Staff at Florida State University strongly opposed plans to open a school for the largely pseudo-scientific practice of chiropractic. The level of opposition to this idea can be gauged by the following spoof proposed map of the facility, to include similar evidence-challenged subjects:
Anyway, looks like it won’t happen:
The state Board of Governors killed a proposed chiropractic school at Florida State University on Thursday, saying the program was pushed by the Legislature instead of the university's faculty and administration.
The 10-3 vote ended a contentious debate and dashed the chiropractic world's hopes of seeing the first chiropractic school open at an American public university.
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"We've had a difficult time discussing the merits of the proposal at a number of different stops. It's been frustrating, very frustrating," Wetherell said.
Translation of that last paragraph – chiropractors avoid scientific testing of their therapies.
Until there is scientific evidence for the claims of chirpopractic, this proposed school made about as much sense as the “Creation Foundation” in the above map.
Comment deleted by Skeptico due to troll-like behavior – specifically use of sock puppets.
Posted by: Dr.Max McCullen immunologist | December 19, 2005 at 02:10 PM
“John Haluska”, “medical student”, “Dr.Max McCullen immunologist” or whoever you really are, please stop spamming this blog with multiple comments to different posts. If you want to post comments then please keep to the point and provide evidence to back up your claims. If you want to post 4,000 word rants against the medical establishment then I suggest you get your own blog. You can start one with a month’s free trial here. Any more long off-topic rants will be deleted.
General Note: Duplicate posts to Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion have been deleted.
Posted by: Skeptico | December 19, 2005 at 02:37 PM
Quickly sifting through the AMA/FDA bashing I don't particularly care about:
"[Chiropractic] is a legitimate medical practice that often solves medical problems conventional medicine can't."
Evidence, please?
Posted by: BronzeDog | December 19, 2005 at 02:38 PM