# Glen Beck has had chiropractic brain rehab.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-has-had-chiropractic-brain-rehab/704394 "2014-11-12T00:46:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-has-had-chiropractic-brain-rehab/704394/41 "2014-11-13T20:31:19Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Yea, it certainly sounds like woo, but IANAD.
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> On the other hand, if a crazy person goes to other crazy people to get crazy treatments for his craziness, maybe all the craziness cancels each other out and it ends up working.

## What is it about the ultra-right-wing culture in the USA that eschews science (rooted in the search for God’s Laws of the universe\*) and embraces alternative medicine’s mysticism and magic (rooted in pagan practices)?#

The lack of sleep, overworked adrenal gland, etc. sounds like hyperadrenocorticism or Cushings syndrome. Then again, IANAD, I just learned a tiny bit about it when the veterinarian suggested my wife’s dog might have it. It’s supposedly treatable with western medicine.

–G!

\*I suggested this to a history professor eons ago. She said I could be right, but it was a really super-abstract connection that would be hard to solidify with research.

$Kind of the converse of the argument above. I tossed it at a JW Naturopathy student who responded by turning pale and walking away looking perplexed. I have no idea if it’s true, but it was an argument (cheap shot) that scored. 🆒

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-has-had-chiropractic-brain-rehab/704394/42 "2014-11-13T21:19:57Z")

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> [@Grestarian](#):
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> What is it about the ultra-right-wing culture in the USA that eschews science (rooted in the search for God’s Laws of the universe\*) and embraces alternative medicine’s mysticism and magic (rooted in pagan practices)?

There’s plenty of belief in alternative medicine and criticism of actual medicine on the left as well, and I say that as a liberal Democrat.

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-has-had-chiropractic-brain-rehab/704394/43 "2014-11-13T21:23:02Z")

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> [@davidm](#):
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> There’s plenty of belief in alternative medicine and criticism of actual medicine on the left as well, and I say that as a liberal Democrat.

If anything I think of it as a lefty tree hugging hippie thing.

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glen-beck-has-had-chiropractic-brain-rehab/704394/44 "2014-11-13T21:52:06Z")

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I don’t attribute it to any particular political leaning.

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