Chiropractic Quackery

Fascinating. I always have heard that one should be very, very careful in choosing a chiropractor, as the spine isn't something you want just anybody messing around with. (And apparently accredidation and certification standards among chiropractors are very spotty.) But I really had no idea that there was such a high percentage of scam artists, quacks, false inflation of problems, scare tactics, and other fun abuse of fellow humans for profit amongst the ranks of chiropractors. This article rather reminds me of things I've read about auto mechanics! But I'd rather have some quack screwing about with my car than with my central nervous system, thank you!

What happens when healthy people go to a Chiropractor. A very interesting, (though admittedly skeptic-leaning) look into Chiropracty. Choose your chiropractor with care, and don't let one scare you into treatment you don't need!

(Oh, and a "subluxation" in chiropractic terms is a place where your spine is very slightly out of alignment, which is supposed to result in all sorts of horrible conditions, but which as yet has not actually been scientifically proved to exist at all.)

Edit: I just finished reading a detailed account of one of the people mentioned on the above page. It's scary! The guy reported what even I can recognize as potential heart attack symptoms in one case, and the chiropractor offered to adjust his ribs. Meep.

*grin*

Watching all the NaNo squirming, panicking, self-flagellating, and neurotic spending of all free time going on really amuses me. This is probably evil of me. But the poor sods brought it on themselves. I will never do NaNo. It is not at all in my nature to focus on one single thing that long. Doing a speed crunch costume and having to do one single thing for just one week drives me pretty much crazy. No way I could keep it up for a month. Also the end result would suck. Although I should say that if I could manage to keep up a natural writing roll for a whole month I'd have WAY more than 50K words. When I'm going, I turn out around 5k words a day. But honestly I'd never keep it up for more than a couple of days. A week, tops. Though I suppose that a week, at 5k a day, would be long enough to get most of it done. That's 35k right there... *chuckles* But eh. That would assume that I have an idea good enough to grab my enthusiasm, and enough material to just keep running without having to stop and think about what happens next for that long, and nothing much else on my plate so I'd have time to write without stressing about work. Not happening.

I really don't like form letters.

I know sometimes they're the only practical option, but most of the time using a form letter with me pretty much guarantees you're not going to get the desired result! I'm stubborn like that. Also, most of the time I've gotten form letters, they've been from idiots anyhow. Except the time I got one back from writing my congressman. I don't think I can call him an idiot, though he's a politician, so a little suspect. But most of them aren't stupid!

(This was prompted by my recieving a request to includ a link to a fabric resource on my page. I very strongly suspect it's a form letter, given that said fabric resource specializes in brocade, and doesn't sell a single fur fabric, nor vinyl, nor scale print, nor anything else that's useful for fursuits. Well, except they have that cheap "velvet" stuff, which I do use on occasion, but you can get that stuff literally everywhere. Their letter makes no reference whatsoever to fursuits, mascots, or furries, and doesn't give me any reason to want to link to them other than "We have fabric! You link to fabric! Link to us!" DENIED! I link to fur fabric, and to one source of pleather etc. You fail.)