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NEWS and COMMENT Florida Legislators, FSU NEWS AND COMMENT Florida Legislators, the deal on academic and scientific only way to combat this is to ensure that grounds.) After a protracted fight, York government leaders and media professionals FSU Faculty Clash over rejected the proposal in 2001. receive adequate scientific training based on Proposed Chiropractic reason, and that they also develop critical —John Gaeddert School at University thinking skills." John Gaeddert is Assistant Director of Public Ostrander traces the popularity of crude A proposed chiropractic school at Florida Relations for CSICOP. shark cartilage as a cancer treatment and pre- State University (FSU) has pitted state legis- ventive measure to I. William Lane's 1992 lators against school faculty in a battle that is book tided Sharks Don't Get Cancer, which equal parts science and politics. Shark Cartilage Cancer was further publicized by the CBS News pro- 'Cure' Shows Danger of gram 60 Minutes in 1993. Though Lane acknowledges in the book that sharks do, in Pseudoscience fact, get cancer, he bases his advocacy of crude cartilage extracts on what Ostrander The rising popularity of shark cartilage calls "overextensions" of some early experi- extract as an anti-cancer treatment is a tri- ments in which the substance seemed to In January, FSU considered a proposal to umph of marketing and pseudoscience over inhibit tumor formation and the growth of build the first public chiropractic school in reason, with a tragic fallout for both sharks new blood vessels that supply nutrients and the country. Florida Governor Jeb Bush and and humans, according to a Johns Hopkins the state legislature have already set aside $9 biologist writing in the December 1, 2004, oxygen to malignancies. million of annual funding for the proposed issue of Cancer Research. "The fact is that it is possible that highly school. (Governor Bush has been quoted as "Since shark cartilage has been promoted purified components of cartilage, including saying that the deal was more about making as a cancer cure, not only has there been a from sharks, may hold some benefit for treat- peace between warring politicians than any measurable decline in shark populations, but ment of human cancers," Ostrander said. particular interest in chiropractic medicine.) cancer patients also have been diverted from "The key will be to isolate these compounds The proposal was voted down by the proven, effective treatments," said Gary K. and design a way to deliver them to the site University Board of Governors. Ostrander, a research professor in the depart- of the tumor. Lane and others ignore these Several Florida politicians voiced support ments of Biology and Comparative Medicine existing barriers and suggest that consuming for the chiropractic school; they contend that at The Johns Hopkins University. crude cartilage extracts by mouth or rectum it would have attracted students and develop- In the paper, titled "Shark Cartilage, could be curative of all cancers—an approach ment dollars, as well as boosting the reputa- Cancer, and the Growing Threat of Pseudo- for which there is no scientific basis." tion of the chiropractic community. science," Ostrander writes, "Crude shark —Johns Hopkins University However, many FSU faculty members cartilage is marketed as a cancer cure on the opposed it. They argued rhat chiropractic premise that sharks don't get cancer. That's medicine is a pseudoscience and that such a not true, and the fact that people believe it is school would hurt FSU's academic reputa- an illustration of just how harmful the pub- 'Psychic' Con Artist tion. They also protested the way in which lic's irrationality can be." Caught in Police Sting the deal was arranged, with little to no input In fact, Ostrander's paper details more than from faculty members. Several pan-time fac- forty examples of tumors in sharks and related At the 2004 Bayou Lacombe Crab Festival in ulty members had threatened to quit if the species, dating back to the mid-1800s. In the Louisiana last July, a resident of Slidell, school was approved. paper, Ostrander and a team of researchers Louisiana, had a reading performed by a sup- One of the professors created a parody from the Registry of T u m o r s in Lower Animals posed psychic who called herself "Miss map of the campus, which designates a not only dissect what they call the "fallacious Jackson." While the woman sought the read- building for Chiropractic Medicine along- arguments" that have successfully convinced ing as entertainment, upon being informed side other paranormal departments such as desperate cancer patients to purchase and that she had a terrible curse on her, she began the Yeti Foundation, the School of ingest crude shark cartilage extract, but they to take the episode more seriously. But to her Channeling and Remote Sensing, and a also call for society to become more scientifi- relief. Miss Jackson quickly informed her Circle Simulation Laboratory. cally literate and, rhus, less vulnerable to skill- that the curse could be removed with the fully mass-marketed illogical claims. proper ritual, and the next day, the two This is not the first time that a partner- arranged to get together and discuss remov- ship between a major university and a chi- "People read on the Internet or hear on ing the curse. That procedure, predictably, ropractic organization has been attempted: television that taking crude shark cartilage involved a large sum of money which was to in 1995, York University in Toronto con- extract can cure them of cancer, and they be ceremonially buried in a specified loca- sidered a plan to affiliate themselves with believe it without demanding to sec the sci- tion in a paper bag—with a banana. the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic ence behind the claims," Ostrander said. College. (There are several parallels: the "This shows how the electronic media have Fortunately, the victim realized that she proposal was not made public until 1998, increased the potential harm of pseudo- was being targeted by a con artist and con- and advocates promised that the deal science, turning what would otherwise be tacted the Slidell Police Department. She was quaint cultural curiosities into potential seri- would bring in millions of dollars and asked by investigators to go through with the ous societal and ecological problems. The many new students while faculty opposed meeting so that Miss Jackson could be caught SKEPTICAL INQUIRER May/June 2005 5 NEWS AND COMMENT committing an act of fraud. Unfortunately, at Sweden, say they were motivated by 'Ancient Universe' die site, something raised the supposed psy- reports that an "anonymous donor" gave chic's suspicion, and she quickly gathered her sixty copies of the ID textbook Of Pandas Booklet Explains the magical implements and left the scene widi- and People to the school district. "We Great Age of the out performing the "necessary" ritual. (The wanted students in Dover to have access Changing Cosmos victim did manage to retain the $5,000 in to accurate information about science, marked bills.) about evolutionary biology, and about the In several U.S. states there have been On July 13, 2004, a team of officers real agenda of the Intelligent Design demands that discussions of the Big Bang arrested Jackson, also known as Lecia Urich, movement," says list founder Lenny and the vast age of the universe be excluded who operates a fortune-telling parlor in Flank, a freelance writer from St. from science curricula in K-12 classrooms. Kenner. Urich was booked on charges of Petersburg, Florida. In response, the Astronomy Education attempted theft of an amount greater than Board of the American Astronomical Society $500. Another woman later came forward, (AAS) put together an article first published reporting that she was similarly duped out of CSICOP Launches in a newsletter for teachers on the Astro- $37,000, so further charges have been added Creation Watch nomical Society of the Pacific Web site. in the case, which is still awaiting a court Web Site The AAS has now expanded this article appearance. into "The Ancient Universe," an illustrated For a more detailed account of a similar In an effort to help counter the misinfor- guide explaining how astronomers know that case, see Amy Davis's article, "Psychic mation spread on the Internet by creation- the cosmos is old and that it changes with Swindlers" on page 38 of this issue. ist groups, the Committee for the Scientific time. The booklet is designed for school —David Park Musella Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal boards, principals, parents, and anyone (CSICOP) has recently unveiled a interested in the scientific perspective on the David Park Musella is an editorial assistant "Creation Watch" Web site. In its early age of Earth and the physical world. with SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. stages the site will collect all SKEPTICAL The authors explain the evidence show- INQUIRER and Skeptical Briefs articles on the ing that we live in a universe that is between 10 billion and 15 billion years old and that Internet Group subject. The site will help promote good science education and an understanding of both the universe and its contents undergo Donates Evolution Texts the evolutionary sciences, and address the evolutionary change. A list of written and to Dover High School fallacies of creation and Intelligent Design Web resources is also included. The 20-page nontechnical booklet An international e-mail group that is available for free downloading on the focuses on opposing the teach- Web site: http://education.aas.org/ ing of Intelligent Design (ID) publications/ancienruniverse.html. creationism has donated over twenty science books to the Dover Astronomy, High School Library in Dover, Pennsylvania. The books include Astrology—What's What Evolution Is by evolutionary the Difference? It's biologist Ernst Mayr, Intelligent Politics Design Creationism and Its Critics by Robert Pennock, and Finding A saturation radio ad tiiat confused Darwin's God by biologist Kenneth astronomy with astrology was used to R.
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