Saw this on my way to a real doctor today:
Calling itself an alternative to medicine is kind of admitting it doesn’t work, right? It’s not calling itself “alternative medicine”, which would at least be a kind of medicine. But this is saying it’s simply not medicine at all! I guess credit for honesty is deserved.
Not really. Not unless you define medicine as ‘all the things that work to make you healthy.’
Some people probably believe ‘medicine doesn’t work.’ Others will think that it works sometimes, but is only one of different ways to reach the same objective.
The second definition I get when I google “medicine definition” is:
So, by that definition “Alternatives to Medicine Inc.” is a perfectly reasonable name implying that you won’t be getting anything to swallow or insert into your body by other means.
Quackery is also an alternative to medicine.
I saw a sign for a place calling itself “Integrity Chiropractic”.
It’s like he’s saying “All those other chiros are sleazeballs”.
Seems that are at least a few other businesses with the same or similar names as the one in the OP. Here’s one offering “thyroid ozone therapy” and ultraviolet light treatments to “cleanse” your body - which sound alternative enough, if by alternative you mean “laughable quackery”.
I find the honesty refreshing actually.
I never understood how “manipulating” your joints is supposed to make them better unless you have scoliosis I think it would just just make them worse. However has anyone with scoliosis tried chiropractic treatment? I am curious if it worked for that.
I first read that as Alternatives to “Medicine INC”, as in an alternative to the medical-industrial complex/Big Pharma.
You need to see the whole video. It’s about ten minutes long, but it’s worth it.
If you think that’s bad, take a look at the advertisement I saw on my shopping cart a year ago. “Unlimited visits” for a household for $100 a month and there’s a picture of the chiropractor “adjusting” a toddler. :mad:
For real honesty, there should be a clinic called “Woo Inc.”*
There’s a business known as “Chef Woo Inc.” in Irvine CA, but they do Chinese food, not ozone therapy.
*House Of Woo" would be neat too.
I saw him perform this in Washington DC at the Reason Rally a few years back.
