And I thought everyone loved going to the chiropractor

The University of Florida is set to introduce a school of chiropractic medicine to it’s campus and to say the least, not everyone is happy. A group of professors, arguably some of the most well respected professors in science, have threatened to quit if the University opens the school on the grounds that chiropractic medicine is a pseudoscience.

The threatened resignations…reflect a belief among many in the medical establishment that chiropractic is a “pseudo-science” that leads to unnecessary and sometimes harmful treatments…

The list of critics include FSU’s two Nobel laureates - Robert Schreiffer, a physicist, and Harold Walter Kroto, a chemist - and Robert Holton, the chemistry professor who developed the cancer-fighting drug Taxol, which has brought FSU tens of millions of dollars in royalties. In recent weeks, more than 500 faculty members have signed petitions against the chiropractic school, including about 70 in the medical college, said Dr. Raymond Bellamy, an assistant professor who is leading the charge against the proposal.

I hope the insurance companies don’t see this.

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Post by: Brendan | December 30, 2004 | Filed Under everything else