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A chiropractor for President?

Post author By Orac
Post date June 28, 2008
4 Comments on A chiropractor for President?

Apparently there’s a chiropracter named Billy Sticker running for President. His platform:

MyÂ platform:

To increaseÂ your patient countÂ by 200% duringÂ my first term

To increase your incomeÂ by 200%

Pass legislation designating Chiropractic the Official Health Care of America

Reduce our dependency on pharmaceuticals (because Chiropractic would be the official health care!)

He even has his own video coverage:

Say it ain’t so! A woo-meister for President. That’d be a step down even from our current President! It’s even worse than that, though. He’s apparently a guy who sells marketing plans to other chiropractors to help them increase their profits! Indeed, his entire website is called Chiropractic Marketing University, and if there’s one thing worse than chiropractic woo it’s chiropractic business woo.

It’s a joke, right? Talk about my breathing a sigh of relief!

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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.

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