Science should trump belief. But does it?

This is just a great website.  Please take advantage of the enormous work that has gone into providing you, the consumer, with facts, data and science.

There is a lot of “belief” in health.  And I definitely have some of my own. I believe that if I eat hot and very spicy food, I will not get a cold.  That is based on belief and not science.  So much of what is offered to us as health consumers is based on belief.  You need to be able to sort that out for yourself.  And this is a resource that allows you to do so.

http://www.sciencebasedhealthcare.org/

Abstract

Chiropractors claim the ability to detect ‘subluxations’, an ill-defined, unproved spinal pathology of no known clinical

significance. Patients are advised that subluxations can adversely affect organ function and general health even if the patient

is asymptomatic. The removal of vertebral subluxations through chiropractic treatment is posited to restore ‘neural integrity’,

facilitating the body’s self-healing ability. Despite the deficiencies of these concepts, the 50 state chiropractic practice acts

essentially define chiropractic as the detection and correction of subluxations and assume their significance to human health,

allowing a broad scope of practice. Because the chiropractic profession seems unwilling to abandon these discredited

concepts, reform of the state chiropractic practice acts to eliminate subluxation-based chiropractic practice may be the only

viable solution to the perpetration of unscientific and unproved healthcare practices.