I’m a medical worker, and I’ve been trying to read about the history of chiropractice. It’s fascinating to me how the field was started as a spiritual practice. But with the background of chiropractic care being challenged by modern science, and spinal manipulation being disproven to have any benefits, how is chiro so mainstream today? It’s covered by health insurance, even though medical researchers are regularly publishing data that disproves the benefits. DISCLAIMER: IM NOT TRYING TO HATE ON ANYTHING, I’m genuinely interested in the history and how the practice became so mainstream with a somewhat unsteady foundation.
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Beats me. People still go to psychics and homeopathists, and major health providers are doing trendy Eastern mysticism, like acupuncture. Kaiser’s mental health department is kind of an underfunded joke, but at least you can do Qi Gong to fix your imaginary chakras in your intensive-outpatient mental health program. They’re all out of ideas, and paying for talk therapy is expensive, so… I guess pray.
They’re trying to be welcoming of spiritual people, because spiritual-people money spends the same (and is often easier parted), but also the kind of things that offer you that sweet-ass placebo effect are also higher profit margins than treatments where you had to use all that expensive *science* and *technology.*
Some people make money by selling you things people need. Others make money by selling you things you don’t. Sometimes bullshit is the thing you don’t need that they’re selling.
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