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difficult to distinguish from psychic energy in
general.”
Some chiropractors themselves warn about this New Age
infiltration. Writing for the Institute for Chiropractic
Ethics Phillip Lawrence wrote:
“In my 20 years of practice I have painfully observed
my beloved profession heading steadily toward
eastern mysticism, new age, and occult philosophies
and practices. I feel saddened and angered that our
grand and distinguished science of healing is rapidly
becoming bastardized with these quasi-science
modalities. When patients tell me they’ve been to
other chiropractors that have read their auras, told
them to sit under pyramids, advised them to have
psychic readings, or have said that their problems
are the result of bad karma, I feel both disgust and
anger at the sheer buffoonery of such advice. ...
Crystals! Acupuncture! Yoga! Damp spleens!
Visualization techniques! What’s next? A séance
communicating with D.D. Palmer? The reason the
medical profession has such esteem in patients’
minds is that at least they draw the line somewhere.
Where is our line?” (http://www.chiroethics.com/
archives/what_is_next.html).
There is no evidence for the theory of subluxations, and
chiropractic diagnosis and remedy is infamously
subjective.
“One committee against health fraud sent a healthy
four-year-old girl to five different chiropractors for a
physical checkup. One claimed the child’s shoulder
blades were ‘out of place’ and that she had ‘pinched
nerves to her stomach and gallbladder.’ Another said
that the child’s pelvis was ‘twisted.’ A third said that
one hip was ‘elevated’ above the other and that
spinal misalignments might cause her headaches,
digestive problems, nervousness, and other
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