Chiropractors ‘fear public ridicule’

Press, 24 June 1978, Page 4

Chiropractors ‘fear public ridicule’

PA Wellington! Chiropractors feared they; would be held up to public ridicule if they had to produce examinations of competency to the Commission of Inquiry into chiropractic, the; Commission heard. The Council for the Physiotherapists’ Society (Mr B. Williams) made the comment after asking the, Chiropractic Board to pro-. duce its examination papers '' for the Commission. I

I Fie said the physiotherapists wished to show that ■ there was nothing “magic” (about chiropractic that did not lend itself to scientific scrutiny. “We want to know what these people are taught and ( show that it is, as we suggest, without scientific basis.” Insufficient literature on chiropractic, had been produced at the six inquiries involving it since 1958, Mr Williams said. His client! ; organisation had been frus-; trated by the lack of rele-'

vant literature at previous inquiries. ( He said he thought it (necessary that North American literature on chiropractic should be provided two weeks in advance. This would allow proper crossexamination. Mr Williams said he would like to see the original literature from which references were taken, and included in the Chiropractors’ Association’s submissions tabled before the Commission.