Florida, like a lot of states, is cutting higher education spending while at the same time raising tuition. So why is this the time to add a chiropractic school? There is no need for additional chiropractors in the state, and programs across the state are being slashed. In addition, FSU would have the only state-supported chiropractic school in the nation!!! Also, FSU's new College of Medicine is working on accreditation, and this development can't help.
I don't want this thread to turn into the validity of chiropractic, because that has been rehashed over and over again. I, like most people, believe that chiropractors are great for many patients. However, that does not mean that FSU should have a chiro school forced upon it just because the Senate majority leader is a chiropractor!
Chiropractic is a moderately successful business technique based on the (extremely powerful and very real) placebo effect. There is no scientific method or research in this enterprise.
Who has decided that FL has "enough" chiropractors???? Have we dismissed the law of supply and demand? Perhaps FL has too many physicians?
We hear like arguments here on FR from medical people whenever any state wants to give PAs or NPs more room to work.
They all want the government to stay out of the medical profession, yet they want the same government to make sure no one muscles in on their territory. What we have is a union shop enforced by the government.