American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition

[Jolly]

This is different...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/covid_did_not_panic_chiropractors_why_not.html

[Aqua Letifer]

1. DOs have the exact same mentality.
2. How do chiropractors restore a long COVID patient to health, exactly?

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

1. DOs have the exact same mentality.

Not the ones I've met, trained, worked with, and had take care of me and my family.

2. How do chiropractors restore a long COVID patient to health, exactly?

Well, there you go. It's super seeekrit manipulation of the spine.

Damn, I almost gave it away.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@Aqua-Letifer said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

1. DOs have the exact same mentality.

Not the ones I've met, trained, worked with, and had take care of me and my family.

Okay sorry, I should have said how they were trained. The only difference in training between a DO and an MD is extra hours in osteopathic procedures, where "care of the whole person: mind body and spirit" is harped on. The language is very, very similar.

A lot of DOs take it or leave it once they graduate and get licensed.

2. How do chiropractors restore a long COVID patient to health, exactly?

Well, there you go. It's super seeekrit manipulation of the spine.

Damn, I almost gave it away.

That's what I thought.

[Doctor Phibes]

This is when political medicine discovered chiropractic and set out to strangle it in the crib. You have not read about chiropractic and polio, and you won't read about chiropractic and the Spanish Flu elsewhere, either, but I learned about it, as we say, from the horse's mouth.

After breaking my vow not to read American Thinker articles, I'm not convinced he didn't mistake one end of the horse for t'other, as we say in Lancashire.

[Jolly]

Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.

I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...

[jon-nyc]

It’s really not that different at all. He’s still talking shit, it’s just a different day.

[Jolly]

Uh, you do know that American Thinker is an omnibus blog, written by multiple people...

[George K]

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.

When my back was bad, I went to a chiropractor. Nice electrical stimulation, twists and cracks of the spine. Felt good and loose afterward.

For about a day.

I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...

You're not going to find a bigger pile of BS than this:

"Ask a chiropractor if he treats diabetes, and the doctor will no doubt tell you no. How about ulcers? No. Asthma? No again. What then do you treat, doctor? I treat patients — patients with diabetes, patients with ulcers, patients with asthma. "

...which he says at the end of an article about how chiropractic cured a comatose girl dropped off at his doorstep and healed a woman with (presumably) some kind of cancer.

This article is a steaming pile of bullshit.

[Jolly]

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

Argument construction 101: you can actually use credible sources, not quackery, to bolster your claims. As a matter of fact, it actually works as better support.

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

Placebo effect.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.

I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...

I agree. My wife goes to one regularly. But not for Polio.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

Placebo effect.

Maybe. Or maybe there's something that works for some people...

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@LuFins-Dad said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

Placebo effect.

Maybe. Or maybe there's something that works for some people...

Not masks, though.

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@LuFins-Dad said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

@Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition:

Back to this one...

I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc.

The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people?

I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach.

Placebo effect.

Maybe. Or maybe there's something that works for some people...

Not masks, though.

There is no placebo effect on masks, unless you mean a psychic rather than physical effect. Viruses ain't people.