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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by jstarfish on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:14PM (#18684253)
> Would you not want someone to be able to verify that they have the skills to do what they say they offer.

The state of Georgia (and likely many others) requires chiropractors to have a license.

Please explain how the State is uniquely qualified to determine the competence of a practitioner of junk science?

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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by ahallock on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:31PM (#18685004)
Please explain how snide, dismissive statements contribute to a healthy discussion? There are chiropractic techniques which I do not agree are junk science and produce good outcomes for patients. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081245/

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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by A2017U1 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:26AM (#18687209)
How does it compare against a placebo in a double blind trial? This is simply a single case report with no comparison.

Chiropractic remedies have a long history of being questionable.

Wikipedia provides many sources:

> Systematic reviews of this research have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[4] A critical evaluation found that collectively, spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition

> It is frequently associated with mild to moderate adverse effects, with serious or fatal complications in rare cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic

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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by grandmczeb on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:18PM (#18686394)
I don’t think anyone thinks patients can’t have good outcomes after having chiropractic techniques applied - it’s more a question of causality. A single case where spinal manipulation was used to successfully treat tinnitus is probably not a good argument in that case.
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