American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition
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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.
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Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.
I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.
I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...
@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.
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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.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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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.
@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.
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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.
@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.
The Brad
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Look, chiropractic works. In some cases. For some things.
I have a whole bucket full of skepticism for his claims...
@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.
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@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.
@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...
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@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...
@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.
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@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.
@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.
