Talk:Health Sciences University
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Chiropractic as pseudoscientific alternative medicine
editI am adding "(often considered pseudoscientific alternative medicine)" after "chiropractic" in the lead. The addition "pseudoscientific alternative medicine" is a direct quote from the beginning of the lead of Chiropractic (and there a lot of references for that opinion in that article, which I am guessing do not need to be repeated here (?)).
I have weakened it with "often considered" as I want to be cautious to start with, as I don't know where the balance of opinion is exactly about whether chiropractic is pseudoscientific alternative medicine or not.
"... written like an advertisement..." too weak for this article?
editI think that this article is seriously misleading for the general reader, and this is important because it is as it relates to "medical" qualifications, and how valid these are. This could mislead in particular people who are researching medical information from a patient's point of view, and people who are looking to go on courses, with fairly obvious possible negative consequences for people's health, and money, and time and energy.
I think there should be more in the article itself to warn of these issues, and possibly a stronger template: something like "WARNING...". I think the general reader will not understand what WP Templates are about. Also, "... written like an advertisement..." just seems to be saying that the info is ok, it just needs re-phrasing. I don't know how the best to go about these changes this myself (apart from what I have done already - see previous Talk topic above: "Chiropractic as pseudoscientific alternative medicine").
There are 22 references in the article at the moment,
- one goes to the General Chiropractic Council,
- one goes to the World Congress of Chiropractic Students,
- one goes to the QAA and does not mention this College or chiropractic,
- the other 19 go to the College's own website,
so there are no references supporting the Notability of this article, or the status of this college, outside the world of chiropractic. And chiropractic is often considered a pseudoscience.
There are other subjects covered at the College which are not themselves considered pseudoscience, but College was previously called the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic and chiropractic seems to be still important within it. The College's support of chiropractic calls into question the way other subjects may be taught (for this last bit is just my opinion).
The article mentions two related institutions in the UK, which does seem seem to lend more validity to the present College:
- University of South Wales, which I believe is a conventional university, which does at present offer courses in chiropractic,
- McTimoney College of Chiropractic, which seems to be similar to the present College,
but there are things in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:McTimoney_College_of_Chiropractic which relate to issues with chiropractic and these 2 institutions. I have not looked into these issues fully yet.