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It’s Halloween, so I thought I’d write about everybody’s nightmare – parking tickets. They are awful things; without doing harm to anyone or anything, you nevertheless wind up with a fine that can be up to £120! It’s no surprise, therefore, than thousands of people try to appeal their parking ticket. Here are some decent grounds for appealing: (more…)

Normally, telling people they shouldn’t advertise services they don’t provide would seem so obvious a point as to be a waste of time. However, in the case of chiropractors across the UK, it seems misleading claims and deceit are so popular that, in a 24-hour ‘blitzkrieg’, Alan Henness of Think Humanism lodged complaints of false advertising against over 500 individual chiropractors with the General Chiropractic Council. In response, the McTimoney Chiropractic Association sent out a warning to the others. (more…)

Although their profession is justifiably seen as an effective means of spinal treatment, chiropractors have no right whatsoever to make unsubstantiated claims that they can help with conditions for which there is no evidence that their practise is of any benefit whatsoever. What’s more, they certainly shouldn’t imply that they are qualified doctors, when they are not. Yet many chiropractors are guilty of both these offences, as Dr. Carl Irwin and Associates discovered in May 2009. (more…)

Over the last couple of years, there have been series of cases – spearheaded by the awesome Simon Singh – regarding the massive amount of misleading claims used by chiropractors in their adverts. In his article The Spinal Trap, Singh criticised the practise of chiropractic, causing the British Chiropractic Association to sue him for libel. When the BCA complained that Singh’s book, Trick or Treatment, mentions that the BCA “happily promotes bogus treatments”, the Royal Courts of Justice ruled that Singh had expressed it as a matter of fact, implying that the BCA were being consciously dishonest about chiropractic treatment. (more…)