A ballot of BCA members has resulted in 78% of the votes cast (which was not that many), being in favour of asking...
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Chiropractors’ Association of Australia Votes to Affirm Chiropractic as a Drug-Free, Non-Surgical Approach to Health Care
This from Chris Kents blog In light of the current movement by certain factions of the profession for prescriptive rights, the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia (CAA) has recognized the need to take action. At their most recent national board meeting, the CAA voted to affirm...
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ASA will not reveal details of the chiropractic experts who are advising them. You know how to boil frogs?
I wrote to the ASA asking them about their “Chiropractic experts” (I suspect they are “academics” who are on the GCC council). I also asked about the advice Osteopaths are giving their members in relation to making claims regarding digestive and circulatory problems. http://www.chiropracticlive.com/?p=826
This week the GCC met with all the UK associations...
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A bad week for mediparactors wishing to prescribe.
Things have been so bad with the BCA/GCC alliance lately, I may have lost sight of the bigger picture and why I would always choose a skilled adjustment before drugs and certainly drugs prescribed by a medipractor. Thanks to the comment by “le saucisson chocolat” for getting me back on track.
Skeptic Andy Lewis...
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More comments from BCA president Richard Brown,which I would love to question him about.
These are excerpts from Richard Browns message to members in the latest BCA newsletter “In Touch”
Richard Brown has featured quit a lot in the last 12 months Now he is concerned that he and the BCA are being misrepresented by people like me. He thinks the BCA council and Sue Wakefield know what...
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“Don’t believe all you read” says BCA President Richard Brown
Who remembers the BCA propaganda newsletter the “Chiropractic News” Let me start with November 4th 2004. The day the BCA sold out their members for cheap insurance, as a result BCA members are not covered for the legal costs of skeptic complaints, interprofessional disputes, the fury of scorned girlfriends and wives etc etc. Those...
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Latest from the British Chiropractic Association’s president Richard Brown (The guy who thought it was a good idea to sue Simon Singh). No icebergs sail on, full speed ahead.
Oh Dear! The bit I like best is in the last paragraph I believe the BCA President is an avid reader of this blog and advises “dont believe all you read. In recent months Ive seen comments made about the BCA that are clearly designed to damage its reputation and adversely affect the confidence...
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United we stand, divided we fall. At last the UCA has taken the lead for chiropractors in the UK.
Never ever ever give in to tyranny. These guys were prepared to go to jail for what the believed in.
The President of the United Chiropractic Association Kevin Proudman has proposed to form a coalition of chiropractic associations (UCA, SCA and MCA) within the UK called the Alliance of UK Chiropractors (AUKC). The formation of...
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It would appear the GCC acted illegally when they instructed private investigators to spy on me.
The story that a “Council illegally spied on family during row over catchment area” has been covered extensively in today’s press. I have been waiting for the result of this hearing before revealing details (see below for starters) of the GCCs covert activities and issuing complaints against the GCC to the Department of Health.
The...
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The Department of Health will no longer fund the CHRE
Two of Margaret Coats favourite quangos The Council for Health Care and Regulatory Excellence and the Appointments Commission are set for the chop. I can only hope my correspondence with the DOH in recent years and most recently outlining the CHREs refusal to criticise the GCC for failing to comply with the Data Protection...
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Why is the osteopathic profession growing at a much faster rate than the chiropractic profession in the UK? Are they just nicer people?
There are twice as many Osteopeaths in the UK as chiropractors when only five years ago it was a third, there are possibly ten times more chiropractors practicing around the world than Osteopaths.
When I was on the GCC council the Registrar was refusing registration to about 50% of overseas applicants, others might...
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What is your subluxation?
Mischievous as ever, I thought I’d launch into action on a topic that is very close to my heart and mind: the concept of the subluxation.
Now (and I am being very serious now) although you may read this as provocation or me just generally messing around it is really not intended as such. It...
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General Chiropractic Council would like to hear the skeptics complaints in private because they can not afford public hearings. Should chiropractors help them? Should chiropractors trust them?
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Which chiropractors will the GCC throw to the sceptics, thats what I would want to know. The GCC must read my blog or I can predict every move Margaret Coats will make.
Margaret Coats, sorry the PCC has requested to hear the “website claims” that the GCC and BCA...
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Will this be payback for the misery Margaret Coats and the General Chiropractic Council caused chiropractors in recent years
Four years ago I tried to get a few hundred chiropractors to make vexatious complaints against each other, to tie the GCC up in paperwork for years. Chiropractors thought everything would be better after the GCC elections and regulatory reform, complaints happened to the chiropractor down the road.
If the IC find there...
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Skeptic or cynic? That is a question!
(not quite the question, but a question nonetheless)
You cannot practise in the UK as a chiropractor unless you are recognised by the GCC as being a chiropractor – irrespective of whether your qualifications or practise methodology are those that would generally be recognised elsewhere, by other chiropractors, and by most people in the UK,...
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Message to the “Guardians of chiropractic” The horse has bolted”
I got an anonymous letter from a group calling themselves “Guardians of Chiropractic” last week. The reported some shocking goings on at the GCC but as I have not been able to confirm the story or who wrote the letter I will not be publishing its content. What I will say if its...
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According to General Chiropractic Council we could treat sciatica, asthma and infant colic, between October 2003 and March 2010
Thanks to George for sending me this latest instalment from the GCC.
GCC APPROACH TO PRESENTATION OF CASES RELATED TO CLAIMS MADE ON CHIROPRACTORS’ WEBSITES
Once the GCC statutory Investigating Committee, acting on legal advice, has come to its independent decision to refer a complaint to the Professional Conduct Committee, the relevant GCC officer works...
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Am I a Chiropractor?
I don’t really know what it is supposed to mean “to be a chiropractor”. Or more correctly, I don’t know what it is that would allow me to say to someone who calls themselves a chiropractor: “you’re not a chiropractor!” even if they are registered with the GCC…
Statement 1: Despite some people saying that...
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Chiroquackery! by Gert van der Walt
The worst thing about being thrown off the General Chiropractic Council, was the indifference shown by the chiropractic profession. Apathy is what has allowed the GCC/BCA alliance to promote their biomedical agenda for chiropractic. In recent months I have sensed that attitudes are changing but few were prepared to put their head above...
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