And people wonder why I am dead-set against Chiropractic?

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25. Here's another good reason

Chiropractic has an army of hyper-passionate supporters here on DU, who will tolerate nothing bad said about the profession. The two most consistent defenses that I've seen can be paraphrased as follows:

1. "A chiropractor helped my back/neck/sciatica when MDs wanted to cut me open or give me drugs."

2. "Oh yeah? You're telling me there's no such thing as a dishonest MD?"

Objection #1 fails because it's anecdotal with minimal empirical support nor any way to control for the vast range of factors affecting individual cases.

Objection #2 fails because no one attacks a fraudulent MD more aggressively than other MDs, because they recognize that the fraud tarnishes their profession and exposes people to serious risk of harm.

But fans of pseudoscience almost never criticize other practitioners of pseudoscience, and on the very rare occasion that they do so, they do it from a position of science.