Whatever. You obviously didn't read my post and are totally close minded. You really should LEARN what the best chiropractors do and it's not adjustments.
What for? Do I need to learn about homeopathy to know that it is complete BS? (thanks to the guy who PM'ed me to remind me!)
There is such a thing called the "God of the holes" argument. As science discovers more and more, proponents of mystic beliefs use the argument that science does not know everything and then start retreating into smaller and smaller holes. You have already tried this argument on me a couple of times in our brief exchange. Here are a few examples:
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Do you thing that we know everything about our the human body?" - a classic example of the "God of the holes" argument. Of course we don't, but that does not mean that a quack profession built on incorrect and unscientific assumptions is true.
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Plus you can't get away from the fact that you wonderful doctors have failed miserably when it comes to back issues! FAILED.". I should point out that failure of one method does not imply the correctness of the other. Yes, doctors aren't very good at treating back pain. But that does not legitimize the practice of chiropractors.
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And if you think that an MRI --esp. done in a horizontal position tells you squat about a spine -- then you're hallucinating". Another "God of the holes" argument. Just because we do not currently have an imaging modality which allows us to perform imaging whilst the body is in motion, or even vertical, does not mean that chiropractic is correct. Indeed, one might even question how they built the basis of their practice without any imaging to guide them? Or indeed, that their so-called "science" is only being retrospectively discovered? Sounds a lot like religion to me - the conclusions come first, and then there is a desperate struggle to find "evidence" to support their beliefs.
I forgot to answer a couple of your points:
First of all, there's lots of complementary medicine practiced at Medical centers; at Columbia, there is a whole separate department.
Yes, this is true. There is also a "CAM course" (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) run in the University of Sydney by a former AMA president, Kerryn Phelps. I am personally aghast at this, and so are a large number of my colleagues. We should not be rubbing shoulders and lending legitimacy to people who argue against vaccinations, who do not believe that bacteria cause infections, or that HIV causes AIDS, who think that crystals in water cure disease, or people who advise against taking chemotherapy, or anticonvulsants, or psychiatric treatments. These quacks are similar to that practitioner in the OP - they take money, offer false hope, and cost lives. We should be condemning them in the strongest possible terms.
Then again, what do you do when someone presents with a terminal diagnosis and standard therapy is basically useless (take a GBIV or pancreatic cancer for instance?).
I am not sure what GBIV is? Do you mean GBS? GBM?
As for pancreatic cancer - you are right, standard therapy is useless. My uncle, right now, is dying from pancreatic cancer. What do you do? Well, you have no treatment to give. Nobody has any treatment to give. You do what you are supposed to - offer empathy, support, and kindness.
