The demise of the Foundation of Chiropractic Education and Research seems almost impossible to me. It's depressing. FCER was the evidence that chiropractor's cared about research and were serious in supporting it. But, since two-thirds of the money FCER needed each year came from individual DCs, apparently doctors are choosing between paying their dues, or paying other bills, like those for food and shelter. This does not bode well for our profession.
The membership in professional organizations is low, especially chiropractic. Now, we've lost the one group that should have made any DC proud. I fear we will now have more representation from the "junk" researchers in the profession, who publish in "junk" journals and come to prejudicial conclusions despite of the outcome of any investigation.
But what is even more depressing, is the suspicion that DCs are not making more money now than they were eight or none years ago. At that time, $80 to 85K was the average. What is it now? There is no current study to tell us, since we probably don't really want to know.
