Dear NicoleC,

"Scientific proof" is primarily statistical. Nothing is absolutely safe. Find a copy of the PDR and check our the warnings and contra-indications.

Your comment on patents in inappropriate. You can't patent a surgical procedure, either. Chiropractic is not a menicine. It's a procedure. Whenever possible, pharmaceutical companies still search out native herbalists, looking for new medicines.

As for the training a chiropractor receives, compare it to that of an MD. And I was not aware that chiropractors attended medical school. I believe they attend chiropractic institutes. For three years.

On the subject of danger: A great surgeon is often referred to the cases others are afraid to touch. Hence, a number of his patients can be expected to die. But the odds are still better with a great surgeon than an ordinary one. I'm not aware that chiropractors can treat life or death ailments. Furthermore, MDs are only human. Out of any group of professionals, some are bound to be incompetent. That's life.

On the matter of chiropractic for the very young, all I care to say is that we read different magazines.

In closing, as an ex-postal employee, I saw a tremendous number of publications offering to show chiropractors how to make more money. There are damn few about how to be better healers.

One last word about science: Science is a process, a procedure, a way of investigating things. It's not a destination. It's only a way to reach the destination.


          If you can't predict with it, it's not science.
                         JBS Haldane