People wonder why I consider chriopractic to be woo?

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49. Whether or not some aspects of chiropractic...

...can be effective under particular circumstances, and whether or not the overall practice and the theory behind chiropractic are "woo", are two separate issues.

Medieval doctors did manage on occasion to treat disease and reduce pain with some limited success, but what success they had was totally in spite of, not because of "humorism", i.e., trying to treat disease as a matter of creating balance among the "four humors": blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

Humorism was, and still is, woo.

Chiropractors succeed to the extent that they do because the manipulations they perform can be useful and effective, but they are useful and effective mostly in spite of, not because of, the chiropractic theory behind those manipulations. That's why, overall, chiropractic is woo.