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Focus Altern Complement Ther 2005; 10:
Dear Editor,
As a member of the international editorial board of FACT, I am troubled by the decision to include the short article on chiropractic that appears in the FACT news section on page 67 of the March 2005 issue. This article comes from chirobase, which is a known anti-chiropractic website and which is run by long-time anti-chiropractic activists. Further, the actual report as presented here is essentially meaningless, presenting the data of high-school students who called local offices, read scripted surveys, and then collated their data into purported ‘unscientific belief and practice.’ I do not know where this was ultimately published but this is very much in line with the report from the 8-year-old girl who published an anti-therapeutic touch article in JAMA some years ago;1 in fact, at least one of the authors of that paper is involved with chirobase.
I expect better from FACT and suggest it stick to more rigorous science. This does not qualify, nor does it bring credit to the journal for it having a sense of balance.
