Comments on: Simon Singh Makes Chiropractors Cry http://www.skepticmoney.com/simon-singh-makes-chiropractors-cry/ You make sense but does your money? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Skeptic Money » Blog Archive » Simon Singh – UK Libel Update - You make sense but does your money? http://www.skepticmoney.com/simon-singh-makes-chiropractors-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-1596 Skeptic Money » Blog Archive » Simon Singh – UK Libel Update - You make sense but does your money? Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:39:50 +0000 http://www.skepticmoney.com/?p=600#comment-1596 [...] has announced that he will not longer be able to write for the Guardian.  If you have not heard he has been sued by the British Chiropractic Association, for daring to say that some Chiropractic treatments are [...] [...] has announced that he will not longer be able to write for the Guardian.  If you have not heard he has been sued by the British Chiropractic Association, for daring to say that some Chiropractic treatments are [...]

]]> By: Glock21 http://www.skepticmoney.com/simon-singh-makes-chiropractors-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Glock21 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:32:49 +0000 http://www.skepticmoney.com/?p=600#comment-1395 I had no idea that chiropractors still did the whole vertebral subluxation quackery until a few years back. Had a girlfriend who went to see one here in town after a rollerblading fall. While waiting in the lobby he had a big screen tv running a video selling that snake oil BS... sure enough he pointed out all the magic subluxations on the x-ray and how they were doing all sorts of horrible things to her in life. From what I understand the field is still split between the total quacks and those who actually do some medically useful things. The total quacks need to lose any sort of official sanction and get tossed out of any coverage from tax funded programs. It boggles the mind that this kind of nonsense is still taken seriously in the western industrialized world. "Faith" is disturbingly infectious. New agey hippy mysticism is no exception. I had no idea that chiropractors still did the whole vertebral subluxation quackery until a few years back. Had a girlfriend who went to see one here in town after a rollerblading fall. While waiting in the lobby he had a big screen tv running a video selling that snake oil BS… sure enough he pointed out all the magic subluxations on the x-ray and how they were doing all sorts of horrible things to her in life.

From what I understand the field is still split between the total quacks and those who actually do some medically useful things. The total quacks need to lose any sort of official sanction and get tossed out of any coverage from tax funded programs. It boggles the mind that this kind of nonsense is still taken seriously in the western industrialized world. “Faith” is disturbingly infectious. New agey hippy mysticism is no exception.

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