Tedd Koren’s free
May 2007 newsletter
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving and tolerant of the weak and strong because someday in
your life you will have been all of these. – George
Washington Carver
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe
impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland
Barrett and
Quackbusters update
The merry month
of May will be just that for the chiropractic profession and
anything but that for the Quackbusters and Stephen Barrett, MD,
the man who has made it his life’s mission to damage our
profession. Barrett lost a major lawsuit last year and the judge
ordered Barrett to pay $250,000.00 for the defendant’s legal
fees. Barrett appealed this and the judge raised it to
$400,000.00. Stay tuned. And please go to our web site (www.foundationforhealthchoice.com)
and donate to help keep the heat on Barrett and the Quackbusters.
More on this in the next issue.
Is the ACA harming the
profession?
 Many would answer that question in the affirmative. After all,
since the American Chiropractic Association’s (ACA) accrediting
agency, the CCE (Council for Chiropractic Eradication?), took
over chiropractic education costs have skyrocketed beyond
anyone’s expectations while the quality of chiropractic
education has fallen.
In addition, ACA dominated groups such as the National Boards
have added great expense to students’ already considerable
financial burdens. And it is a waste of time. Doctors leave
school with incredible debt.
The ACA’s horrible legacy has hurt us in many ways,
among them:
Financial - Trigon drained over $5 million from the
profession – and the ACA lost, thrice! The ACA was repeatedly
advised to use different tactics because of the great expense
and high likelihood of failure (I wrote of it in this newsletter
and received nasty letters from ACA officials).
Embarrassing to our philosophy and science
the ACA went
on record supporting vaccinations. Professional outrage forced
the ACA to modify its position but its original statements are
STILL being used against us by the medical profession. For
example, when pediatricians are faced with a patient who says,
“My chiropractor gave me information critical of vaccinations”
they are advised to tell them:
“The American Chiropractic Association advises the public
that vaccination has been shown to be a cost effective and
clinically practical public health preventive procedure for
certain viral and microbial diseases." Centers for Disease
Control
Contrary to chiropractic – the ACA publicly stated, in a
paid ad in the Wall Street Journal, its approval of antibiotic
use for otitis media – just as medical journals (and over a
hundred years of chiropractic outcomes) were publishing papers
claiming the opposite.
ACA’s legacy of “Bad Things”
Worth reading is the article Bad Things Have Occurred During
ACA’s Watch (1989-2206) by Don Harrison, DC in the April
2007 Clinical Chiropractic. Harrison recounts just some
of the ACA’s legacy of failure, incompetence and illegal
activities.
Happily there is an alternative and the profession is waking up.
The ICA (International Chiropractors Association) has been
growing in membership (yes, I belong) while the ACA has been
losing membership.
Tedd predicts
 Because of their financial losses due to decreasing membership I
predict the ACA will start clamoring for merger with the ICA.
Shortly after writing these words, guess what just came across
my desk? I am not making this up: COCSA (Congress of
Chiropractic State Associations, dominated by the ACA) is demanding that ICA and ACA merge. I kid you not. Alert
reader Steven C. Eisen, DC files this report….
COCSA demands merger of ICA and ACA
“I was truly astonished to read the COCSA “Resolution on
National Unity” demanding that the ACA and the ICA ‘set aside
their philosophical and political differences and begin the
process of merger.’”
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/25/10/07.html
“COCSA stated, ‘In our government, we have Republicans and
Democrats who don’t like each other, but they would lay their
lives down for this country. It’s time for the doctors of
chiropractic in the ACA and ICA to lay their egos down for this
profession.’
“This is an extremely confused understanding of democracy.
Because opposing political parties would lay their lives down
for this country does not mean they would allow a merger of
their parties. In fact, doing so would be an abomination of the
principles this country was founded on. It is no different for
chiropractic.
“Further yet, consider COCSA. They were the organization that
funded and supported the Mercy document, which the ICA opposed.
Imagine a chiropractic profession dictated by one organization
which approved devastating antics like Mercy, with no opposing
voice. That is called a dictatorship, and that is what COCSA is
demanding.
“How about the Boy Scouts of America passing a resolution
demanding that all of the countries in the world merge?
“COCSA clearly has no understanding of simple and basic
political principles. Mercy was harmful enough, but this draws
the line. In fact, what has COCSA ever done to help our
profession? Or perhaps, they really and truly believe that a
chiropractic dictatorship would be best. So while they ask the
ACA and ICA to lay down their egos, their proposition would only
create one big ego. 2 big egos are way better than 1. That’s why
there are Republicans and Democrats. And that’s why there is an
ACA and ICA. Thank you COCSA, but no thanks.”
Discover Wellnesss
 Some people still think chiropractic should stay unique. That
includes much of the general public and they’ll discover that in
the book:
Discover Welllness: How staying healthy can make you richby Bob Hoffman, DC and Jason Deitch, DC. Available from Koren
Publications 800-537-3001,
www.korenpublications.com .
Here are guerilla tactics paying off big time. Getting the
chiropractic message out in ways the general public will love.
Hoffman and Deitch made the best seller lists and have gotten
loads of radio, TV and newspaper reviews. Great going guys!
Majority of medical research is “worthless”
 “The great majority of published research is so deeply flawed
that it should be considered essentially worthless,” says John
Ioannidis, PhD, an epidemiologist in the August 2005 journal
PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine.
He states, "For most study designs and settings, it is more
likely for a research claim to be false than true." Ioannidis
mentions several types of study likely to lead to a worthless
result:
- Studies with a small sample
size ('underpowered' studies)
- Studies with a small effect size, i.e., studies in which
the drug or technique under investigation leads to
improvement in only a small percentage of patients.
This is found in many anticancer drugs.
- Studies whose outcomes are poorly or subjectively defined,
such so-called 'surrogate endpoints' such as tumor shrinkage
to measure outcome instead of objective measures such as
death. Most cancer studies employ surrogate endpoints. For
example, oncologists speak about “response to care” but
patients don’t want to die with smaller tumors, they want to
get well and be healed. That is often ignored in these
studies.
- Studies where financial conflict of interest is a factor
- Studies where the researchers are prejudiced to a
particular outcome
- Studies of a topic that is currently 'hot' – the hotter
the field, the more teams are working against one another
and competing to be the first to publish, and this is likely
to lead to selective reporting only of positive results
Ioannidis points out that several of these factors are
working in concert with one another. For example,
researchers in a 'hot' field are more likely to be
prejudiced in favor of one or other hypothesis, as well as
to be competing fiercely with other teams to be the first to
publish. As he sees it, though, the bottom line is
unambiguous: most research findings are false for most
research designs and in most fields.
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California what he learned. Linda A. Eisen, DC
Autistic children clinically proven to be mercury poisoned
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=67953&nfid=rssfeeds
Recent peer-reviewed scientific/medical studies by Nataf et al.
(2006) and by Geier and Geier (2006) leave little doubt that
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using UPPA to identify mercury poisoning.
'I Will Not Express Thanks'
Editorial in
The New York Sun March 30, 2007:
 Every once in a while there comes a diplomatic moment to
remember. On youtube.com you can
watch the representative or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWgZu6tcZU UN Watch, Hillel Neuer gives a speech before the 4th session of the Human Rights
Council in Geneva lamenting the loss of the dream of Eleanor
Roosevelt and other architects of the human rights movement
within the UN. Mr. Neuer offers honest criticism with
irrefutable evidence. The president of the council responded —
for what may be the only time in its history — by refusing to
thank a speaker and declares he will ban any other critic of the
commission if he says anything similar again. Freedom of speech?
Not at the UN Human Rights Council. The
full clip is only a few
minutes long. Click here for the
full text of his remarks which
so offended the president of the UN council.
Unnecessary angioplasties
As many as 50,000 heart attack patients each year have costly
angioplasties that don’t help them and could increase risk of
another heart attack, researchers reported in the New England J
of Medicine. As an example of medical arrogance, many doctors
were so certain that angioplasty was best for patients that they
refused to take part in the study.
http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/research/late_angioplasty.html
 Letters
Hello Tedd,
first of all, thank you, i have read some about your work, i am
grateful, and the universe is grateful, this may sound trite, i
do mean it from my heart, i read your 2001 newsletter,the story
on the irs was hilarious, i really laughed and laughed more and
bigger than i ever remember.
i would appreciate getting your newsletter.
thank you,
Botswanna Imani
PS. Botswanna in the Tswanna language, which is the language of
Botswana, the country right above South Africa, means the LAND
OF THE TSWANNA (tswanna is a kind of an antelope). It is also
"bat tvunah", which means daughter of understanding in the
hebrew language.
Imani means FAITH in Swahilii, it is close enough to the Hebrew
(emunah) in arabic Imam means a believer.
 My husband and I owe you a world of thanks. We ordered your
Vaccination Lecture kit and started lecturing in my husband's
clinic (before I graduated), at Babies R US, at the Parker
College Pediatric Club and other places. At one talk, the
midwives in our area attended hoping to get some business for
their
clinic. But, at the end of our talk they actually asked us
to be guest speakers at the Texas State Midwifery Conference in
May. Because of you, I was able to lecture to the midwives of
Texas only 2 weeks after graduating from chiro. college!
Thank-you! We are so fortunate as a profession to have geniuses
like you fighting for us, and giving us resources. We get
patients every single time we do your talk. God bless you for
the lives you save, you have been such a blessing. Dr. Cynthia Haggerton (and Dr. Jim Bob Haggerton)
Go to www.korenpublications.com to learn more about the
Vaccination Lecture Kit.
Humor
 An artist, lawyer and computer engineer were talking about
having a mistress. The artist spoke of the passion and
excitement of forbidden love. The lawyer pointed out the risks
and costs declaring it’s not worth the trouble. The computer
engineer chimed in, "I think it's great! My wife thinks I'm with
my mistress, my mistress thinks I'm at home, and I can spend all
night on my computer!" John R. Nissley, Jr., DC
All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite
enough time considering how their online names might appear (and
be misread). Check them out yourself!
1. "Who Represents" is where you can find the name of the agent
that represents any celebrity. Their web site is
www.whorepresents.com.
2. Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can
exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com.
3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net.
4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com.
5. There's the Italian Power Generator company,
www.powergenitalia.com.
6. And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South
Wales, www.molestationnursery.com.
7. If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always
www.ipanywhere.com.
8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is
www.cummingfirst.com.
9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky
Web site, www.speedofart.com.
See you next month. Please come to a KST seminar and your
practice, and life, will never be the same. Find out more at
www.teddkorenseminars.com.
Dr. Tedd Koren is the most widely read Doctor of Chiropractic in
the world today. Writing for Koren Publications (www.korenpublications.com),
over 50 million of his popular scientifically referenced and
highly acclaimed patient education brochures have been
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