With the next public exhibition announced for 10 April - 23 May 2010 by Benedict XVI in June 2008 with more than half a million registered visitors, two events have further discredited the Shroud of Turin as the burial cloth of Jesus. Luigi Garlaschelli from CICAP, a member organisation of ECSO, created a full-body image of the shroud using techniques available in medieval times. Also, excavations of a real burial cloth in Jesusalem dated to the first century is completely unlike the Shroud of Turin.

Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results – and can even be lethal, says Simon Singh.

You might be surprised to know that the founder of chiropractic therapy, Daniel David Palmer, wrote that “99% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae”. In the 1860s, Palmer began to develop his theory that the spine was involved in almost every illness because the spinal cord connects the brain to the rest of the body. Therefore any misalignment could cause a problem in distant parts of the body.

ECSO has extended support to science journalist Simon Singh, who is under legal attack in the UK for his critical article about chiropractic. ECSO is one of the over initial 100 signatories of a statement in support of Simon Singh. On the 19th of June 2009, the campaign to keep libel laws out of science had received more than 12,000 signatories. Support from the scientific community and from skeptics all over the world has been overwhelming.