All Antigo waited, with bated breath, for the August issue of the Family PrimeTime insert in the Antigo Daily Journal. Would there be yet another plagiarized piece by one of Antigo’s chiro-mafia? Or would the ADJ run a piece of original chiropractic authorship exposing the community to still more witchdoctor fantasy health care mythology? Would Fred Berner finally print an acknowledgment and apology for the Stephen Veselak plagiarized pieces he published earlier? The answer is — No! No to all of the above!
There is no chiropractic article in the August Family PrimeTime at all, either plagiarized or laughably self-authored. No article, nothing, zip, zero, nada, from the Antigo coven of DC’s except a pathetic little ad by Stacy Bula – “The Power That Made the Body, Heals the Body. It Happens No Other Way.”
What happened? Some will claim that Editor Fred Berner finally got tired of the AntigoBuzz static about his pervasive skirting of accepted journalistic standards and his persistent copyright violations and decided to pull the plug on his shoddy chiro contributors. However, that can’t be true, because Fred told me, face to face, that he doesn’t read “that stuff” from AntigoBuzz. And when Fred says something like that, you better believe him, or he’ll just say it again, and again, which is his way of claiming incontrovertible truth.
I think it was the Scott Tatro article, featured in the July PrimeTime, that did the trick. Although the article made no mention of chiropractic, I think its publication in Family PrimeTime made chiros very eager to seek a low profile, and stay away from the critical eye.
You see, Scott’s paralysis, his “locked-in syndrome”, was caused by a stroke induced by a chiropractic adjustment. In fact, Scott’s web site http://scottslockedin.com is titled, “Locked In – Chiropractic Adjustment Gone Wrong”. But Fred Berner had all references to chiropractic and chiropractors withheld from the story, leaving readers to surmise that Scott’s stroke was just one of those everyday mystery strokes you hear about all the time.
Deleting such references may have satisfied Fred’s rather feeble grasp of journalistic sensitivity, but it didn’t fool those of the community-at-large who know the facts of the case. In fact, the rather graceless cover-up attempt only highlighted the controversy Fred was trying to avoid.
I think just running the article, even with chiro references artlessly redacted, alarmed the chiro-mafia and put them on the defensive. I hope the result is that we’ll hear no more mystical chiro mumbo-jumbo in Family PrimeTime, ever. And I will begrudgingly thank Fred Berner for that.
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Wow…If you would stop the self gradification and look past your own ego for a moment you would see that there was an article by a chiropractor.
Ah! Ah-HAH! Thanks for the re-direct, Whitey. You’re right – there IS an article by a chiropractor. I missed it because of the title, “Suggestions on parenting your picky eater”, and because the cutline doesn’t say anything about her being a chiropractor except for the initials D.C., so my initial search didn’t pop up a chiro flag.
Somehow, it never crossed my mind that an article about managing children’s eating habits would offer a chiropractor as an authority on the subject. I would expect that Bonnie Hessedal, registered nutritionist and also a PrimeTime author, would be a more likely and believable authority.
Is Amy offering advice from a chiropractic view from her presumed professional expertise, or as an uncertified concerned Mom? Remember the shoddy, unscientific research she offered to support chiropractic treatment for otitis media (ear ache) in her PrimeTime article earlier this year? Why would we believe anything she has to say about nutrition any more than, say Suzanne Somers or Marie Osmond?
YAWN
Yeah, Watrp. That’s how I felt after reading Amy’s article. Yawn…. Nothing new, nothing helpful, nothing substantiated, and, did you notice? Nothing chiropractic… in an article by a chiropractor… giving her chiropractic credentials as the only sign of expertise… for a subject outside her chiropractic expertise. Why do these people think they shuck and jive Antigo’s reading public? How about giving us credit for a couple of shreds of intelligence here in the Northwoods?
By the way, Watrp, when you wake up from your little nap, take a look at http://www.squidoo.com/stroke-chiropractor for background on the story that you will never, ever see in ADJ as long as chiropractors buy ad space from Fred.
I can’t believe so many people fall for the baloney that chiropractors dish. Spinal adjusting? PuHLease! They are cracking your back and neck and it is dangerous! At most you might get minor temporary relief, just like cracking your knuckles. Even stranger is that people actually trust their infants and children to these people. I just don’t get it at all!