I appreciate your plight; I have devoted the past fourteen years of my life to teaching chiropractic technique and philosophy (since 1988), and by default (as an employee of chiropractic colleges) have been thrust into the world of research and scholarly activity as well. Since it would make sense that I would conduct research on those things I lecture on, inevitably I found myself confronted with the same dilemmas that Cooperstein and Perle have (they both teach as well as do research on chiropractic technique).And like myself they began as successful practitioners, but had a penchant for the academic life.
One of the issues an educator confronts is that of deciding what to actually teach to the students. In contrast to teaching/promoting a single technique, full time educators have a moral and contractual obligation to deliver information based on the "best available evidence", distinguishing proven fact from hypothesis and opinion. It is a time honored sacred trust we're talking about.
That being said, many millions of dollars has exchanged hands and thousands of hours have been spent in the name of "chiropractic techniques" that "get patients better". But scant few of the dollars or time resources of these companies or individuals has been devoted to validation of their product; it can clearly be said that responsibilities have not met. And in this current political healthcare atmosphere, accountability and validation rules the day.
Whoever wants to play in the chiropractic education arena is going to be held accountable to the standards which are universal in education and science. And this includes technique promoters and entrepreneurs as well. All healthcare educators claim they want to do what's best for the student and their future patients. It's the true teacher who reads broadly, digs deeper and validates what he/she says, or works to create that validation...and accepts the facts as they are, not as they would like them to be, and then incorporates these facts to create a new understanding or paradigm. To claim that there is no time or money...well that just goes with the territory...and it is not a valid argument for lack of proof.
Good luck on the SOT front...now is the time to prove your case,