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Chiropractor - Scam or Legit? (pg. 9)
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| Sushipunk |
Outstanding amount of emoticons there, Paul.
Definitely stoned. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Honestly, if "alternative medicine" makes people happy, and they get some benefit from the placebo, why not just leave them alone? |
knock yourself out: http://whatstheharm.net/
idiocy like bogus medical treatments are a huge business and before you know it people stop vaccinating their kids because they were "left alone" by tree huggers like you. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Outstanding amount of emoticons there, Paul.
Definitely stoned. |
you shouldn't let your recent successes go to your head stu! not yet son, not yet. had to complete my christmas shopping first. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
you shouldn't let your recent successes go to your head stu! not yet son, not yet. had to complete my christmas shopping first. |
Damn it! :mad: |
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
knock yourself out: http://whatstheharm.net/
idiocy like bogus medical treatments are a huge business and before you know it people stop vaccinating their kids because they were "left alone" by tree huggers like you. |
Along with being a "tree hugger", I am also a fan of natural selection. :) |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Honestly, if "alternative medicine" makes people happy, and they get some benefit from the placebo, why not just leave them alone? |
Bad thinking is contagious. The lack of respect for evidence that leads people to believe in rather benign, mildly goofy stuff is also what leads others to believe in not-so-benign stuff.
Compare, for example, people who believe in prayer as an addition to ordinary medicine and people who believe in prayer as a complete substitute for ordinary medicine. The two are not all that far apart. |
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| Theresa |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Bad thinking is contagious. The lack of respect for evidence that leads people to believe in rather benign, mildly goofy stuff is also what leads others to believe in not-so-benign stuff.
Compare, for example, people who believe in prayer as an addition to ordinary medicine and people who believe in prayer as a complete substitute for ordinary medicine. The two are not all that far apart. |
See my previous post. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Along with being a "tree hugger", I am also a fan of natural selection. :) |
the ability to make reasonable choices is made that much harder when there is a wealth of bad information available. if people and stupid ideas remain unchallenged, they gain a foothold in the relevant zeitgeist and cause harm to us all. just look at what the "harmless" alternative thinkers have done to herd immunity; the ultimate result of which is the deaths of 3rd parties (normally newborn children). |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
maybe on your 20th TA anniversary you may feel like sharing with us :p |
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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
just look at what the "harmless" alternative thinkers have done to herd immunity; the ultimate result of which is the deaths of 3rd parties (normally newborn children). |
Chiropractors where one of the most vehement anti-immunisation advocates around because of some hocus about it affecting the bodies something or other.
That's tantamount to criminal negligence for a medical practitioner and unfortunately some of it spun out into the mainstream community which practices it. Might be acceptable for some people to believe in natural selection but they're the same kind of cretin who never had to deal with or see the consequences of it affecting kids. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
No |
Don't be like that, Rainbow! :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Chiropractors where one of the most vehement anti-immunisation advocates around because of some hocus about it affecting the bodies something or other.
That's tantamount to criminal negligence for a medical practitioner and unfortunately some of it spun out into the mainstream community which practices it. Might be acceptable for some people to believe in natural selection but they're the same kind of cretin who never had to deal with or see the consequences of it affecting kids. |
why am i not surprised? once people get used to the taste of bull, they'll eat any from the bull. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
the ability to make reasonable choices is made that much harder when there is a wealth of bad information available. if people and stupid ideas remain unchallenged, they gain a foothold in the relevant zeitgeist and cause harm to us all. just look at what the "harmless" alternative thinkers have done to herd immunity; the ultimate result of which is the deaths of 3rd parties (normally newborn children). |
Exactly.
The problem with the natural selection argument is that it's based on an oversimplified and outdated biological model.
Because no vaccine offers perfect protection, a person who doesn't vaccinate increases the risk of illness for every single person they will come into contact with their entire life. The population as a whole is more vulnerable, not just the idiot who made the decision not to vaccinate and their offspring.
Of course, we could get the best of both worlds by simply executing people who decline to vaccine. That would yield both the narrow benefits of eliminating that stupidity from the gene pool and the broader benefit of ensuring that they don't stick around to spread disease. Something like that is too sensible to ever be put into practice, unfortunately. |
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