Chiropractic And Politics

Jann Bellamy has posted on the Science-Based Medicine blog an expose of Chiropractic efforts to gain legislative approval as legitimate primary care providers. As the conclusion states:

It is unfortunate enough that the state legislatures have legitimized a figment of the imagination first proposed by a charlatan in 1895 — the “subluxation” — by creating a licensed health care profession known as chiropractors to “detect” and “correct” them. Giving chiropractors authority to prescribe dietary supplements, and, even worse, drugs, only exacerbates their original mistake. Instead of expanding the scope of practice, state legislatures should remove diagnosis and treatment of the nonexistent “subluxation” from the chiropractic practice acts.