{"id":10662,"date":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chiropocalypse-book-2-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:30:07","slug":"chiropocalypse-book-2-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/chiropocalypse-book-2-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Chiropocalypse, Book 2 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve been paying attention here the past few months, you already know that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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><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\" target=\"_blank\" 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&rsquo;t back up&hellip; and instead of backing up their claims with evidence, chose instead to take their sites down.<\/p><p>Well, it looks like those chickens have come home to roost. According to an article in the Guardian, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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><p>Let&rsquo;s see, what are the words I&rsquo;m looking for? Ah yes: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nelsonhaha.com\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p><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\" target=\"_blank\" 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><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the herniated disk to Nigel Gomm.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4fe5e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XYP-GHGnzcY3ktoQSg-7uAO5B4k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4fe5e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4fe5e_kdN62aQeztQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4fe5e_ib5Sd6pMNv8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/chiropocalypse-book-2-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}