cybercat wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ster.com...
> >
> > sf wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:36:29 -0600, "Pete C." >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >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?

Please explain the correlation between chiropractors, check cashing
outfits, pay day loan outfits, strip mall churches and low income, low
education populations.