DBWI: Make chiropractic widely accepted

Chiropractic healing was a pseudoscience along the lines of phrenology or electric medicine that was briefly popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was founded in Iowa in 1895 on the belief that misalignment of the spine and joints was the cause and cure for all diseases and had a lot of quasi-metaphysical ideas attached. The whole practice eventually fell out of favor by the WWI when state medical boards began clamping down on practitioners and instituted heavy fines for practicing medicine without a license.

So with an 1895 POD how could you make a pseudoscience like chiropractic healing popular or at the very least widespread in the US?
 
@Escape Zeppelin: Sadly, chiropractic is widely accepted and widespread in the USA. As an MD, let me just say I have seen some horrendous outcomes from chiropractic care. Beyond individual cases there is the selling of chiropractic claiming spinal manipulation improves nerve flow improving your "immune systemic" - unsurprisingly this claim was a big seller in the wake of HIV's arrival on the scene. It is not considered "out of bounds" for chiropractors to recommend "prophylactic adjustment" for very young children. Chiropractic claims that with manipulation ~95% of children with idiopathic scoliosis (curvature of the spine) never need bracing or surgery. In fact, 95% of children who have this sort of scoliosis never need any bracing or surgery with their only treatment being a series of follow up visits, and perhaps some Xrays (way less than they get with chiropractic treatment).

I'm sure this post will generate flames about how, as an MD I am beholden to big pharma, or unwilling to see the "results" of chiropractic (research in this discipline has a rather low standard of statistical analysis and review). No doubt other followers of alternative medicine like crystals, homeopathy, etc will chime in to castigate the "medical establishment" which in brutal self interest (read $$) suppresses other methods.

"Alternative" medical theories and treatments have had a long history in the USA, and while their popularity waxes and wanes no amount of science will sway the true believers.
 
Come on- the American people are the worlds premier rationalists! That's about as likely as the acceptance of osteopathy! In some meme-infested hellhole like Sweden, sure, but not the US.

OoC: I suspect that you guys have been trolled...
 
I know what a DBWI is...my point was that chiropractic is widespread and popular in the USA OTL. Legal in every state, mandated in most places that insurance pays for it. Now you could have proposed that chiropractic becomes the "mainstream" medical practice and allopathic (standard) medicine is marginalized. How that would happen with a POD of 1895 I have no idea...
 
I know what a DBWI is...my point was that chiropractic is widespread and popular in the USA OTL. Legal in every state, mandated in most places that insurance pays for it. Now you could have proposed that chiropractic becomes the "mainstream" medical practice and allopathic (standard) medicine is marginalized. How that would happen with a POD of 1895 I have no idea...
That's why your response doesn't make sense. Unfortunately, it is widely used and popular in some countries OTL. The point of it being a DBWI is that we are imagining how it could become popular in a world where fortunately people dont succumb to such hokum.
 
I know what a DBWI is...

OoC: No, you clearly don't. The point of a DBWI if to ask what if something happened that actually happened, as if it hadn't? For example: "Hey, guys, what if Japan had performed a sneak attack on Oahu on December 7th, 1941?" The implication is that we pretend to be people from an alternate timeline where something else happened. Traditionally, this is done tongue-in-cheek to present absurd outcomes other than the historical one, or to sort of collectively define the alternate timeline. A good response to my example might be "Well, that's ridiculous. Why would they do that when their landings in San Diego were so effective?" Or perhaps "OMG, have you seen the order of battle that the Americans had on Oahu? They were highly suspicious of an attack and had built all of those distributed airplane revetments! They would have wiped Japan from the sky, sunk the entire fleet, then steamed for Tokyo Bay! Japan was much better off starting the war in the Philippines!" Then other people keep posting, but one of the rules is that you have to keep continuity with earlier posts. For instance, if I had mentioned the Japanese initiated the war with the U.S. with a sneak attack on the Philippines you could not later change that to a sneak attack on Panama.

This is often done to mock the heavy determinist streak that this board can display at times.

Get it?

OTOH if you do understand this and just wanted to pipe up and post your rant:

1) I agree with you, but...

2) You should have specified that you were out of character (OoC).

So, your faux pas, there.
 
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I apologize...was multitasking and misread things, and did not intend to rant..please accept my apologies
 
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