Cool: badscience.net, holfordwatch.info and dcscience.net are all covering the latest woo legal chill. DC’s recent post Doctor Who? was an article he’d had published in the New Zealand Medical Journal on Chiropractors naughtily using the appellation “Doctor”, there is a PDF of the NZMJ response here: classy, and I’ll quote one of my (and Holford Watch’s) favourite bits: “let’s hear your evidence not your legal muscle”. Something quite a few practitioners of Alternative Medicine should perhaps think about – legal chill and other threats.
This really is a tactic they deliberately use isn’t it? They can’t debate the evidence, so they bluster and threaten. Kudos to Professor Frizelle for an excellent response to yet more Altie bluster.
EDIT: more links – bone doctors, Norburyness, weak-minded, ignorant and superstitious.
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August 8, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Mixing up the general comments on this, I vote that this should be known as the Self-inflicted Streisand Subluxation or SiSS. Further adaptations welcome.
We’ve updated our post with some of the additional legal chills you mention in your Legal Chill post – it’s useful to keep a running tally.
August 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm
[...] Streisand Effect as shooting oneself in the foot or a self-inflicted lower spinal subluxation: the Streisand subluxation jdc offers: More Legal Chill – from Spine Cracking Chiropractors [...]
August 8, 2008 at 8:21 pm
[...] More Legal Chill -from spine-cracking chiropractors on jdc325’s blog [...]
August 9, 2008 at 9:03 pm
They seem to be running scared !!
May 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm
[...] More links to coverage of the legal shenanigans can be found in my earlier post here: more legal chill. Edit: Coracle has also now posted a response to the daffy legal threats – Weak minded, [...]