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What Chiropractors Can't Say: Previous Advertising Standards Rulings on Chiropractic:

[bpsdb] Recently, the Advertising Standards Agency adjudicated against Dr. Carl Irwin and associates, noting that their claims that chiropractic was an effective treatment for colic could not be substantiated. Thanks to some excellent work by Alan Henness of Think Humanism, we now know that the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) guidelines, which every UK practitioner must apply by, state that:

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Christian Voice, the HPV Vaccine and Freedom of Speech

[bpsdb] I intended to publish this two months ago and didn't get around to it, but given the recent kerfuffle about the Daily Mail's stance on HPV, I thought I'd drag it out of the archives. It's about fundamentalist "group" Christian Voice, the HPV vaccine, and freedom of speech, and it touches so many of the recurring crank themes out there. The story starts with an innocent, inoffensive little advert in the New Statesman, and includes probably the funniest ever smackdown by the Advertising Standards Agency.

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