Dear Dr. Crow:
In October 2003 you introduced yourself to this message board with a post titled Bone Setting to Improve Equilization (sic) Disorders. In that post you claimed:
Thesis:
Cervical spine manipulation (chiropractic adjustments) can be utilized to dramatically improve equalization disorders.
History:
Vertebral manipulation (chiropractic adjustments) have been proven (*emphasis added*) very effective for inner ear disorders (fluid congestion, earache, imbalance, vertigo). The research regarding this subject has been properly done, valid, and repeatable.
You went on in that post to say:
I have been conducting ongoing research into this
and:
Currently, a young member of this board is undergoing this research experiment.
(See:
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=38067 )
In that thread, one of your chiropractor colleagues claimed that:
A major part of my education was to attempt to publish a study in any refereed journal. This is a part of the training in all 14 CCE accredited Chiropractic colleges (*emphasis added*).
If you attended an accredited chiropractic college in the US, presumably you were taught what properly done, valid, and repeatable research is- so Im sure that you are aware that part of doing valid and repeatable research properly involves making the results of that research available to others- generally by publishing the research in a peer-reviewed scientific journal so that other researchers can examine the validity and repeatability of the results, and so that others can benefit from the research. In a thread from this April (See:
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=134892 ) you even said:
I enjoy very much reading academia, from many perspectives. I enjoy my peer-reviewed paperwork, data from other health care practices, even the theoretical research stuff.
(and)
Specifically, I am certainly interested in research and studies. I read them constantly.
Hey, thats super! So I presume that you have access to properly done, valid, and repeatable research and were trained to recognize it when you see it. Heck, you even formatted your original post to make it
look like a scientific thesis to a lay person.
But to refresh your memory in case youve forgotten (it has been over 2 ½ years since you first made your claims, after all), you may recall that when Scubadoc asked you in that original thread to provide the properly done, valid, and repeatable research that you claim exists, rather than just answering the question you gave us some anecdotal reports from your own personal experience (very interesting, but
hardly properly done, valid, and repeatable research), you told us to search the Chirolars chiropractic search engine for ourselves- a search engine that is not available to the general public best I can tell (but is presumably available to
you since you referred us to it), you suggested that we travel to one of the 19 or so chiropractic schools in the US to look up the information on our own, and you gave us links to websites that were either invalid or linked to irrelevant chiropractic marketing sites that had no information to support your claims.
Finally, and most interesting of all, you might recall that you referred us to the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics- a peer reviewed scientific journal run by chiropractors and sponsored by the
National College of Chiropractic- to find the research you claimed. When I searched this journal (abstracts from which
areavailable to the general public), I was able to find only one article even remotely relevant to your claims. That article-
in your own reference source- not only didnt
support your claims of properly done, valid, and repeatable research, it actually seemed to
refute your claims of available research! (See:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10395431&dopt=Abstract )
When I pointed out these problems with your references to you and asked you to provide the properly done, valid, and repeatable research that you claimed, you said that you
couldnt wait to get back to me, but that you were too busy rebuilding a hot-rod engine to take the trouble to back up your statement with credible evidence! You promised to get back to me later. About 1 ½ years later, you posted again about bone setting to improve equalization disorders so I asked you once more for the properly done, valid, and repeatable research that you claimed. Perhaps you didnt see my request for further information, because you ignored it.
I would think that someone with time to make remarkable assertions would have the time to support those assertions with the evidence that he himself says exists. It has been over 2 ½ years since you first made your statements on this board, Dr. Crow. Youve had plenty of time to find the properly done, valid, and repeatable research that you claimed, or even publish your own research that you claim to be doing on an ongoing basis. My we have your references now please?
