Events: detail
Chiropractic - A 113 year struggle from pseudoscience to legitimacy
- Hosted by:
- The Skeptic Magazine
- Speaker:
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Professor Mahlon Wagner, State University of New York
- Starts:
- May 06, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- May 06, 2008 at 10:00 pm
- Location:
- The Penderel's Oak, , 283 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7HP United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
In the US, Chiropractic is the second largest of the health-care professions with close to 50,000 practitioners (Doctors of Chiropractic, or D.C.). Significant numbers of chiropractors also exist in the UK and Europe as well as Australia.
Mahlon will examine the origins of Chiropractic (a healer in 1895), the questionable diagnostic and treatments used, reasons for their success, and public attitudes toward (and satisfaction with) chiropractic as compared to traditional medicine.
Mahlon Wagner (Professor Emeritus of Psychology – State University of New York) taught experimental psychology, statistics, research design, history of psychology and parapsychology for 30 years at Oswego.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
A £2 donation is requested to cover the guest speaker’s travelling expenses and sundries. Non-skeptics are welcome. Turn up at any time during the evening. The room is open from about 5.30pm.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Sid Rodrigues
- Phone:
- 020 8943 7540
- Email:
- pub [ at ] skeptic.org.uk
- Website:
- Chiropractic - A 113 year struggle from pseudoscience to legitimacy
