{"id":382017,"date":"2010-03-02T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","slug":"chiropocalypse-book-2-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382017","title":{"rendered":"Chiropocalypse, Book 2 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been paying attention here the past few months, you already know that <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/06\/18\/careful-bca-you-might-slip-a-disk\/\">the British Chiropractic Association is suing Simon Singh<\/a> because he dared tell the truth about them in a newspaper article.<\/p>\n<p>After the BCA aimed, cocked, and shot themselves in the foot, a lot of collateral damage has taken place as well. You may remember what I called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/06\/10\/chiropocalypse\/\">Chiropocalypse<\/a>, where a lot of other UK chiropractors suddenly found themselves in hot water, making claims on their websites they couldn&#8217;t back up&#8230; and instead of backing up their claims with evidence, chose instead to take their sites down.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like those chickens have come home to roost. According to an article in the Guardian, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/mar\/01\/simon-singh-libel-case-chiropractors\">one out of every four chiropractors in Britain is under investigation for false claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, what are the words I&#8217;m looking for? Ah yes: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/nelsonhaha.com\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, it looks like this happened because skeptics stepped up the pressure in direct response to the BCA suing Simon. This is basically a case of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Streisand_effect\">The Streisand Effect<\/a>, and a happier outcome is hard to imagine. Unless, of course, that ratio rises to 100% of all chiropractors making false claims. <\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the herniated disk to Nigel Gomm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/kdN62aQeztQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/ib5Sd6pMNv8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been paying attention here the past few months, you already know that the British Chiropractic Association is suing Simon Singh because he dared tell the truth about them in a newspaper article. After the BCA aimed, cocked, and shot themselves in the foot, a lot of collateral damage has taken place as well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}