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The more things change, the more they stay the same

Post author By Orac
Post date November 5, 2007
9 Comments on The more things change, the more they stay the same

This is true with respect to chiropractic, anyway. Just get a load of this ad from 1922:

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You know, tart this ad up with some color and better graphics, and it wouldn’t be out of place today making claims like this:

Fastest growing healing profession, outstripping all others. CHIROPRACTIC is today far in the lead of all other drug-less methods. In greater numbers than ever before intelligent people are seeing the light; they know that CHIROPRACTIC is practical, sane and gets results in treatment of disease. Endorsed by leading educators. Demand for Doctors of Chiropractic now greater than supply. Splendid openings in every locality.

Or:

Not a “one man” or “one idea” school. Trained faculty of experts (graduates from leading drugless healing colleges all over the country) gives you thorough,
practical instruction in chiropractic and all its allied branches. ‘”Eclectic” means “best that is embodied in all systems.” No other school gives such broad, comprehensive instruction–prepares you so thoroughly.

How little has changed in 85 years.

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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

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