Despite your ignorance and your refusal to acknowledge what is manifestly obvious to the millions of people who annually gain benefit from the treatments that you revile, the biggest growth in healthcare is in non-medical therapies. Over the past 30 years I have seen attitudes change and the knowledge base expand. Except one sub group, the all-knowing skeptics.
Even the "orthodox" medical profession is incorporating natural therapies. Calling it "complimentary" or "integrative" medicine. Claiming they invented it, of course...remember acupuncture? 30 years ago it was rubbish, nonsense folk medicine. Then the medical profession "discovered" acupuncture and PRESTO! It works. Remember vitamin C? Folic acid? vitamin D? Herbs? Naturopaths have been preventing cancer and improving immune systems and treating depression for yonks. Way back then you skeptics said our treatments didn't work. Now, hey stick to your guns. Skeptics take the negative and stick to it, regardless.
" I don't let the evidence influence my opinion, I'm a skeptic. I know better than everybody else"
In our practice we treat many educated and intelligent people including medical doctors, accountants, surgeons, scientists, teachers, engineers, mathematicians, dentists, lawyers, supreme court judges, police officers...
More importantly, we treat generations of the same family, we care for people of all ages and all income groups...pensioners who are willing to pay for treatment that works rather than gobble down free medications that don't, parents of children with medically mis-dignosed "growing pains", doctors who refer their patients for manipulative treatment...the list is endless.
Sceptics say that all of these people are fools.
We treat lots of families ("We" referring to the non-medical health care profession) because they have grown up with natural treatment. We treat mothers who bring their babies for the drug free treatment of colic, reflux, otitis media (glue ear), developmental and temperament problems.
We have sporting coaches who advise their athletes to avoid surgery by coming to our practice. And the athletes that we treat, are they all being foolish to trust our treatment? Do you know more about the treatment of sporting injuries than we do? Do you know more than the athletes?
I don't think skeptics know anything...I think they have massive egos and uninformed opinions that are re-enforced by other skeptical egomaniacs who believe in themselves more than anything else. More than education, experience or evidence. Skeptics are masters of self-importance.
People who are delighted by their results continue to refer their family and friends for treatment. That must really annoy skeptics.
So, skeptic, we don't do too bad for an "unscientific practice" or "treatment of dubious value" as we are referred to by the faceless sceptics society, gormless and gutless, the 2009 equivalent of the "sun revolves the around the flat earth--I am right everybody else is wrong-this is my opinion so there" lunatic fringe.
How about the society called "Sceptics"...? Could you imagine their meeting agenda? "OK guys, what can we dismiss today...must be something we know absolutely nothing about...any suggestions?
So, skeptic, if every one of our patients are delusional, if every treatment is bogus, if every health improvement is imagined...then you are right and everyone else is wrong.
The reality is that knowledge is only available to those willing to "sit down, shut up and listen".
So to all skeptics, I dare you to spend a day in my practice.
Note from PRP: This offer was first posted in 2001. Despite a few emails containing unreprintable and anatomically impossible suggestions, not one skeptic has taken my offer. C'mon you septics...have some guts. Visit my practice and face the facts. Chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture and naturopathy are powerful and effective philosophies with proven, verifiable results...millions of case histories.
And you just don't have the depth of intellect to understand.
