Bad for Business

Bad for Business, but Good for People By J.C. Smith, MA, DC After attending the 1995 Chiropractic Centennial celebration in Washington, D.C., one experience in particular has stayed with me from the visit to our national capitol. At the Lincoln Memorial was imprinted...

Back Surg. Scam

Abstract Medical iatrogenesis is at an all-time high with increasing deaths, disability, and costs compounded by unnecessary and ineffective surgeries despite the warnings from WHO, the US Public Health Service, and the Institute of Medicine. One area, in particular,...

American Life Radio

Dear American Life:   Let me take one minute to state my case. Just as there are glass ceilings in corporations for women and people of color, there remains a boycott of chiropractors in the media, hospitals, workers’ comp, and military medical systems. Despite the...

AHCPR Gone with the Wind

Can Sex Sell Chiropractic?   AHCPR: GWTW by JC Smith, MA, DC   IT’S A SAD FACT THAT THE CHIROPRACTIC PROFESSION has no electronic public relations presence or professional advertising campaign. Our absence on television has, in effect, kept us in the dark ages of...

Affirmative Action

Academic DemagogueryFSU Fiasco by JCS  Two of the stated goals of the AMA Committee on Quackery’s goon squad were 1) the distribution of propaganda to the nation’s teachers and guidance counselors to discourage students from seeking a career in chiropractic, and 2)...

Academic Spring

Life’s Renaissance Academic Spring By JCS   There have been a few seminal events in the annals of American higher education that will be remembered as turning points. Certainly, the most famous is the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the 1960s when students...