no we just gotta get out your fluxions I promise lemme just make your bones make the GOOD noise and then all your fluxions will be gone 100% money back guarantee (apologies I was out of office last week as I was practicing my constitutional right to free speech in the nation's capital
If I have to hear the word fluxion one more time I'm going back in time and shooting Isaac Newton.
They love it when it has the presentation of something scientific, like their brain pills or their bullshit diet schemes
For the same reason every other bullshit alt-medicine field is full of chuds.
chiropractors are the used car salesmen of the medical industry, it adds up somehow
Adorno was right that belief in pseudoscience bullshit correlates to being a fascist in his F test
Because the mean ol' left wants to put regulations on his dangerous pseudoscience
Once had a physical therapist who would get indignant about people on welfare or “too lazy to work.”
Couldn’t get it through his thick numbskull head that he should reserve his indignation for the real grifters on Wall St.
Kept saying to him, “it’s like standing on a beach, and you’re hyper-focused on a handful of sand with maybe a hundred grains, when there’s an entire fucking beach of millions and millions of grains. That’s the difference in amount between people cheating welfare and the Economic Terrorists of Wall St pillaging the public coffers.”
What an odious, obstinate brainwashed clown he was.
Yeah, I always challenge all of these guys, anybody wherever I go.
It’s better to leave them with a couple of things to think about, even if they’re too thick from being conditioned by RW media.
I have a old close friend who’s very bright but basically a moderate, who like clockwork now regularly comes to me at intervals of 5 years (after attacking my views) to tell me I was right about all or most of it.
Gets exhausting though. I’ve found myself pulling away from this guy (who’s my oldest friend in the world) because I just can’t take his fear -based attacks. Just admitted to me last year he now believes there’s something to Institutional Racism, and that I’m responsible for two of the three most influential books on him (which includes Howard Zinn’s People’s History).
It’s worth it to hold your ground. Often times it does seep in. Eventually.
So glad you all are up to speed on this, ITT. How is it that being a lib comes with all this random nonsense of pseudoscience? Biden is going to save us, Harris has girl boss energy, and snappy snap bones is good health. What is that?
Very offhand take here, but I think it’s their way of coping with change that contradicts their indoctrination, and increasing economic precariousness that they feel but can’t understand within their framework.
They have been brought up wrapped in individualism that permeates every part of culture and thinking, and think an individual will save them. They want someone to bring back the past security they felt, and thus turn to people who represent the system they identify as their idea of what America is, which includes being a capitalist hack.
Identity politics, and the specific kind they gravitate to, is tied to the culture they’ve absorbed. Libs love stuff like the “melting pot” revisionism to feel good about a nation built on stolen land with stolen slaves. They have to rationalize their country, and some weird mutant idea of American social progress is the most they can do.
I consider liberals conservatives who just have some conscience because of all this. Some of them can be moved left, but some really are to their core invested in “America” that exists in their mind and the past, and not a better radically reshaped one the future. They love incrementalism because they’re just as scared of change as conservatives, but have a conscience that can be chipped away at on certain issues at certain points.
The fact that god is also mostly dead even in America for most people (for modern Christians etc.), also plays a role.
random nonsense of pseudoscience
Science and medicine is generally very impersonal. Good bedside manner is routinely "under-invested" in, and is important to emotional/psychological well-being, and the body and mind are closely connected. So pseudo-medicine is always going to be as effective as placebo+good bedside care, which is not nothing.
Because even outside of the USA (where chiropracty seems to be Latin for "fake doctor") they basically only study musculoskeletal anatomy in any real detail, alongside a whole bunch of woo.
Some are simply decent Physiotherapists who wanted to save some cash on their education, many are either anti-vaxxer hippie types or the worst sort of grifter.
Don't go to them for anything outside acute back pain.
I know this chiropractor from when I was younger, and they are CONSTANTLY sharing (like on a daily basis) anti-vax bullshit (a lot of it from chiropractor social media). They are also posting a lot about how much debt going to chiropractor school put them it. It's pretty depressing to me to watch somebody spend massive amounts of money to learn nonsense.
Why can't chiropractors just go learn actual physical therapy? Like having my back cracked feels nice, but you don't need to carry all this baggage of peddling bullshit.
I have had a weird obsession with watching chiropractors on YouTube. Total quacks of course. Chiropracty originates with a guy saying it was taught to him in a dream during a seance so yeah....
It's hilarious because they ask their patients all these questions then act like they're really unique or they have never seen someone quite like them. After which they proceed to do they EXACT same "treatment". They just crack all of their joints. For real that's it and it's the same for every person. Some different "doctors" have their own little unique "treatments" which are again the same for every patient.
One guy cracks me up because he makes them take off their shirt and walk back and forth. He also like to ask people about their periods along with a bunch of other random questions. What does he do with this information? No clue because again the treatment is exactly the same no matter what they say.
I think the point of the questions is rhetorical. Doctors ask questions and this guy pretends to be a doctor so he ask questions. Makes people think they're getting personalized care.
