Chiropratic Is A Joke, Okay?
This month a British court may rule that chiropractic treatment is a complete fraud and its practitioners are total quacks, which is completely true but something it's best not to say in mixed company because there's always someone who swears by it and is completely offended that you're questioning their faith in what is pretty obviously total bunk. Anyway, we'll keep you posted.
Chiropractors invariably have hairy knuckles and exhibit a fondness for gold jewelry.
In Western MA, they wear Birks and go without makeup.
Me: "Mom I'm gay."
Mom: "No shit."
Me: "Chiropractic Medicine is a scam."
Mom: "You are dead to me."
You would never hear a Jewish mother kvell over their child being a chiropractor. Oh, the shame of being almost a doctor.
I tried not to, but …
A similar decision was made in 1066 regarding dentistry.
My late grandfather was a small-town family doctor. He used to tell me that chiropracters were quacks when I was a boy, and I've believed it ever since.
Turns out one patient he had was a boy who died of a brain tumor. Apparently, the boy had been complaining of bad headaches for quite some time, but a chiropracter had told them it was due to a misalignment of the boy's spine, and he was trying to "cure" the headaches by doing "manipulations" (or whatever chiropracters call what they do).
By the time the boy finally was finaly taken to a real doctor (my grandfather), the tumor had reached a fatal point and it was too late to operate.
Or so my grandfather said, anyway. He'd get quite angry on the subject. "Chiropracters are dangerous quacks! One of them killed that poor boy!"
Chiropracters stole my sister's violin and used it for firewood.
I'm sure that ruling will need to be adjusted
I'm sure it will be, as the British are notoriously spineless.
And easily manipulated.
I like it when somebody cracks my back. Is that faith?
only if you believe it's curing you of disease.
I've had several conditions treated successfully by chiros when regular doctors just wanted me on pills that didn't work or gave me numerous other conditions. So…yeah, I'm the quack, I guess, who's pain-free again. But please, have the pain you want.