Such a brilliant title!

I will be providing some legal-ish commentary on my Blog on this case. This weekend I will be posting the ten questions BCA members should now be asking the BCA…

Conceivable, the public kicking that another bunch of woo merchants - homeopaths - has gotten over the last year or so may have spooked the BCA but, casting around for information presents a rather more enticing and plausible explanation as to why they might want to prevent the publication of adverse commentary in the press and any kind of critical public debate surrounding the efficacy and risks of chiropractic… …and to see that explanation first hand one need only take a short trip over to the website of NICE the National Institute for Clinical Evidence, where we find that one of things they’re working on is a new set of clinical guidelines for the treatement of non-specific lower back pain. Yep, its the key to the NHS gravy train. If NICE approves the use of chiropractic manipulation as part of the treatment regime for lower back pain then the door opens to chiropractors taking referrals from the NHS under contracts in which the NHS pays their fees and before you can say ‘vested interest’ you’ve got a whole bunch of chiropractors on what is effectively the public payroll. Little wonder then that just about the last thing that the BCA want right now is science journalists asking all sorts of awkward questions like ‘is there any evidence to show that it works?’ and ‘what kind of risks might patients face when referred for a course of woo?’. [Emphasis added.]

All of which does sound plausible.

Hm, I wonder if, like human chiropractors, a high percentage of feline chiropractors are anti-vaccination.

tbh, I have never met a cat that didn’t act up over its shots…

As for the cat being “treated” in the photo… I’m not sure. One of the tags in the photo is “Really - he is not a quack” which could go either way. Maybe these are just stunt cats, trained to demonstrate the dangers of chiropractic in a safe and fluffy way. Or maybe the cat on the left really is a dangerous spine-manipulatin’ moggy. I just don’t know! :-)

I’m waiting to hear that each act of litigation to mollify the hurt feelings of CAM representative bodies creates a new physical law in some multiverse or other (aka, Alt.Reality ™ Dr Aust) and through some sleight of quantum mechanics or other, this will make the potency of infinitessimal dilutions and suchlike plausible in this universe. The corollary is that chiropractic associations have to stand by, ready to put their money where their knee-jerks take them.

Now, about that cat in the photo, the one that isn’t turning its head. That cat is just asleep - yes? Not the victim of a high-velocity thrust too far?