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Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review
gandhi_2 writes with this excerpt from the SF Chronicle:
"A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a local artist over negative reviews published on Yelp, the popular Web site that rates businesses. Christopher Norberg, 26, of San Francisco posted the first review in November 2007 after visiting Steven Biegel at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing practices and said the chiropractor was being dishonest with insurance companies. ...The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free speech online, is considering helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman, an attorney with the group, said Biegel will get far more negative publicity from filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the foundation is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because they're unhappy with postings on the Internet."
DO's fought vigilently at the beginning of the century to maintain independence. See "Social Transformation of Medicine" - a pulitzer prize winning book. They too practiced quackery - but also normative medicine. Eventually the AMA relented and accepted them.
ChiroQUACKtics on the other hand would never be acceptable to the AMA since they only believed in the half of the DO world that was magickery, and thus they took another path. Seeing the sheeple wanted magik to solve back pain, they came up with mirrors and smoke and a damn good massage to make things temporarily better and the sheeple cried out for more. So, their pseudoscience was supported by the unwashed masses and they gained popularity.
Seeing as they would never be accepted by the AMA they sought the best alternative: get it approved by CMS for payment by insurance company. A beautiful end around. And it worked. ChiroQUACKtics are paid by insurance companies. And thus in one of the greatest moves by scam artists of all times, the quackery became legitimized. Brilliant indeed from the group of charlatans known as chiroQUACKtics.
Folks - I'm sorry. I know some of you love these guys, but you should get yourself an oriental massage therapist who can give you a happy ending. But oh yeah, that isn't covered by insurance so.... on with the Quackery !
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