pg. 10A    Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Tuesday Evening, August 10, 1982

By PATRICIA JIMENEZ
Star-Telegram Writer

White-haired, bespectacled Earl Craton golfed his age the other day.

It was something of which the 80-year old former Fort Worth resident was quite proud.

"Last year I golfed my age too," he confided.

Craton retired two years ago, after 57 years as a chiropractor, to Granbury and a house he started building for himself when he was 68. He finished the house, he said, when he was 72.

Now he spends his days golfing - at least five times a week, he said - and fishing. He looks like he could be a walking advertisement for his skill. He looks years younger than he is.

Although he was quite ready to talk about a chiropractic technique he discovered during his many years of practice, he insisted he wanted to make it clear that he accepts patients now only on a referral basis.

"What I want now is for someone who is really committed to chiropractics and who wants to learn my technique to come and work with me so they can learn how to do it," he said.

"It's not something you can learn from a lecture podium," he said. "It takes practice."

Craton explained that he had noticed by looking at human skeletons (rather than plastic ones) that the first vertebrate upon which the head sits has facets. He said he discovered that, in some cases, by manipulating the head rather than the spine he was able to cure many patients who had not been cured by other methods.

These patients, he said, had been going to see other chiropractors or medical doctors and often suffered multiple ailments from headaches to intestinal disorders.

He had a number of letters, testimonials to his success, from some of those patients.

Craton, who attended the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Oklahoma, said some things have changed - such as the fact that chiropractors now are allowed to practice.

"It used to be they would be arrested for practicing medicine without a license," he said.

Now chiropractors have their own board and regulations, and it's becoming more common for chiropractors and medical doctors to work together, he said.

Some figures estimate about 24,000 chiropractors nationally but Craton said he doubted there are that many. He said Texas has about 800.

Although Craton said he expects to be around a number of years longer, he was worried that his technique will die with him.

"After all," he said, gesturing with a crooked-shaped pen, "you can't argue with success."



   Important corrections to the article:

   1) Dr. Craton wasn't just a chiropractor; he was an independent
        researcher as well. FYI: Ultimately he had to turn his back
        on the chiropractic profession due to that profession's
        unwillingness to embrace badly needed change. He had
        disproved the so-called "science" of chiropractic and knew its
        basic tenet [of SPINAL MANIPULATION to correct
        VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATIONS in order to remove
        nerve interference (correct term: "nerve signal interference")]
        to be a fraud.
   2) Craton discovered through studying a human skeleton
        rather than a plastic copy, that the first vertebra upon
        which the head sits has, not two, but four facets for
        articulation with the head.
   3) The mentioned manipulation of the head is actually a
        specific adjustment that brings the head back to center
        and into a proper articulation with the atlas.
   4) The Palmer School of Chiropractic was in Davenport, Iowa.


Is NSIR chiropractic?

   The chiropractic profession refused to learn Dr.
        Craton's methods as they needed to and the
        regulatory agencies refused to improve their paradigm
        and raise their standards. Dr. Craton's life's research is
        fortunately still alive and well, and was passed through his
        family line. Unfortunately, change comes about slowly and
        the chiropractic field is apparently threatened financially,
        (a populace that does not seek chiropractic "care" would
        NOT replenish chiropractic's hefty bankroll). They have
        chosen to actively fight this badly needed change, and have
        wrongly accused the only true practitioner in Craton's
        unique life's research in the world of practicing
        chiropractic medicine without a license [the ONLY claim
        they can make in order to continue (they've been successful
        for nearly 40 years already)] to suppress Dr. Craton's
        unique research. To date, we are still in this legal battle and
        are looking for any chiropractor who would be willing to blow
        the whistle on the chiropractic fraud in a court of law.

   What we are offering is a unique philosophy/method and
        higher standard for achieving health and well being for the
        suffering and defrauded public that STILL has a RIGHT
        to choose the TRUE form of Dr. Craton's life's work.
        We are still hoping to create a large following of practitioners
        and are no longer just offering to teach Dr. Craton's work
        to the chiropractors. The chiropractic profession truly had
        its chance to do the right thing and straighten up its morals
        and its practices, and now the PROFESSION has missed
        the proverbial "boat". I understand that the law does allow
        for me to legally work under another practitioners wing,
        at least that is what I was told by the Medical Staff
        Coordinator in a local hospital when she wanted to bring
        me on staff there, in my specialty. And, even with the
        temporary injunction in place, and that disclosure made
        known, still more chiropractors have requested that I work on
        them. Apparently my service to a doctor is legal (if,
        as discovered, I am allowed to legally work under their wing).
        Why isn't the public legally being allowed as much?! The
        State's claim is that this is a matter of "public safety". Well IF
        the State is really interested in public safety then they would
        advise the chiropractors to straighten up their morals and
        their ways and cause the chiropractors to make the
        responsible improvement that we have demanded of them for
        the last 25 years. Instead, the State has apparently thrown
        taxpayers' money into this job of quashing the truth and has
        worked together with the Chiropractic Board in order to
        construct a lie in the Court. When I spoke to the Assistant
        Attorney General who is behind this effort when I
        approached the Chiropractic Board head-on from 2000
        on, his implied statement was that Dr. Craton's work was
        worthy of the Nobel Prize. What is wrong with this picture?

   From the beginning of time, whilst Mankind was still in the
        Garden, even God knew the absolute importance (necessity?)
        of allowing for the freedom of choice. Why has the State
        assumed and claimed more knowledge than the Creator
        Himself?! Is the State really so wise?! Hasn't the State
        forgotten about the Ninth and Tenth Articles of the Bill
        of Rights? My Declaration has been on the State's desk
        since November 2000. In fact, it was this Declaration that
        finally forced the State to respond to my demands for the
        chiropractic field's improvement. Apparently the Bill of
        Rights still held some weight back in 2000. But what about
        now? Hasn't the State forgotten about the First Amendment
        as well? Dr. Craton's unique life's research had to take the
        path of becoming a religion in order to secure it's place in the
        sun. It is obvious in our web site, as well as my original
        resolution and challenge to the chiropractic Board, that our
        ideals and philosophies are steeped in spirituality/religious
        experience. And, our final required push to cause the
        chiropractic profession to become honest took place on
        Millenium, when the Spirit moved so dramatically upon the
        Earth. In fact, my meeting with the Chiropactic Board in
        their chambers to tell them outright that their "vertebral
        subluxation" was nothing more than a "sacred cow" took
        place on January 19, 2001. Just ten days earlier, I had
        witnessed a rainbow in what I had been told was
        an extremely powerful full moon and was inspired
        to create one of the many rainbow graphics on the
        web site. Point of interest: the white lines in the
        graphic shown are representative of the Star of David.
        There are two stars depicted in a spiral embrace.

   I never claimed to be a chiropractor, and I don't, never have, and
        never will, practice chiropractic as it is today!! And quite
        frankly I believe that if they haven't straightened up their
        act by now, they never will. Chiropractic is a fraud that seeks
        undue financial gain. It is a "science" that was built on a
        pseudo-religion (a lie), and that "science" has been proven
        false, more than 20 years ago. When a theory is proven
        wrong then the scientific method clearly states that the theory
        must be abondoned. Chiropractic leaders have instead made
        the effort to redefine the basis ("vertebral subluxation") for
        their existence and have concocted a convoluted definition
        for what they treat (the "vertebral subluxation", which now,
        due to my efforts, they have made the move to even change
        the TERM to something else). They recently claimed in the
        Court that the updated term was "segmental dysfunction"
        and that they were making the effort to "fit more to the
        medical model". They have WILLFULLY failed to
        acknowledge publicly the truth of the matter, that a
        subluxation is only a partial dislocation, which IS the medical
        definition/model. This is no surprise since the chiropractic
        literature has repeatedly explained that the "chiropractic
        subluxation" meaning "vertebral subluxation" does NOT
        mean a partial dislocation. Obviously chiropractic's leaders
        are mostly corrupt, or, for whatever reason, (maybe they're
        embarrassed, or maybe they've got political pressure put on
        them, or maybe they're liable for the recall that they should
        have and didn't order for the chiropractic profession, etc.),
        they won't stand up against the blatant lies that have been
        propagated for more than a century now. They are doctors
        after all, and doctors know everything ... don't they? I wish
        the Court would be so wise. It is not hard to see through
        the chiropractic facade; their storefront is peeling by now
        and in major need of repair. Why should the Court believe
        that Chiropractic has the know how to clean up their act on
        their own? Obviously, they truly don't know where to start.
        If they did know, then they would have already done a proper
        job by now, and especially since they took a whole three
        years to let the press (01/19/2004) know that I was a force
        to be reckoned with after all. And I'm sorry, but the idea of
        changing the classic chiropractic term of "vertebral
        subluxation" to "segmental dysfunction" in order to "fit the
        medical model" is just laughable when all they have to do to
        "fit the medical model" is FINALLY admit that a subluxation
        is a partial dislocation, and no, vertebrae cannot partially
        dislocate. And then if they really wanted to do the right thing,
        they would admit to the Court that there is another cause
        (that we have repeatedly told them about) that the
        chiropractors either missed, or chose to ignore, as to why the
        spinal column does what it does (shifts to accomodate for
        stressors directly above, below, and around the spine). Time
        will only tell if the chiropractors will come clean on this
        subject, and until they do, they will continue to rip off and
        endanger the public as they've already done for how many
        decades now? One more time ... our efforts to cause the
        chiropractic profession to become honest, and raise their
        standards, have obviously been earnest for the last twenty
        five (25) years. And they've known that Dr. Craton had a
        knowledge of the human body that was superior to their own
        since (documented) 1954.

   And finally, I have been asked recently in deposition on one
        of my court cases about my understanding of Dr. Craton's
        work. I had to admit that I saw his life's research as the work
        of Jesus Christ, after all, Jesus too, understood how to
        effect healing with a wisdom in His touch. The opposing
        attorney didn't seem to think that my understanding was
        strange in the least. Maybe I do know myself after all. I wish
        the "authoritative" world would respect as much. It IS my
        right/responsibility to follow the path that I feel that God
        has called me to, and as I was told by an older lady who was
        well respected in the church: sanctification is a matter for the
        individual, and only the individual can decide on the
        sanctification ... that personal and inviolable walk with God
        (Truth). Why do you think that the First Amendment begins
        as it does? Even America's money still states: "In God We
        Trust". Now if only the Court would act accordingly, and
        realize that doctors ARE NOT GOD. In fact, in this case,
        they are in bed with a bunch of fabricated lies, and what
        really disturbs me, is that the Assistant Attorney General
        for Oklahoma that represents the chiropractors here, is in
        that same bed too. I guess I'm still doe-eyed hoping that the
        State (via Grant Moak, Assistant Attorney General) would
        do the right thing and get out of that bed of lies. Inevitably,
        his choice to stay in the lie (if that is what he chooses to do)
        will be a black mark on the State of Oklahoma. I'm not
        backing down. I know the truth, and I'm not crazy as so many
        have tried to say. Am I honest? Unfortunately, brutally so ...
        which is probably the problem in the end; the State has
        constructed for itself this illusion of authority (being right).
        Unfortunately, that illusory mindset brings on a corruption
        of the absolute power that they have claimed. They have
        made themselves responsible for the "safety of the public",
        to the exclusion of the public's free choice, and the only
        parties that I am legally allowed to "demonstrate" on are the
        doctors, who of course, have already blocked Dr. Craton's
        life's research from reaching the public. The only valid reason
        why they would have a responsibility to block Dr. Craton's
        unique research from reaching the public is if I had hurt one
        of them. Did I hurt one of them? No, I did not! In fact, I was
        able to help them when their chiropractic colleagues could
        NOT do as much. Again, what is wrong with this picture?!

   Corruption? Perhaps ...


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Superior facets of the human atlas
Skull and occipital condyles of the human skeleton
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Human axis of the axial skeleton

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