[WikiEN-l] Fred Bauder and academic dishonesty

[Robert]

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


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"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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