Comments on: British Chiropractic Association (BCA) demonstrate what evidence-based medicine isn’t

By: robin

robin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:49:48 +0000

Save your money. Singh accused the BCA of purposely allowing it’s members to defraud the public with what Singh called bogus treatments. He asked for his troubles. Then he refused
to apologise. Singh could have disagreed more
professionally.
If you think chiropractic is the only healthcare discipline with an evidence problem read this:

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp

The BMJ says 13% of medical treatment is beneficial
25 % likely to be beneficial
8 % are a trade off between benefits and harms
6 % unlikely to be beneficial
46 % unknown effectiveness

Not much better.

They should go
after his pal Herr Ernst , that knows everything about alternative medicine and possibly emboldened Singh through their ” Trick or Treatment “collaboration.

By: LeeT

LeeT — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:21:43 +0000

Does anybody know if a fighting fund has been established to fight the case and, if so, how donations can be made?

By: jonhw

jonhw — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:07:33 +0000

The issue isn’t that the BCA fail to meet my standards – they fail to meet the standards of EBM, while at the same time referring to EBM themselves.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:56:46 +0000

Sorry,if the BCA’s evidence doesn’t meet your standards but it does show enough efficacy
to allow BCA members to try them.
Singh has decided that BCA purposely
allowed members to advertise bogus treatments.
I’ve read Singh und herr Ernst’s chapter on chiropractic and it contains enough errors that lead me to believe these two aren’t just trying to educate
the public but just want to pick a fight.
Hopefully Ernst will let Singh live with him after
settlement

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