /><br />Before adjusting the numbers according to the findings by Terrett, it looked like DCs were involved in more cases than<br />was actually the case. The revised figures made DCs look a very little bit better, but were still far too high. A casual<br />glance at these numbers could lead to the partially incorrect conclusion, that manipulation, when performed by a<br />chiropractor, is much more dangerous than when performed by other practitioners. No, that would not be entirely<br />correct. They should be seen more as a reflexion of the fact that manipulation is most often performed by DCs.<br /><br />Regardless of who performs the manipulation - the more it gets done, the greater the risk. Sooner or later someone is<br />going to get hurt. It needs to be used much more judiciously, by whoever it is that uses it, than most DCs use it today.<br />If a PT or MD were to use spinal manipulation in the same way, extent and frequency that DCs do, they would be exposing<br />their patients to the same risks that chiropractic patients are exposed to every day. The statistics would then reveal<br />more injuries from PTs and MDs.<br /><br />While the technique itself is potentially problematic, the attitude of most chiropractors towards it makes it doubly so<br />when applied by them.<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> ..... jaw pain, facial pain and of course headaches & migraines (not to<br />> mention whiplash).<br />><br />> Perhaps a better way of explaining chiropractic would be that<br />> chiropractors look for and feel joint dysfunction or joint<br />> restrictions. They adjust these restrictions. This would active joint<br />> mechanoreceptors, muscle spindles and GTO's.(and inhibit<br />> nociception). If joint dysfunction is removed then the<br />> motion/position sensors in the joint and musles would send<br />> proprioceptive information to the brain. When the joints are<br />> restricted in movement these motion sensors may well be silent? Other<br />> joints in the body may work harder to overcome this restriction?<br />><br />> You say the very idea of "adjusting" and "realigning" the spine<br />> is not supported by<br />> spinal anatomy or pathology.<br /><br /><br />I can see that I didn't word that very carefully. I was referring to the idea of bones being out of place, and being pushed back place. Likewise disc herniations being pushed back in place. Believe it or not, these claims are made all the time by many DCs. I've even seen brochures that exploited the expression "slipped disc".<br /><br />The use of the very inaccurate expression "slipped disc" in ordinary speech, instead of the more accurate "herniated disc", is a good example. Chiropractors have capitalized on this misnomer for years, indoctrinating (brainwashing) their patients into believing that chiropractors could push it back in place again.<br /><br />Chiropractic patients often believe that when the back is "out of alignment" it is out of joint - the dreaded BOOP (bone out of place). That cannot happen without a fracture or severe joint destruction (and then manipulation/adjustment would be absolutely contraindicated). It is most likely tense and/or cramped muscles that are pulling it "crooked" (temporary scoliosis). If the muscles are treated with warmth, massage and stretching, and often combined with the use of joint mobilization - presto, the back is now "aligned" again. (Not that it ever was out of "alignment.") Thus there is usually little or no need for manipulation/adjustment.<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> Yet research now by chiropractor Chris<br />> Colloca and co are showing the neurological basis behind spinal<br />> adjusting. New research is supporting manipulation/adjusting,<br /><br />But not for anything outside the neuromusculoskeletal system.<br /><br />Giles:<br /><br />> .... so much so, that physiotherapist are learning manipulative techniques (as are<br />> some GP's/medical doctors). The major chiropractic mechanisms are<br />> neurological.<br /><br />Even if they were, they are usually very temporary reflex effects.<br /><br /><br />> [Please cite some of the relevant peer-reviewed references. Incidentally,<br />> manipulation is by no means new to physiotherapy, since some of the most<br />> definitive work in manipulation and mobilisation has been carried out for<br />> many decades by specialists like Maitland. Medics have been doing manipulation<br />> for as long as any other therapists, especially orthopaedic surgeons who for many<br />> decades have been doing major manipulations under anaesthesia. The history<br />> of manipulation among osteopaths may be even longer. Mel Siff]<br />><br />> I hope this offers a better, more objective (& upto date) evaluation<br />> of chiropractic science? Perhaps chiropractors should look at the<br />> research too & level outdated slipped discs, bone out of place<br />> explanations behind?<br /><br />I appreciate your comments, Paul (Giles)....great name there! You, like myself, can see that<br />manipulative therapy does have its place, but that the chiropractic profession has a problem<br />that needs to be dealt with.<br /><br />The following excerpt is from the National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) website.<br />It is refreshing and the web site is well worth reading in its entirety. It states in no uncertain terms<br />the core weaknesses in traditional chiropractic and proposes ways to move forward:<br /><br />"The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) was founded in consumer advocacy. Most<br />professional associations are formed to further the interests of the professional individuals forming the<br />organization. Members of the NACM believe that the interests of the public must come first over the<br />interests of the professionals making up the association. Associate members believe that, in serving<br />the public interest, they will be working toward a better profession, which, ultimately, will further<br />their professional/personal goals.<br /><br />"The first and foremost requirement for membership in the NACM is that a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine<br />renounce the chiropractic hypothesis and/or philosophy; that is, the tenets upon which their scope of practice<br />is based. The original chiropractic hypothesis, stated simply, is that "subluxation is the cause of dis-ease."<br />Modern day chiropractic associations may have expanded and changed this simple statement for the public, but<br />the reality is that this remains the backbone of chiropractic education and practice to this day. In clarification,<br />the term "subluxation" has never been defined by the profession in a way as to have universal acceptance within<br />the chiropractic profession. Chiropractic "subluxation" is not the same as medical subluxation, which represents<br />a partial dislocation of joint structure and would be a contraindication to "adjusting" or "manipulating" the joint<br />structures. Chiropractic "subluxation," not having universal definition, and, thereby, not having received<br />universal scientific status of existence, has evolved into a metaphysical status. Further, the profession has neither<br />defined nor outlined what disease or "dis-ease" that the correction of the "subluxation" might cure or affect.<br />Because the hypothesis has found no validity in universally accepted, peer-reviewed, published scientific journals,<br />belief in the hypothesis, then, is essentially a theosophy. Science has not found any organ system pathology which<br />"adjustment" or "manipulation" of spinal joint structures has effect; that is, no disease or "dis-ease" process<br />is affected."<br /><br />"For these reasons, members of the NACM renounce the chiropractic hypothesis as a basis for their scope of practice.<br />NACM members accept the scientific fact that "manipulative procedures" ("adjusting" spinal segments) has scientific<br />validity simply for affecting joint dysfunctional disorders. NACM members confine their scope of practice to the<br />treatment of joint dysfunctional disorders, which include the biomechanics of the human frame, posture, weight<br />bearing and gait, and the pain or discomfort concomitant with this dysfunction which may result in excessive "wear"<br />of these joint structures. NACM members do not consider themselves to be an "alternative" to scientific medical care<br />and attempt to work closely with medical/osteopathic professionals. NACM members do not consider themselves to be<br />"primary care" practitioners, as this would necessitate the training and ability to therapeutically impact any health<br />care need of the consumer. NACM does not believe chiropractic education nor license to practice encompasses this<br />scope of practice. NACM membership practitioners are "portal of entry" doctors, in that the consumer does not<br />need referral from any other type of health care professional." (All emphasis original in the HTML version<br />on the web site.)<br /><br />http://www.chiromed.org/<br /><br /><br />*******<br /><br />I'll leave you all with these well-written words from a sensible chiropractor:<br /><br />FOOD FOR THOUGHT 2000<br />Dr. G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN<br /><br />Last fall I read an article that blasted the Research Agenda Conference IV (RAC IV) because Dr. Ian Coulter recommended<br />that our profession abandon the antiquated subluxation theory. The article said that 90% of those in attendance agreed<br />with Dr. Coulter. I was very disappointed I missed the conference. It made me happy to know that there are those in<br />leadership positions who realize that our profession's survival in the next century must be based on science.<br /><br />Even though people like Don Petersen plead for chiropractors to work together, the differences may be too great for one<br />profession. Our profession is so diametrically opposed in so many areas that a split may benefit both camps. Imagine how<br />hard it is for a wellness chiropractor to convince a new patient that they need 20 treatments a year when that patient's<br />previous DC had a "treat and release" practice.<br /><br />Conversely, how many thousands of people have been turned off by those who practice with a "philosophy" geared toward<br />overutilization driven by greed? Where is the literature to support the "catastrophic effects" the vast majority of the<br />people on this planet supposedly suffer because they are not receiving regular manipulations? Where are the insurance<br />studies to prove that people who go to the chiropractor 15 or 20 times a year, whether they have pain or not, have fewer<br />injuries, less illness, longer lives, or lower health care costs?<br /><br />When I consult a new patient, I have to waste valuable time to inform them what kind of chiropractor I am. I have to<br />tell them that :<br /><br />- I don't take x-rays unless a history and examination indicates they be performed.<br /><br />- If I do take x-rays, they will not be used as a marketing tool.<br /><br />- I will not manipulate their asymptomatic neck to relieve the symptoms in their lower back.<br /><br />- I do not diagnose nutritional deficiencies by having them hold a vitamin while pulling their arm.<br /><br />- I will do everything indicated, including numerous types of soft tissue therapy and modalities, to eliminate their<br />discomfort as soon as possible.<br /><br />- I will not try to brainwash them to bring in their asymptomatic family members.<br /><br />- I will try to educate them about diet, lifestyle and exercise to prevent a recurrence of their problem.<br /><br />- I will inform them that if I cannot help them, I will find a health care professional who can.<br /><br />I understand there are many who feel that a "real" chiropractor would not practice this way. Fine. If being a real<br />DC means wellness care, asymptomatic care, excessive x-rays, poor working relationships with MDs, rejection of<br />scientific data, bizarre techniques, outrageous claims, and the same treatment each visit regardless of the problem,<br />then I don't want to be a "real" DC.<br /><br />The only thing "real" DCs and I agree upon is that we would both like the public to look at our title and have an idea of what we do. Maybe all DCs would benefit if those of us who reject pseudoscientific subluxation-based philosophical chirobabble (designed to addict the world to manipulation) had a different title. I would proudly introduce myself as a medipractor, a treatipractor, a physical medicine therapist, a doctor of chiropractic medicine, or whatever it would take to inform the public there is a basic difference.<br /><br />In any profession, there will be differences in how one approaches various conditions. Generally speaking, healthy scientific debate benefits both patients and clinicians. However, I fail to see any common ground between those who try to see each patient as many times as possible, regardless of symptoms, and those who see each patient as few times as possible to eliminate symptoms. Maybe the best way for both sides to flourish in the new millennium is with a formal division.<br /><br />http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/18/03/01.html<br /><br />G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN, writes for Dynamic Chiropractic magazine, with a column on nutritional advice for DCs.<br /><br />--------<br /><br />Needless to say, this is just the tip of an iceberg. There's plenty of debate and information on this subject. It doesn't always stop there. Lives do get threatened and attempts do get made. The danger isn't from normal chiros, even though misguided, but from rabid chiros who feel that their biotheological religion is getting threatened by the existence of these brave chiros who expose the fundamentally false teachings and practices in their profession. It's sad.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />SitemasterSitemasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118972999849107830noreply@blogger.com