ye_olde_throw

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Chiropractics lacks standardization of practice, and methods used are not experience AND science based. Medicine should be, although the practices of many spine surgeons are somewhat arguable. Orthopaedic surgeons also receive no training, whatsoever, in how to utilize exercise to protect joints. You should be asking a physical therapist. The depth of research in physical therapy is not as strong as in medicine, but they do actually investigate how movement relates to injury.

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Spine surgeons are often criticized as charging exorbitant sums of money for procedures with dubious expected outcomes. Currently, medical billing rates are based on the length of time a doctor needed to train to be certified to perform a procedure multiplied by the length of the procedure.

Why aren't expected outcomes factored into the equation? Why shouldn't an interventional stroke neurologist bill 10 times as much money per procedure as a spine surgeon doign vertebroplasty, for example? (after recent publications that "10 times" can be changes to "a million times")

Why are spine surgeons able to get away with this practice and make millions of dollars a year doing it?

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Did your parents teach New World Creationism in your home schooling? Did your parents teach Evolution and/or the Big Bang? Did you have science books with pictures of Jesus riding on dinosaurs in them?

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age-appropriate Jesus-free textbooks

I love this line. Thanks for the reply, and very interesting.

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AFAICT there are very few home school/religious texts on science that do not blatantly bear false witness. In my neck of the woods homeschooling is prevalent and is almost always evangelical/baptist and New World Creationist. There is even a private school that teaches the sciences similarly. At a certain point you wonder if the parents are not teaching their children it is perfectly alright to lie and make crap up if you believe you are serving a higher goal.

And if Jesus had three apples and Paul had four I am pretty sure Paul would soon have seven and Jesus none.