First of all, I'm not a doctor (not even like Dr. Pepper or Dr. J).

Free medical advice:

Everyone, take Vitamin C it helps your immune system, drink water. If you take too much vitamin C it is water soluable...you will piss it out.

Men (especially) donate blood. Getting rid of old blood is good because it forces your body to produce more. Second fact, blood is needed by hospitals for transfusions blah blah blah good feeling. People who annoy me: Born again Christians that won't donate blood for any medical reason...good job on being "Christ-like". I do it mostly for the cookies and orange juice.

Up here in the frozen North, I'd say take Vitamin D. Everyone is deficient from lack of sunshine.

Donating Blood is good for you. I do it for the cookies. If they stop with the Lorna Doones, I'd reconsider. Just kidding.

The video unless totally false, and there is no reason to think it is, does seem to expose him as a quack.

However, the video also has a major credibility problem, when they included chiropractic, implied also as quackery. (Not even to mention an ad hominem attack on a man whose faith based view of existence, unsupported by scientific evidence, is simply different than the faith based view, also still unsupported by scientific evidence after nearly 150 years of desperate effort, that bacteria turned into humans and elephants.)

The M.D.'s hate chiropractic, and they have been suing chiropractic for a very long time; nothing stops them, not even losing time after time after time. The courts have consistently ruled they are not charlatans and that chiropractic does serve a purpose.

I wrenched my back very badly at work in 1978. I suffered from back problems for well over 10 years. All the M.D. quacks could do for me was give me pain pills and tell me what charlatans chiropractors are and not to waste my money on them.

Finally, I ordered a video from a chiropractor and fixed it myself. Now, at 68 years of age, when I am with my son-in-law, and there is lifting to be done, I tell him to let me do it so he doesn't hurt his back, and usually he does let me do it.

I realized if I had gone to a chiropractor back in 1978, my back would have been okay in a week or two.

If you want quackery that should get people thrown in jail, contemplate M.D.'s who keep telling patients to eat a low fat; high carb diets.

Some of you seem to look at doctors as gods whose feet do not touch the ground. They are not, though they often think so. They even have a name for the syndrome; it's "God Complex."

I seldom go to a doctor formally, unless I absolutely can't figure it out. This happened 8 or 10 years ago when I had shingles, because I had no idea what they were. If I have a problem, I get on the Internet and try to figure it out for myself.

It isn't that hard in most cases. Diagnostics in medicine works on the same principles as diagnostics in high tech electronics. I know because I know a man who went through medical school, and I taught him diagnostics. Doctors want you to think they are some sort of fakirs with magical skills.

You do need to know the anatomy and drugs and other medical knowledge, just as the best doctor in the world can't be an electronic technician without learning electronics.

I belonged to a union for over 30 years, and I know union job protection tactics when I see them.

I do think it is wrong to tell other people what to do with their bodies, though I do not think it is wrong for people to share their personal experiences on diet issues, such as Amy has done.

But, as much as they want to, so far they haven't made it illegal for us to take care of ourselves be selecting a diet that suits us, such as my diet which has finally dropped my b.p. to 100/63 as of last week.

So, irlandes, your thory on lifes diversity is magic?

@irlandes: Chiroquacktic is quackery. And while we're on the subject, fuck the british chiroquacks who tried to muzzle Simon Singh when he criticized chiroquacktic.

And your 'sample of one' is also of no use to us because we cannot evaluate your claims. It's called anecdotal evidence.

Chiro manipulations can work for those who can benefit from a massage, or some proper exercise. But when they claim to cure everything from the common cold to HIV/AIDS well, they're fucking quacks.

Chiros ... doctors I know say they're quakcs; brother swears by the results. I asked my therapist once (recuperating from car accident back injury) what the difference was between what she did & chiros did - at least as far as musculoskeletal back repair - "Same thing, but they do it very quickly & violently, so there's a much greater risk of injury / paralysis" if they hit the wron way, etc..