Australian chiropractors are instructed to knock off the wild claims...

[Archae]

They won't, naturally.

Australian chiropractors ordered to tone down claims

The Chiropractic Board of Australia, which regulates Australian chiropractors, has warned that those who advertise unproven benefits might be prosecuted. [Spooner R. Watchdog warns chiropractors over unsupported health benefit claims. The Age, March 7, 2016] The board's announcement expressed "particular concern" about claims suggesting that manual therapy for spinal problems can assist with general wellness and/or benefit a variety of pediatric syndromes and organic conditions that not supported by satisfactory evidence. This includes claims relating to developmental and behavioral disorders, ADHD, autistic spectrum disorders, asthma, infantile colic, bedwetting, ear infections and digestive problems. The board also warned against discouraging vaccination. The message reinforced by Victoria's Health Minister Jill Henessee who said she was "visibly shaken" while watching a video of a Melbourne chiropractor cracking the spine of a four-day-old premature baby to treat colic. [Australian Associated Press. Video of chiropractor cracking baby's spine 'extremely distressing. The Guardian, May 5, 2016] Shortly after Henessee complained, the chiropractor agreed not to treat patients under 18 until June 2, at which time, the board is expected to take further action. [McArthur G. Chiropractor Ian Rossborough temporarily banned from treating children after viral video manipulating four-day-old baby. Herald Sun, May 16, 2016] Pressure against Australia's chiropractors is being driven largely by activists Ken Harvey and Malcolm Vickers, who have found more than 200 chiropractic clinic Web sites with improper claims. The extent to which the board will clamp down on other violators remains to be seen.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/watchdog-warns-chiropractors-over-unsupported-health-benefit-claims-20160307-gncr54.html

[Major Nikon]

1. Looks like the quacks are afraid of non-quacks regulating them

[whistler162]

2. Thought the story was about Chiropractors not

GP's!

[Major Nikon]

3. Sure, it's all funny until children die or are paralyzed because the parents took them to a quack

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2230695

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23027167

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17178922

Or children die of easily preventable diseases because a quack convinced them of anti-vax quackery promoted by none other than the quack certification authority.

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AU-seminars.pdf

http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/latest-news/chiropractors-linked-to-anti-vaccine-network

There's a good reason why actual doctors are certified and regulated. Allowing pretend doctors to practice pretend medicine has predictable adverse results.

[Dorian Gray]

4. spinal manipulation

on a 4 day old baby?

That's INSANE!!!!!

[Archae]

5. It's insane on anyone.

Chiropractic is a 19th century belief in "vital energy" being cut off due to "subluxations," something the chiropractors themselves can't define, much less treat.

Hence the constant asking for people to return again and again.

Here in the US babies are being given chiropractic, but they call it "family chiropractic."

At their annual conventions, 99.999% of any seminars or booths are concentrated on sales.
Sales to the suckers, and sales of overpriced supplements.

[Major Nikon]

6. There is some evidence that in limited circumstances spine manipulation has some efficacy

You don't need to go to a chiropractor to get it as physical therapists and some general practitioners can perform the same service. The problem with chiropractors is it's interwoven with quite a bit of quackery that has nothing to do with lower back pain, and they typically want you to keep coming back to them well past the point of any potential benefit.

[Shandris]

8. And yet there are tens of thousands of us with skeletal or other problems for whom it...

...works brilliantly.

We're just not smart enough to understand things like science. We're just total suckers, don'tchaknow.

Now, I'm not in favor of them adding all sorts of things that truly are quackery like colic and what-have-you, but let's not pretend spinal manipulation on an adult with an actual medical problem relating to the musculature or skeleton, or affected thereby is a non-effective treatment.

Cue up the 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, or 21 links of random chiropracter doing random bad thing.

[FLPanhandle]

7. All chiropractors would be out of business then

Since they don't do anything but take money from the gullible, all their claims are wild.

[HuckleB]

9. Australia keeps going with science.

Poor Canada. If Trump wins, the brains are going south.