beyelzu

gudur,

ignoring my logic with a quote from Wilde, I am shocked.

Plus pz was just offering you medical alternatives. You should be more open to modern medicine and your friends' concern for your health. Elephantitis and brass balls can be serioius conditions that need treatment.

Gurdur

"Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority."
--- Doctor Who

That man will stop at nothing to eliminate competition.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
--Moliere (1622-1672)

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
--Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.
--Oscar Wilde

Gregg

First, I'm well aware that probably more than 95% of what goes under the names of chiropractic & Feng Shui is indeed the aforementioned fecal matter of a male bovine.

However, the one part of chiropractic that medical doctors regard as possibly having some validity--spinal manipulation therapy--does involve more than massage and may be an effective treatment for lower back pain. True, you probably don't really need an entire profession dedicated to SMT. However, this report linked to from www.chirobase.org, a skeptical Web site, suggests that one reason chiropractic is thriving is that physicians are typically "not well-trained in the management of common musculoskeletal complaints" and that "The specialists who have been adequately trained in musculoskeletal medicine--neurologists, orthopedists, physiatrists, and rheumatologists--are relatively scarce and inaccessible, can be expensive, focus on cases more exotic than those of ordinary aches, and tend to treat musculoskeletal problems aggressively." The report also states that: On the matter of Feng Shui, you're right, it doesn't confer any more benefits than good interior design does. However, a poster in the "Bullshit!" newsgroup noted that:Gregg

lunachick

GRRRRRRRR!!!!

But, as an aside, I saw a programme on the raising of sterilised maggots for medical purposes. They are exceptional at cleaning up dead and diseased/infected flesh while leaving the healthy flesh as is. http://virtual-u.sfu.ca/mediapr/Rele...0/Maggots.html

Gurdur

Thanks, Lunachick, you alerted me to a mistake I'ld made in a previous post by leaving out a clause.

Yep, they discovered yet again in the American Civil war that maggots deliberately left in deep or messy wounds dramatically reduce the chances of gangrene and gas gangrene; there have been cases throughout history of deliberately exposing wounds to flies, so that the flies could lay eggs which hatched maggots, in order to save the patient from gangrene and other infections.

Godless Dave

Find a proxy server in the US.

Jackalope

The only thing of interest in snail slime is allantoin. It's a major component of comfrey as well, so why bother with the snails? Hell, you can buy the stuff in purified form and mix it into your favorite facial cream (which costs about 1/4 of what you'd pay if you bought it pre-mixed). So using the snails really is just a gimick, even if it may have some small benefit from the allantoin.

dangin

Feng shui is fake? I just got my goddamned coffe table balanced on my refrigerator for christ's sake.

Guess I'll have to go to the bone cracker for an allignment to cure my pneumonia.

Rusting Car Bumper

I think both of these are good topics for their show..

Why?

They are both.... BULLSHIT!!

DC

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