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Simon Singh’s Bogus Journey

James, 'This organisation is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments.' You agree that there is no evidence that chiropractic is useful in the teatment of the childhood conditions that Simon mentioned in his article, right? Okay, so if the BCA is the "respectable face of the chiropractic profession" and do they not know what the evidence is and they do not know that there is no evidence to support the use of chiropractic for these conditions - which is what Simon believed at the time of his article, and which was probably true at the time he wrote his article - then how is he not justified in saying that they "happily promote bogus treatments"? Or have you not heard the phrase "happy in their ignorance"? It is trenchant criticism but it is not wrong. And it is justifiably trenchant criticism because the BCA are the "respectable face of the chiropractic profession" and yet they either have not bothered to examine the evidence or they do not know how to evaluate the evidence for the treatments that they promote. You agree that they should know this, right?

23-Feb-2010

8:43 pm