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The words "crazy Indian idea" hit me as offensive at first. But I guess that's just the way the world perceives us and its up to us to change that.
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If chiropracty works, it would be a surprise given the history. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_history for more details, but basically it was founded by a complete crackpot and there's no reason to believe it should work. Further, many studies have found weak effects, no effects, and negative effects. When you see this kind of evidential pattern, it almost always means that the effect isn't real and we…
Off topic -- Where is the 'Edit' button on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Evidential_basis ? The article doesn't say it's locked, but I see no edit button. I was trying to replace "Opinions differ as to the efficacy of chiropractic treatment" with "Opinions differ as to the ability of chiropractic treatment to produce an effect", because I have a grudge against overly complicated language.
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You are making a huge leap from "this is an effective method of birth control" to "people will use this". See the movie Idiocracy. (actually just see the opening bit.)
Idiocracy isn't exactly based on fact. (It's an OK movie though.) For one thing, there's no evidence, that I know of, that supports the claim that only "smart" parents have smart children, or that smart parents don't have dumb children, or that dumb parents don't have smart children, and so on. Although genetics likely plays some role in "natural" intelligence, it's far from a simple hereditary relationship, and ther…
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Do these "modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards" actually buy us extra safety? Yes, but we pay a price: * Evaluations take a really long time. So it's hard to get the drugs into the hands of people. * Development is now extremely expensive. That forces just about everyone except the largest drug mega-corporations out of the market. * Drugs that would be a net benefit to the world sometimes never make it throu…
"We also have far fewer snake-oil salesmen ripping people off for cures" Yet we still have chiropractors and homeopathy.
It might not be medicine, but it's not snake-oil either.
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Off topic -- Where is the 'Edit' button on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Evidential_basis ? The article doesn't say it's locked, but I see no edit button. I was trying to replace "Opinions differ as to the efficacy of chiropractic treatment" with "Opinions differ as to the ability of chiropractic treatment to produce an effect", because I have a grudge against overly complicated language.
Why is replacing one word with 4 making it less complicated?
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> Do these "modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards" actually buy us > extra safety? They certainly buy us jobs for bureaucrats. Recently the FDA confiscated all of the birthing pools (related to the surge in popularity of water births). Apparently inflatable pools should be classified as 'medical devices.' To quote the FDA, "pregnacy is an illness and birth is a medical procedure."
Do you have a source for that quote?
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Why is replacing one word with 4 making it less complicated?
Because more people will understand the longer version than the shorter one. A wiki is not a computer program.
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Hold on - Chiropractors are in the same class as homeopathy? I thought Chiropractors (which, admittedly, I've never been to, but have heard many good things about - particularly when people need to get their back "adjusted") were in the same class as Acupuncturists - kind of easternish philosophy, but effective within their domain. Not so much focussed on increasing health, as enhancing comfort (or reducing pain) wit…
If chiropracty works, it would be a surprise given the history. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_history for more details, but basically it was founded by a complete crackpot and there's no reason to believe it should work. Further, many studies have found weak effects, no effects, and negative effects. When you see this kind of evidential pattern, it almost always means that the effect isn't real and we…
Wow. The entire premise of the article aside, for me the idea that medical treatments can be made with physics and not medicine was an incredible, incredible revelation. This man (not a doctor!) has invented a method to neutralize sperm in a way that would never have occurred to me. He uses the most basic principles of physics (magnetic charge) to neutralize sperm! Realizing that sperm is negatively charging, he simp…
magnetic charge? really? I don't think so.
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What is "proper" condom use? Honest question, as I pretty much just roll a condom on... Is there more to it?
Adding to other comments. Make sure it didn't break. You can try blowing air inside to see. If it broke use an emergency contraceptive.