{"id":26610,"date":"2009-06-10T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/10\/the-end-of-chiropractory\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T19:05:15","slug":"the-end-of-chiropractory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/the-end-of-chiropractory\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of chiropractory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My understanding is that most people who go to chiropractors get either nothing, somewhat injured, severely injured, or even (now and then) chiropracted to death.  Of course, the same could be said of doctors or health care systems in general:  Many people do not walk out of the hospital alive.  But, it is also my understanding that Chiropractory does not really offer anything that is medically beneficial and based on any kind of real research.  But it continues anyway.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened lately in Britian is that the lack of substantiation behind the claims of chiropractors has become a legal issue.  This is causing <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/06\/chiropractors_scrambling_to_co.php\">British chiropractors to scramble, and apparently, they are taking down their web sites<\/a> in a big hurry so that they can&#8217;t be caught making claims that are medically important to people but that have no basis.<\/p>\n<p>I have one word for the British Chiropractors:  Google Archive.  Well, OK, two words, but who&#8217;s counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My understanding is that most people who go to chiropractors get either nothing, somewhat injured, severely injured, or even (now and then) chiropracted to death. Of course, the same could be said of doctors or health care systems in general: Many people do not walk out of the hospital alive. But, it is also my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/the-end-of-chiropractory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The end of chiropractory<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Vc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}