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		<title>Beware the spinal spin</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2013/04/beware-the-spinal-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a document on the website of the British Chiropractic Association titled  &#8221;CONFIDENTIAL FOR BCA MEMBERS ONLY&#8221; is an open invitation… Perusing the BCA&#8217;s website usually finds extremely useful advice on schoolbags, gardening, bras, shopping, Bank Holidays, baking, gadgets, sitting and, of course, Christmas. This time, however, I was bravely looking for what they said about the differences between chiropractic and osteopathy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop this unscientific meddling</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2013/02/stop-this-unscientific-meddling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exposé  by Prof David Colquhoun of the interference by the Department of Health — at the behest of homeopathy promoters — in the publication of impartial, scientifically-based information about homeopathy on the NHS Choices website has been covered by the Guardian and the Daily Mail this past week. Damned by their own words, the DoH said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Chiropractic Association: Attempting to ‘manipulate’ the entire Scottish population?</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2013/02/the-scottish-chiropractic-association-attempting-to-manipulate-the-entire-scottish-population/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2013/02/the-scottish-chiropractic-association-attempting-to-manipulate-the-entire-scottish-population/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue_Wode</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chiro wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiropractic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Chiropractic Council (GCC)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Blue Wode. Originally published on The Twenty First Floor on 14 March 2012. Introduction In recent times, the two main UK chiropractic associations, the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) and the McTimoney Chiropractic Association (MCA), have come under intense scrutiny. The BCA was brought to its knees by the misconceived libel case it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A right Royal chiro cock-up</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/11/a-right-royal-chiro-cock-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/11/a-right-royal-chiro-cock-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jubilation in the chiropractic world! But, as usual, all is not what it might first seem… Chiropractors granted Royal Charter: The College of Chiropractors will soon be given the honour of being named the Royal College of Chiropractors. In doing so, Chiropractors become the first complementary health specialty to be awarded a Royal Charter. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fog on the Tyne</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/09/fog-on-the-tyne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/09/fog-on-the-tyne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) is an important tool for everyone, not just skeptics. It gives the right to anyone to ask for any information held by public authorities who are obliged to supply that information unless it is covered by a limited number of exemptions. The House of Commons Justice Committee said earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The bitter sugar pill</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/08/the-bitter-sugar-pill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/08/the-bitter-sugar-pill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his Guardian article, Homeopaths offer to rebrand products as &#8216;confectionery&#8217;, Martin Robbins tells the story that, faced with being unable to sell their products as homeopathic medicines because they were unlicensed, a manufacturer offered to re-brand them as sweets. The irony of that won&#8217;t be lost on many, but what else has been going on? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>That ‘neutral’ Swiss homeopathy report</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/05/that-neutral-swiss-homeopathy-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/05/that-neutral-swiss-homeopathy-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the Swiss Government really think about homeopathy? By Sven Rudloff and Zeno A lot has been made by homeopaths about the &#8216;neutral&#8217; Swiss Government&#8217;s report and its unequivocal support of homeopathy. It&#8217;s been lauded by the luminaries of the homeopathic world as further proof — as if any was needed, of course — that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiro regulator admits systemic failures</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/04/chiro-regulator-admits-systemic-failures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/04/chiro-regulator-admits-systemic-failures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zenosblog.com/?p=3461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been 100%  sure of the exact numbers of complaints of mine the General Chiropractic Council had to deal with. I certainly submitted a list of 524 names, but the number changed as the complaints were processed. Quite a few chiros were added to my initial list because they were at the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer in Totnes</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/03/cancer-in-totnes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/03/cancer-in-totnes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how I came across it, but it was probably on Twitter. A conference on alternative cancer treatments is being held in Totnes in Devon this coming Saturday, organised by Dr Stephen Hopwood (cached) of the Totnes Cancer Health Centre (TCHC). Because of its content, I immediately complained to Consumer Direct (the central point for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OfQuack: protecting the public from quack nutritional therapists?</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/02/ofquack-protecting-the-public-from-quack-nutritional-therapists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/02/ofquack-protecting-the-public-from-quack-nutritional-therapists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many nutritional therapists who will give responsible, evidence and science-based advice. What is OfQuack doing to ensure their nutritional therapists don&#8217;t mislead the public? Their new &#8216;therapy descriptor&#8217; needs careful analysis. I blogged a few days ago about the investigation by the consumers&#8217; organisation Which? that revealed nutritional therapists giving dangerous and misleading [...]]]></description>
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