Sysiphus Speaks

So what did Mississippi Rep. Mark Formby and Sen. Chris McDaniel go and do? They introduced bills in the Mississippi House and Senate to create a personal belief exemption.

“People who started out with very low expectations of acupuncture – who thought it probably would not help them – were more likely to report less benefit as treatment went on.

It does reinforce my contention that the Who is the greatest band of all time. Normally I would recognize that there could be counter arguments to the conclusions in these blog entry. Not this time. Greatest. Ever. The other WHO that wanders into my field of vision? Not so much.

You might be able to ameliorate measles by optimizing nutrition, specifically vitamin A, but if you want to change your chance of catching measles from 95% to 5%, the vaccine is the way to go. But I would suggest slow medicine is not the way to go to prevent measles:

The folks in Wyoming have always seemed to me a pretty hardy bunch. But are they ready for bleeding? I'm not talking about the kind of bleeding you do when you, say, fall off your horse. I'm talking about totally gratuitous bleeding, the kind that results when an acupuncturist stabs you with a lancet. For no good reason, and intentionally.

When I say a pseudo-medicine doesn’t work, I mean is has no effect on the underlying disease pathophysiology. But that is different than having an effect, as pseudo-medicines do have an effect on illness if not disease.

Mumps is caused by invasion of the body by exopathogenic wind-heat toxin from the mouth and nose. This pathogen mixing with phlegm turns into fire to obstruct the Shaoyang and Yangming Channels, leading to lump due to accumulation of heat in the parotid region. Therefore, the principle of treatment should be to eliminate stagnated heat from the Shaoyang and Yangming Channels.

Not content with complications from one pseudo-medicine, some chiropractors are branching out into other pseudo-medicines: Lawsuit: Unlicensed acupuncturist caused lung collapse

Christian Scientists, although small in number, have had outsized success in getting statutory exemptions for faith healing. Some statutes mention Christian Science practitioners specifically. That is the case in Washington, but if House Bill 1476 becomes law, that will change.

But guess what. Deepak Chopra evidently thinks that AIDS is not due to HIV.

Instead of mapping body parts to the fingers and hands, they have mapped vitamins and minerals. As an example, folic acid and vitamin E levels are measured on the pinky, while sodium and potassium are measured on the right and left cheeks respectively.

I guess we are saying good-bye to dr24hours, who announced in Scientific Arrogance Revisited that is not going to renew his membership because he is routinely disappointed by the condescension I read in their posts.

Here it is, January 26th, 2015, and I doubt you will find a more stupid interpretation of information for the rest of the year than New tattoos found on Otzi the Iceman support prehistoric acupuncture theory.

Fresh from the legislative losses in 2014, naturopaths are busy filing new licensing bills. Perhaps in search of a state where their licensing hasn't been rejected over and over, they somehow persuaded Rep. Rita Martinson to introduce a whopper of a bill in Mississippi. (House Bill 725) Best I can tell, no naturopathic licensing bill has ever been introduced in the Mississippi legislature.

Now the same over-hyped concept has reached the Washington Post: ‘Text neck’ is becoming an ‘epidemic’ and could wreck your spine based on an as of yet not available study whose abstract says. Billions of people are using cell phone devices on the planet, essentially in poor posture. The purpose of this study is to assess the forces incrementally seen by the cervical spine as the head is tilted forward, into worsening posture. This data is also necessary for cervical spine surgeons to understand in the reconstruction of the neck.