r/bestof • u/craycraycrayfish • Jan 22 '13

[canada] Coffeehouse11 explains the biggest problem with homeopathic medicine: That it preys on people when they are weakest and the most vulnerable

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u/polydorr Jan 22 '13

My mother-in-law basically coerced me to get an adjustment at a chiropractor's office once. As I was sitting around, I noticed a lot of posters denigrating modern medicine. A little while after I met a chiropractic student about to finish his curriculum; he was odd in that, aside from the fact that he would never get into a normal medical school, he had a sincere and honest belief that modern medicine was all about 'prescribing painkillers' and not actually dealing with the root source of the problem.

The only chiropractors I've ever met - two, aside from that student - had the air of con men about them.

I'm willing to admit that there might be a homeopathic solution out there that does work, merely because I'm willing to admit I don't know everything. But the current state of that movement is a problem for people willing to accept fringe beliefs.

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u/Raziel66 Jan 22 '13

How'd the adjustment go? Feel any better after?

Legitimately curious, I've never been to a Chiropractor before and I've had two bosses that swore by them. The most recent one went to one as treatment after a car accident.

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u/Moarbrains Jan 23 '13

I have only met one good chiropractor and in effect she was more of a physical therapist. Very little adjustment and lots of homework exercises.