12/29/2004
Voting with their feet
The Legislature is ramming a chiropractic school down FSU's throat, an addition college administrators never asked for and don't want, but that former Senate president Jim King insisted on building anyway. Now it looks as though some FSU medical school professors will resign over the issue.
The threatened resignations - at least seven to date, all from assistant professors who work part time - reflect a belief among many in the medical establishment that chiropractic is a "pseudo-science" that leads to unnecessary and sometimes harmful treatments. Professors are even circulating a parody map of campus that places a fictional Bigfoot Institute, School of Astrology and Crop Circle Simulation Laboratory near a future chiropractic school.
