Re: chiropractor as "doctor" -- a good analogy

To: chirosci-list
Subject: Re: chiropractor as “doctor” — a good analogy (was Re: Poor analogy)
Date: June 6, 2000

Dr. R. G. DC: You need to hang out with a better class of people, John. Most of my DC colleagues are intelligent, caring and hard working fellows.

While I would never (and did NOT) criticize someone for “caring" and "working hard," these attributes alone (or together) have nothing to do with the intellectual and academic competence about which I wrote -- nor the implications of having a friendly and hard working, but imbecilic chiropractor as your doctor.

Of course, I've known several chiropractors who are _extremely_ bright. A few of them are subscribers to this list, for example. But to respond to my post as though it is the critically thinking "cream of the crop" who are the ones matriculating to and graduating from chiropractic trade schools expresses a stunning (but predictable) level of defense and denial that ITSELF is in danger of simply being a "stupid" reply to the question. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time that a DC got so bollixed-up in their chiropractism that they would offer the argument of your typical chiropractic meatball who replies only, "No, I'm not" when they believe someone has just called them an idiot.

Assurances from chiropractors that "It's getting better” mean little, I'm afraid. Some favorable chemical reactions will never effectively "go to completion" no matter how long we allow them to "percolate." The chiropractic equation is one of them, IMO, in large part because the intellectual "reactants" and caliber of your lumpen DC are not sufficient (despite any exceptions), to even recognize the issues that sit squarely in front of them.

SEE ALSO: chiropractic chickens, finding your way out of a chiropractic "bag"

Dr. R. G. DC: No where near the shiftless class of DC you described.

Where did I say anything about "shiftless DCs?" They exist, too, and we can talk about them if you like. I'm talking about chiropractors believing their own advertising, frequently because they simply don't know or don't have the capacity to "know better."

SEE ALSO: critical reading skills

TEO.