I appreciate what you say and I guess you write in good faith. (That is, your partner isn’t a struggling chiropractor on the back streets of Iowa.) Anyway, have you considered that your improvements and the visit to the chiropractor may not be causally linked? It’s common for people to attribute causation to things that co-occur, but that doesn’t mean chiropractic actually has provided a cure. It may simply be that you are getting better all by yourself.
The best way to test the effectiveness of chiropractic is by RCT. Those, unfortunately for chiropracty, tend to show chiropractic works around the level of placebo. There is research that purports to show chiropractic works above and beyond placebo, but it is generally of the lowest level, such as case studies by chiropractors published in the ‘journal’ JSVR. Most scientists consider the basic principles of chiropracty to be biologically implausible.
A further question for you: does your chiropractor crack your neck? (They’ll call it upper cervical manipulation.) If they do, you might want to look up ‘risks of chiropractic’ in Dr google. It may shock you.
Regarding the vicar: Did she/he then go off making vaccines in their garden shed and hawking them around neighbourhoods whilst proclaiming they were a figure like Jesus Christ? I doubt it. But that’s roughly what D Palmer did. Until his son BJ ran him over and took over the family business. (Yes, that’s business!)
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JKJ,
I appreciate what you say and I guess you write in good faith. (That is, your partner isn’t a struggling chiropractor on the back streets of Iowa.) Anyway, have you considered that your improvements and the visit to the chiropractor may not be causally linked? It’s common for people to attribute causation to things that co-occur, but that doesn’t mean chiropractic actually has provided a cure. It may simply be that you are getting better all by yourself.
The best way to test the effectiveness of chiropractic is by RCT. Those, unfortunately for chiropracty, tend to show chiropractic works around the level of placebo. There is research that purports to show chiropractic works above and beyond placebo, but it is generally of the lowest level, such as case studies by chiropractors published in the ‘journal’ JSVR. Most scientists consider the basic principles of chiropracty to be biologically implausible.
A further question for you: does your chiropractor crack your neck? (They’ll call it upper cervical manipulation.) If they do, you might want to look up ‘risks of chiropractic’ in Dr google. It may shock you.
Regarding the vicar: Did she/he then go off making vaccines in their garden shed and hawking them around neighbourhoods whilst proclaiming they were a figure like Jesus Christ? I doubt it. But that’s roughly what D Palmer did. Until his son BJ ran him over and took over the family business. (Yes, that’s business!)
November 16, 2011 - 8:11pmThis Comment
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