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I'd agree that reporter overgeneralizes at the end, and perhaps lazy of me to point to that summary vs. the original journal study. But that does not affect the validity of the Japanese study on vitamin D and the flu and kids.

Also, if studies show that vitamin D helps with "N. meningitis", then even if you take *only* conventional treatments, perhaps you should stay home too? :-) It is not either or in many cases.

This is a more realistic statement about that issue (notice use of the word "adjuvant" and "possibility"):
http://www.chiro.org/nutrition...
"Invasive pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, and group A streptococcal disease are more common when vitamin D levels are lowest (winter) [79-81] and all three bacteria are sensitive to AMP, [82-84] raising the possibility that pharmacological doses of vitamin D would be an effective adjuvant treatment. In fact, the dramatically increased production of AMPs by vitamin D and the broad spectrum of action of AMP make it reasonable to hypothesize that pharmacological doses of vitamin D are effective adjuvants in treating a large number of infections."

If you are one of the unlucky ones to get cancer, there is still hope through Chiropractic . Here is the
Chiropractic Cancer Foundation for Children

and research reading at Chiropractic and Cancer Here is an article about lung cancer treatment with Chiropractic Big Pharma doesn't want you to know about these DRUG FREE remedies!

Take care,
Bob

Chiropractic and Heart Disease
Chiropractic and Cancer

This is all information the Big Pharma controlled MD establishment doesn't want you to read.

What placebo effect? I've read this many times and have never seen documented evidence for it in relation to Chiropractic! Meanwhile it has cured millions of aches, pains, some diseases, deafness and colic. That's not placebo.

Don't feel bad. The individual probably just did some basic online research and found studies like this from the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research:

http://www.chiro.org/research/ABSTRACTS/Placebo_Chiropractic_Treatment.shtml

Kinda disappointed to find that your field doesn't insist on Continuing Education requirements. You might have caught this otherwise.

I'm sure your opinion is well founded in facts, but here are facts which suggest you are wrong.

There are quacks among both MDs and Chiropractors. An MD gave my son and I Hepatitis B, which nearly killed him since he got the first dose of anti-biotic from a glass syringe the doctor "sterilized" between shots. He gave the person he treated before he treated my son an anti-biotic shot to treat that person's case of Hep B. I would never had known the source of our Hep B had not his nurse been a former student of mine and called to tell me of his "practice" of using glass syringes to save money. He lost his medical license as a result. Both of my feet give constant pain while walking after two failed surgeries, by different doctors claiming they could "fix" my severe case of hammer toes. The literature is filled with examples of incompetent doctors doing damage to their patients.

I met a Chiropractor who claimed he could cure the common cold with spinal adjustments. He was suffering from a cold at the time.

My sister was in an automobile accident and had her jaw fractured in several places. She recovered from her injuries but over the next 10 years she suffered severe headaches, and her sight in one eye went from color to black and white, with tunnel vision, before becoming totally blind. She was on high doses of analgesics for years. She grew weak on the same side and eventually was confined to a wheel chair. The vision in her other eye became black and white and started to tunnel. Tons of X-Rays, MRI's and CAT scans over the years didn't show the doctors any reason for her illness, which they attributed to mental causes, but didn't hesitate to add that she probably didn't have long to live if the paralysis continued to spread.

My brother-in-law took her to a home show to get her out and put her mind on something other than her troubles. They happened to stop at a Chiropractor's booth. He briefly examined her and announced, without any prior knowledge, that she had been in an auto accident and it caused a small dislocation of one of her vertebra. Over the next several months of therapy my sister discarded the wheel chair, strength returned to her right arm and leg, and more importantly, color vision returned to her remaining good eye. Unbelievably, within a year full color vision returned to her other eye. While the vertebral displacement could account for the lateral weakness I still don't understand how it could have led to her loss of vision.

She filed a lawsuit against Kaiser HMO (Colorado) and the doctors who treated her and with a court order obtained her original X-rays following the car accident, and on many visits afterwords. They were compared with ones taken by the Chiropractor on her first visit and on her last visit. All of the X-rays showed an approximate 1/8 inch displacement of a vertebra, except the last one taken before the Chiropractor discharged her. The lawsuit was thrown out because of problems getting other doctors in Colorado to testify, and out-of-state doctors being rejected by the court, but Kaiser gave her $15,000, which supposedly was reimbursement for her visits lawyer fees. They got off light.

The next time I saw her, about 5 years after her lawsuit, she was wearing an nasal cannula connected to an Oxygen bottle. Forty years of smoking did what an accident couldn't. She got tired of living her life tethered to an Oxygen bottle and still having breathing become more difficult as the Emphysema progressed. She checked herself into a hospital, took off the nasal cannula, and specifically requested no heroic efforts to save her life. It took her three days to die of suffocation. She was one tough gal, and I miss her.

Personally, I always prefer a Chiropractor to a "Physical Therapist" for problems relating to physical trauma.

Yes. But this isn't exactly "hazardous". It may not cure you, but unlike many medicines, it won't actively kill you either.

Bollocks