{"id":1455,"date":"2007-10-16T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2007-10-16T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T06:23:41","slug":"my-problem-with-chiropractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"My problem with chiropractors."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the Trainer was going on and on about the chiropractor who was teaching some exercise class this weekend and I had to tell him just how little I thought of a group of people that eschewed the scientific method. Basically, I think they&#8217;re a bunch of loons who make things up. I thought about it for a while, wondering why I was so against them and I realized a couple of things. I don&#8217;t like people who believe in a lie, and this includes certain core beliefs that many people share that I do not.<\/p>\n<p>I also don&#8217;t trust my medical care to people who did so much worse in school than I did. I was a big geek and I worked pretty hard for my grades. Well, at least I worked for my grades. The problem is, some of the naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, etc, are those guys who were stoned through my chemistry classes. I&#8217;m sure there are those in those fields who did well in school, but I&#8217;ve found them to be the exception. Their disdain for Western medicine also translated to a disdain for Western learning. It&#8217;s a matter of trust, I suppose, and I really don&#8217;t trust someone to look at my bloodwork if they didn&#8217;t do well in Biochem.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, I can chalk this up to another one of my issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the Trainer was going on and on about the chiropractor who was teaching some exercise class this weekend and I had to tell him just how little I thought of a group of people that eschewed the scientific method. Basically, I think they&#8217;re a bunch of loons who make things up. I thought about it for a while, wondering why I was so against them and I realized a couple of things. I don&#8217;t like people who believe in a lie, and this includes certain core beliefs that many people share that I do not. I also don&#8217;t trust my medical care to people who did so much worse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My problem with chiropractors.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}