A university's struggle with chiropractic - York University, Toronto, Ontario

Finally, it is important to view your own struggle in the broader context, as part of a much larger campaign in which all skeptics are called to participate. Cash-strapped, postsecondary institutions will continue to be wooed in the near future by alternative medicine: "Have money, seek legitimacy. Are you for sale?" And the moment the first university succumbs to this temptation, society will have taken a fork in the road that leads away from enlightenment.

Michael De Robertis is a professor of physics and astronomy at York University and one of four faculty members who led the opposition against affiliation with CMCC. He is also a member of The Ontario Skeptics. Mailing address: Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1P3.

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