`RfC: Effectiveness of chiropractic care ==   Is Chiropractic's discussion of effectiveness biased? If so, what should it be replaced with?  === Claim of bias and proposal for fix ===  This subsection addresses a serious POV problem with the current version of Chiropractic, namely, heavy bias in its discussion of the effectiveness of chiropractic care. Much of the problem has been discussed extensively on this talk page for weeks, so far with no consensus. This subsection is an attempt to gather the issues together in one spot and propose a solution. This is a controversial issue that may require some work to resolve; please bear with the following exposition as it covers many issues.     To help other editors follow this discussion better, please place comments below, after the the proposal.  ==== POV in existing coverage ====  There is conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of chiropractic care, and Chiropractic should present the evidence fairly without giving undue weight to minority views. Unfortunately Chiropractic currently falls seriously short of this goal. Here is a summary of POV problems in Chiropractic's treatment of effectiveness:  * Chiropractic gives a section to the Manga report, a 1993 effectiveness paper highly favorable to chiropractic that was not published in a peer-reviewed journal. Chiropractic does not mention the widespread peer-reviewed criticism of the Manga report (for example, ``The Manga report was not a controlled clinical trial but a review of the literature that offered an opinion that has not been experimentally established.`` in Grod et al. 2001, PMID 11677551). In any event, the Manga report was long ago superseded by higher-quality work and is not now a reliable source for effectiveness. * Chiropractic gives a section to worker's compensation studies that, like the Manga report, are old, disputed, and strongly pro-chiropractic. Contrary evidence is widely available in peer-reviewed journals, e.g., Hess & Mootz 1999 (PMID 10395430), Johnson et al. 1999, but Chiropractic does not mention it. Again, this material is obsolescent and low quality by today's standards, and is not now a reliable source. * Chiropractic gives two sections (Chiropractic#American Medical Association (AMA) and Chiropractic#British Medical Association) that mention old endorsements about effectiveness and referrals. This material might be worth putting into the Chiropractic history subpage here, but it is way too much detail here, and it gives the mistaken impression that the old AMA statement reflects the best current science on effectiveness. * Chiropractic#Scientific investigation repeats material from Chiropractic#Philosophy that (aside from being redundant) has little to do with scientific investigation: it approvingly describes some antiscientific components of chiropractic philosophy, which is POV. The section's second paragraph is highly dated (it talks about grant funding in 1994 and 1995, which again is material suitable for Chiropractic history but not here) and talks with almost entirely approving note about chiropractic research (again, POV coverage of a controversial subject). The section's third paragraph is entirely unsourced; that is not POV in itself, but it is a worrisome sign.  In short, Chiropractic's coverage of effectiveness (a core topic) is currently weak and is heavily biased in favor of chiropractic.     (Again, please place further comments below.)  ==== Criticisms of earlier proposed fix ====  To help fix this I proposed Effectiveness 1, a draft section on effectiveness that relies on recent high-quality scientific sources, along with a proposal to remove the obsolescent material. This draft has been discussed extensively in Draft effectiveness section and #An appeal: Drop the ``effectiveness`` discussion, so far with no consensus. To help move matters forward I have drafted a new section below, #Effectiveness 2, which attempts to respond to some (but not a