Anti-vaccine chiropractors 4

The Chiropractic Board of Australia has had enough:

“We will not tolerate registered chiropractors giving misleading or unbalanced advice to patients, or providing advice or care that is not in the patient’s best interests,” chairman Phillip Donato said.

Dr Donato said chiropractors should only provide evidence-based treatment and anyone with concerns should report them. [Sydney Morning Herald August 9 2013]

Today’s episode stars Chiropractors’ Association of Australia member, Simon King. King practices at Tweaks – Health Solutions, in Grafton NSW.

I’m not going to bother debunking obvious anti-vaccination misinformation. Especially when the sources are so far down the rabbit hole they’ve struck essential oil. Let’s see what Simon says is good immunisation information, worthy of being shared from his business’s Facebook page.

Simon says: Sanevax.

Simon says: Health Danger.

Simon says: Gary Null vaccines/autism zombie epidemic. No, really.

I also want to point out a section of the Chiropractic Board of Australia’s advertising guidelines, for no reason:

Guidelines for advertising of regulated health services

5 What is unacceptable advertising?

This section is intended to provide a clear indication of the
type of advertising of services that the boards consider to
be unacceptable. Where examples are provided, they are
intended to assist practitioners and other persons who
advertise regulated health services to comply with the
advertising provisions of the National Law. They are not
intended to be exhaustive.

To comply with s. 133 of the National Law and these
guidelines, advertising of services must not:

(d) use testimonials or purported testimonials

Oh, okay. Of course there is a reason:

Over to you, CBA.