"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> sf wrote:
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>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:36:29 -0600, "Pete C." >
>> wrote:
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>> >
>> >cybercat wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Chiropractors are quacks.
>> >>
>> >> Right. Ass.
>> >
>> >Fact. You only have to look at the areas where they are found to see it.
>> >Chiropractors are virtually non existent in states that are known for a
>> >well educated population, and in those states chiropractors are only
>> >found in the low income lower educated areas.
>>
>> Times have changed and so has the chiropractic profession, Pete. I
>> remember when they were a bunch of vitamin pushing quacks too, but now
>> I can go to one for a $10 co-pay to my HMO.
>
> Coverage under an HMO in no way legitimizes them. Health insurance now
> provides limited coverage for it as well as other "alternative medicine"
> on the basis of public relations and possible placebo effect benefit.
>
> As for times changing, I see a large number of advertisements for
> chiropractors in the market outside of Dallas, and they still advertise
> vitamins, "cleansing", and all manner of quackery.

Simple spinal manipulation that puts the vertebrae back where they below and
so relieves muscle and nerve pain is a practical and efficient way to
releive pain. Physicians are doing it now. The "soft tissue" claims are
horseshit, and good chiroprators will tell you that. For you not to make a
distinction between the valid practitioners and the soft tissue Voodoo dudes
is like saying, "Doctors are quacks." Some are, some aren't. It's very
annoying when people state really stupid things with great self assurance.

There now, that's a bit more diplomatic than my simply telling you that
you're STUPID, isn't it?