(10-10-2021, 01:16 AM)LP link Wrote:[member=64]PaulP[/member]‍ looks like you're going all Lotus Eater?

Quote:At a time when the surgeon general says misinformation has become an urgent threat to public health, an investigation by The Associated Press found a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalising on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines.

They have touted their supplements as alternatives to vaccines, written doctor’s notes to allow patients to get out of mask and immunisation mandates, donated large sums of money to anti-vaccine organisations and sold anti-vaccine ads on Facebook and Instagram, the AP discovered. One chiropractor gave thousands of dollars to a Super PAC that hosted an anti-vaccine, pro-Donald Trump rally near the US Capitol on January 6.
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Public health advocates are alarmed by the number of chiropractors who have hitched themselves to the anti-vaccine movement and used their public prominence and sheen of medical expertise to undermine the nation’s response to a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 700,000 Americans.

Australia has not been immune from the trend either, with one Melbourne chiropractor suspended for spouting anti-vax claims.
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But the pandemic gave a new platform to chiropractors who had been stirring up anti-vaccine misinformation long before COVID-19 arrived, driven by interpretations of 19th century chiropractic beliefs that medicine interferes with the body’s natural flow of energy.

Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by D.D. Palmer, a “magnetic healer” who argued that most disease was a result of misaligned vertebrae. Its early leaders rejected the use of surgery and drugs, as well as the idea that germs cause disease. Instead, they believed the body has an innate intelligence, and the power to heal itself if it is functioning properly, and that chiropractic care can help it do that.

This led many to reject vaccines – even though vaccines are not within their scope of practice. Instead, they treat conditions through spine and musculoskeletal adjustments, as well as exercise and nutritional counselling. A 2015 Gallup survey found an estimated 33.5 million adults had seen a chiropractor in the previous 12 months.

Even before the pandemic, many chiropractors became active in the so-called “health freedom” movement, advocating in state legislatures from Massachusetts to South Dakota to allow more people to skip vaccinations.
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AP could find no national numbers of vaccination rates among chiropractors, but Oregon tracks vaccine uptake among all licensed health providers, and the numbers show chiropractors and their assistants are by far the least likely to be vaccinated – and far less than the general public.

(10-10-2021, 12:39 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I cant find anything on the internet to this effect. At any rate, he has been to hell and back, and can barely tell one day from another. I'd be cutting him some slack on this one, assuming it's even true.

(10-10-2021, 01:30 AM)DJC link Wrote:Assange tweeted that vaccination did more harm than COVID and implied that it was a conspiracy.

(10-10-2021, 01:36 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I doubt he would even be allowed access to a computer.

(10-10-2021, 01:27 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:10,000 allowed to the Melbourne cup in 3 weeks. What a joke.

(10-10-2021, 12:01 AM)capcom link Wrote:Mike Rennie left us at 61 and Klaatu was his character name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NZXmq-E2tM

(10-10-2021, 01:56 AM)DJC link Wrote:It's on the Wikileaks feed ...