I have been having a problem with user Fred Bauder on the Chiropractic medicine article, and it has no reached the point of vandalism. He is openly and repeatedly committing academic fraud; i.e. bald-faced lying.
In recent days he kept repeatedly citing a paper that specificly attacks chiropractice as frauduent...and somehow claimed that this paper *supported* chiropractic practice. He also rewrote the article to make it sound as if all spinal manipulation was chiropractic, which again is a bald-faced lie. In fact, many medical doctors would consider it actionable libel if their spinal manipulation was referred to in print as "chiropractice". Most medical doctors do not want their work to be tarred with a label that see as pseudoscience. And, in fact, chiropractic theory has nothing to do with mere spinal manipulation. Plenty of medical doctors totally reject chiropractic theory, yet still will manipulate the spine for a limited number of medical conditions.
It gets worse. After being told about these gross erros, Fred Bauder has refused to discuss the issue, refused to address the specific points raised, and has engaged in a series of reverts: Again and again he footnotes and quotes from an article *attacking* chiropractice fradulent, and he dishonestly is using it as if it offers support for chiropractice.
My previous comments to him noted this error, but his continued reversions of the article, and his repetition of this falsehood, now leaves us little choice but to assume that he is deliberately lying. This is vandalism.
If someone wants to cite a peer-reviewed medical report that supports chiropractic theory, fine. If someone wants to cite an article critical of chiropractic, that is fine to. But no one has the right to lie about the views of people who are against something (e.g. chiropractice), and who explicitly write that it has no medical support. Deliberately lying about the views of people (all of whom are medical doctors and scientists) is grossly dishonest.
RK
===== "I prefer a wicked person who knows he is wicked, to a righteous person who knows he is righteous". The Seer of Lublin [Jacob Isaac Ha-Hozeh Mi-Lublin, 1745-1815]
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