RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 17/02/2024I'll never understand how something so thoroughly debunked as chiropractors have such good propaganda to convince lay people that its a science 1518117
☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17/02/2024Combination of snake oil salesmen, bad interactions with healthcare workers, a common urge of feeling like cracking something will lead to relief, word of mouth genuine positive testimonials outweighing negative ones (on account of the paralysis) 190
kmrst @kmrst.bsky.social · 17/02/2024People who go to them usually feel better for a little while after they do so they think it's real & give word of mouth recommendations. 010
Johannes Hass @rhywden.bsky.social · 18/02/2024That’s because they’re using some things which actually work and mix in the quackery stuff. Plus, no standardization, so they can always say: „But _I_ am not doing _that_!“ 000
Zelph @zelph.bsky.social · 17/02/2024Pseudoscience has an astonishing scary way of convincing people it is a secret that is being suppressed by Them™ 0110
UGAOG @ugaog.bsky.social · 18/02/2024I think they're just bumming off the goodwill that people have for massages 000
Jumbo Jimbo😩 @notsojumbojimbo.bsky.social · 17/02/2024They give you a ton of microinjuries that heal pretty rapidly so people are convinced once they heal that they feel better than before they went in. Strong bias manipulation. 010
George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · 17/02/2024People believe any old shite though, don't they. If anything if science has debunked something that's even better, because the believers get to feel superior to the scientists 120
Hugh Jass @satanicmechanic.bsky.social · 17/02/2024It's because insurance companies force them jnto it and they're coping 020
Jack 'o' Flames VT @flamesvt.bsky.social · 17/02/2024I say this without any sarcasm, and I wish I didn't; Some people seems to think something works since some people die by it. 2180
The Estrogen-Based Menace 🦑 @sexi-squidward.bsky.social · 17/02/2024I like them for cracking my back but that's it. It's weird that people go to them for anything else. 010
andwhyisit @andwhyisit.bugsiteguardian.com · 17/02/2024I googled it, and it sounds like chiropractors in the US make stupid snake oil health benefit claims. In Australia, we see them as the people to go to when your back is out, and little more than that. 000
Frank Hightower 🐁 @frankhghtwr.bsky.social · 17/02/2024well, when we called them "masseuses" people didn't take them seriously so they pushed back 010
storczyk @storczyk.org · 17/02/2024There are no laws that protect us from charlatans and disinformation because allegedly the system will collapse if we forbid bad things 060
