Just finished reading an article in New Scientist about Chiropracty.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ropractic.html
The author is a professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsular School of Medicine in Exeter, and has collaborated with Simon Singh in a book on alternative medicines. Trick or Treatment. Alternative Medicine on Trial.
He states quite clearly that chiropracty, when tested scientifically, has no value whatever in most medical conditions, and even when used for bad backs, the evidence tends to disappear when tested using rigorous methods with proper controls.
Yet most chiropractors are very happy to use chiropracty for a wide variety of ills, for which it appears to have no value at all.
http://www.gcc-uk.org/files/link_fil...Profession.pdf
Simon Singh is now in the nefarious position of being sued for libel, for saying, absolutely correctly, that there is absolutely no scientific evidence to suggest that chiropracty should be a part of therapies for most maladies.
How far should society's tolerance extend to quack therapies, in which practitioners, self deluded and sincere, or outright con artists, accept money for treatments that have no medical value??