The ICI Experience:

This post was originally published on 4/5/08. I was just responding to recent a comment to it and decided to check its links. I saw that there is at least one important dead link, so I'm updating the post and re-publishing it. The Whitcomb series have been ever popular on my blog (check the sidebar for titles and links to all of them). I was just checking the stats for this particular post on statcounter.com, and I see that someone has visited it 212 times. That seems a little odd to me. Anyone have any ideas for me on that? Anyway, on with the update. Any changes I've made are in green italics. "Silence is fraud's best friend. Word of mouth is fraud's worst enemy. Pass the word!" Fraud Aid Let me say this first and foremost: There is no cure for Fibromyalgia. If there were a cure for Fibromyalgia I would know about it. There. Is. No. Cure. Why, you might ask, am I doing this? I'm really tired of Dr. Whitcomb's holdings (book, website) comin...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: April Alameda AAlameda@chiro.ca.gov > Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM Subject: Dr. Paul E. Whitcomb, D.C., license number DC 11681 Dear Ms. Johnson, This is in response to your correspondence dated April 11, 2008, which was received by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners on April 15, 2008. You have requested copies of complaints and/or Decisions related to Dr. Paul E. Whitcomb, D.C. Please be advised that complaints are exempt from disclosure pursuant to Government Code section 6254, subdivision (f). Therefore, the Board is unable to respond to your request. With regards to Accusations, our records indicate that an Accusation has not been served at this time. If you have further questions or concerns regarding this matter, please contact me via email or at the telephone number listed below. Sincerely, April Alameda, Program Analyst Board of Chiropractic Examiners (916) 263-5329 ...

Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), "How to file a complaint against a chiropractor" ... Although chiropractic boards occasionally discipline practitioners, they almost never interfere with quack practices. Pro-Quackery Legislation by Stephen M. Barrett, M.D. California BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS 2525 Natomas Park Drive, Suite 260 Sacramento, CA 95833 Attn: Enforcement Unit Suggestions from Quackwatch.com: Prepare three copies. Send one to the agency that licenses chiropractors in your state (in the state where the chiropractor is licensed - see above). Indicate that a copy has been sent to the state attorney general (see below for CA) so that the board knows that an outside agency is aware of the complaint. Send the second copy to the state attorney general, but don't indicate that a copy has been sent to the licensing board. (If you do, the attorney general's office might ignore it.) Send the third copy to Quackwatch, P.O. Box 1747, Allentown, PA 18105 an...

"Fraud is deliberate misrepresentation. Quackery, as we define it , involves the promotion of unsubstantiated methods that lack a scientifically plausible rationale." Stephen Barrett, M.D. Board Chairman, Quackwatch , Inc. I am writing this series of blog posts on chiropractic and quackery because it is inconceivable to me that Paul Whitcomb continues to be allowed to be paid to practice chiropractic medicine on people with Fibromyalgia while his patients/victims are becoming bankrupt, their families are falling apart, and their health is no better, and in many cases it is worse than it was before they laid their life savings out for “the cure” to Fibromyalgia, a.k.a. "The Whitcomb Method." This can be stopped. We can stop it. All it takes is awareness. While it may be obvious to you and I that The Whitcomb Method is a scam, to others it sounds like the cure they’ve been hoping and praying for. I hope you will help me create the simple awareness it w...