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RE: Promises, Poppycock and Placebo: Pseudoscience in Action!
It's also popular because it works.
While some of the early claims of Chiropractic had no merit much of what Chiropractors have done is cure people beyond just back pain. I don't like when Chiropractors make claims they shouldn't (and neither do the Chiropractors in my family) but it can do a world of good for ones body and that can, at times, fix problems that go beyond back pain.
It's popular for a variety of reasons, and one reason is that it appears to work.
So you freely admit this, yet still want to believe that it works? Aren't you being intellectually dishonest here? Cognitive dissonance preventing you from just giving up on chiropractic being a real healing modality?
Those chiropractors that make no outlandish claims and that don't charge incredible fees for what is basically massage are doing no harm and I can't fault them. However, they are benefiting from piggy-backing off of being thought of as a respectable medical professional. For those chiropractors that are staying within their scope of practice, once again, I'm all for that. But they aren't really healing anything unless it's related to placebo, adjunct therapies, such as massage or exercise, or known effective medical practice. The spine manipulation is a temporary buzz that people similarly get from cracking their knuckles. It doesn't heal anything.
Care to tell me what problems are fixed by chiropractic that wouldn't heal on their own?