Ernst hammers sCAM again

[Asolepius]

My bold.

So far mine is the only pro-Ernst comment they've printed, and they edited out all my comments about egocentric anecdotal evidence ("I got better so it must work") being useless, and only printed the last sentence.

Oh well. I suppose it makes me look concise, unlike the rambling CAM rants.

They refuse to publish either of my comments - the second one asking why they ignored the first one.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I think Peter Dixon is telling a little porkie, "Actually there's no available evidence to show that manipulation of the neck by chiropractors has ever caused a stroke. " There is lots of such evidence. The chiroquacks deny it all. The Canadian Stroke Consortium http://www.strokeconsortium.ca/ has been at the forefront of providing this evidence.

Googling for this stuff turns up thousands of articles from the chiroquacks poo-pooing all the reseach. But they don't want the truth.

To quote John W. Norris, Professor of Neurology University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. and Vadim Beletsky, Clinical Fellow Division of Neurology University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., "Collaboration with our chiropractic colleagues is crucial to understanding and resolving the association between sudden neck movement and stroke. Blanket denial or distortion of our data from various quarters can only delay discovery of the necessary facts at the expense of the well-being of patients."

Their original paper is at: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full...f085773e57b20f87a74bcaa3&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

 

[Asolepius]

It suddenly occurs to me that the Wail might have engineered this. The general tone of the article is more extreme and polarised than I know Ernst to be, especially the title. He would never say it's all dangerous and useless. Now they are clearly biassing the comments by selective publication - we can prove that. Have they set him up as an Aunt Sally?

 

[Blue Wode]

Have they set him up as an Aunt Sally?

It's beginning to look like that. They didn't publish my comments either.

 

[Deetee]

We'll see if mine is published - somehow I also doubt it.

 

[Mojo]

It suddenly occurs to me that the Wail might have engineered this.

The sCAMmers certainly seem to be feeling the heat. It looks as if one of them might have completely lost it.