Effectiveness in treating what? And what do you mean when you say chiropractics? You want a study on effectiveness in treating asthma or deafness, then it's p

Effectiveness in treating what? And what do you mean when you say chiropractics? You want a study on effectiveness in treating asthma or deafness, then it's probably not available. Effectiveness in treating something like scoliiosis? Yep, there is a study for that[1]. How about headaches? Seems to be some positive research on it[2]. Now I'm no scientist or statistician and there are also studies point to non-effectiveness in things like lower back-pain[3], yet even that study acknowledges that it's difficult to ascertain since most chiropractic packages aren't limited to simply adjustments. I find it interesting how many people denounce sweeping generalizations when it comes to programming paradigms and approaches to infrastructure and application development... yet still fall victim to it when it's a topic outside their domain. We're still just talking about problem solving here, so how come it's not a matter of defining the problem and assessing each approach in context of that problem? [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259989/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259989/ [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8775024 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8775024 [3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447290/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447290/