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Singh Case Puts Chiropractors Under Siege

As the British Chiropractic Association's battle with Simon Singh continues to work its way through the legal system, chiropractors are counting the fincancial costs of a major backlash resulting from a libel action that has left the Lord Chief Justice "baffled". What was originally a dispute between the BCA and one science writer over free speech has become a brutally effective campaign to reform an entire industry.

A staggering one in four chiropractors in Britain are now under investigation for allegedly making misleading claims in advertisements, according to figures revealed by the General Chiropractic Council.

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Drowning in Alphabet Soup: The Wider Battle for Health Regulation

This is an article about Simon Singh, but more than that about the wider issues at stake. In recent months I've written about the BPS, BACP, GCC, BCA, CNHC, and other unimaginative groups of letters that act as regulators or professional bodies for auxilliary health industries in Britain. Simon Singh's battle against the BCA is one chapter in a broader story that links all these cases together. In this post, I want to take a step back, and explore that wider story.

There are four distinct but related stories that have bubbled along for months now (among many others). The CNHC ('OfQuack') are a hapless alternative medicine "regulator" set up by an alt med charity run by Prince Charles at considerable expense to the taxpayer.

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"We don't regulate clinics or companies": The GCC Respond to my BCA Complaint

Yesterday I highlighted the fact that the BCA misrepresented the findings of a Cochrane Collaboration meta-study in their press release detailing the evidence for the efficacy of chiropractic in dealing with various childhood illnesses. I say evidence, but I actually mean 'evidence', in the same sense that Britain's Got Talent is a 'talent' show. Anyway, with this being quite a serious matter I thought I'd refer it to Britain's top chiropractic regulators, the GCC.

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