tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post110606831241451275..comments2024-03-17T05:36:26.059-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: A School of Chiropractic for Florida State?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1106620201254267752005-01-24T21:30:00.000-05:002005-01-24T21:30:00.000-05:00This is still Revere posting. I couldn't sign in a...This is still Revere posting. I couldn't sign in any longer with that user name.<br /><br />To continue this conversation, if only briefly. I'm not sure the phrase pseudoscience <I>has</I> any utility because of a well-known (unsolved) problem in the philosophy of science called the demarcation problem, that is, demarcating the boundaries of science. Practically no philosopher pays any attentionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1106600415586885072005-01-24T16:00:00.000-05:002005-01-24T16:00:00.000-05:00If the word "pseudoscience" is to be useful at all...If the word "pseudoscience" is to be useful at all, it applies to chiropractic. Time precludes a comprehensive discussion, but chiropractic is chock full of the typical features of pseudoscience. It's based on an epiphany of a single, forceful founder, Daniel David Palmer, who claimed to have "restored the hearing of a deaf janitor by 'adjusting' a bump on his spine. Soon afterward, he concluded Kimball Atwood, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16730600565983594548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1106409114884946652005-01-22T10:51:00.000-05:002005-01-22T10:51:00.000-05:00InformaticsMD will get no argument from me. But wh...InformaticsMD will get no argument from me. But what is the underlying prnciple here? What if you believe that talking to god can help you team win? Or that scoring a touchdown was god's will? Should there e no Schools of Divinity supported by taxpayers? (I would be inclined to say "Yes" but we don't see a major movement in that regard). <br /><br />More importantly, the FSU controversey is basedReverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07723038818835368803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1106192059268680372005-01-19T22:34:00.000-05:002005-01-19T22:34:00.000-05:00I have followed (casually) the brouhaha and high d...I have followed (casually) the brouhaha and high dudgeon over the FSU Chiropractry debate. I am a physician, have never seen a chiropracter and don't intend to. In fact I think their line is hucksterism. That's by way of disclaimer and necessary preamble, because this whole argument has too many extraneous elements mixed in with it (among them guild-like overtones).<br /><br />However, the claimsReverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07723038818835368803noreply@blogger.com