A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).

Alternative health as a form of fundamentalism

When chiropractors use spinal manipulation therapy for symptomatic relief of mechanical low back pain, they are employing an evidence-based method also used by physical therapists, doctors of osteopathy, and others. When they do “chiropractic adjustments” to correct a “subluxation” for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or “health maintenance,” they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable.

It is criminal to claim that it can cure HIV, malaria or TB. If refrigerated it can help with thirst though.

On the quackery of chiropractic spinal manipulations. I like this bit though: "The courtroom is no place to settle scientific disputes, and silencing journalists, scientists or sceptics with legal threats is, in my view, cowardly."