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British Chiropractors Drop Case Against Simon Singh

Posted by timothy on from the quacks-like-to-duck dept.

SJrX writes "Several sources are reporting that the British Chiropractic Association has dropped its lawsuit against famed writer Simon Singh. He had recently won a High Court ruling in his favour, but this had been open for appeal." Also covered at The Independent and at MacLeans. Singh had angered the chiropractors' trade group with his published claim that certain chiropractice treatments were "bogus."

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  1. Yeah but by oldhack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is this related to iStuff?

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    1. Re:Yeah but by mswhippingboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What? No mention of the iPhad?

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  2. For American Readers: by MattGWU · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When you read the article, you have to say 'sheeropitist' and not 'chiropractor'.

    I think. I seem to remember it from a cartoon.

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  3. *bashes head against desk* by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's no such thing as the Placebo effect!

    Study in the Cochrane Review shows that in studies where placebo and no intervention were both performed, placebo performed as well as no intervention(see below for reference).

    No such thing as the placebo effect.

    Further more, this is 2010. Not 1890. We know that the interaction of chiropractic doesn't actually *do* anything other than give you a firm massage.

    Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jan 20;(1):CD003974. Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions. Hróbjartsson A, Gøtzsche PC. PMID: 20091554 Complement Ther Med. 2009 Oct-Dec;17(5-6):249-56. Epub 2009 Aug 28.

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  4. Re:Not completely bogus by John+Hasler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > I am a chiropractor. I no longer practice though. Why? Because I never
    > subscribed to the chiropractic philosophy.

    Then you were never really a chiropractor.

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