David Barron generally does good work for the Chronicle, particularly in reporting on media developments relating to professional sports and collegiate athletics. And this Barron piece in yesterday’s Chronicle about Waco chiropractor John Patterson’s work on various professional athletes is filled with all sorts of interesting anecdotes on the miraculous results of Patterson’s treatments on such professional athletes as Tracy McGrady, John Smoltz, Earl Campbell and former UT star pitcher and current Oakland A’s closer, Huston Street, among others.
But don’t you think that any reasonably objective newspaper article would at least mention the fact that there is substantial research (see also here) that has concluded that what Patterson is doing is quackery?
By the way, Street went on the disabled list yesterday with elbow tendonitis.