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If a doctor that administers a number of effective and proven treatments also practiced "vertebral subluxation" or bloodletting I would classify that doctor as
by garrettgrimsley 13y ago
If a doctor that administers a number of effective and proven treatments also practiced "vertebral subluxation" or bloodletting I would classify that doctor as a charlatan.
Quackery runs amok in their industry, as evidenced by their major trade groups' stance on vaccination,[1] and genetically modified plants.[2] Ironically, while also supporting "alternative elective course of action" in lieu of vaccination they also support "enforcement efforts against quack medicines...that endanger the public health..."[3]
[1] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=10&searchQuery=vaccine#firstSearchHit http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=1...
[2] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?ID=10&T1ID=10&T2ID=117&searchQuery=genetically#firstSearchHit http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?ID=10&T1ID=10&T2ID=11...
[3] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=10&searchQuery=fraudulent+cures#firstSearchHit http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=1...
- ahallock 13y agoYes, I agree with you in general, but let's not abandon effective treatments in the process of weeding out the snake oil.
- garrettgrimsley 13y agoIf I implied that I did not mean to. Effective "alternative" treatments are absorbed in to mainstream medicine and become standard practices. I could see chiropractic being on-par with orthopedic physical therapy if they were to disavow the pseudo-science plaguing the field.