Innate Life Chiropractic

Comment and Opinion

This site was Highly Commended in the 2020 Millenium Awards. The citation said:

This site was originally nominated for an Encouragement Award but as I studied Linguistics at university and have the final say over who gets what award, the judges finally agreed that the reinterpretation (reinventing?) of etymology when combined with the absurdity of chiropractic's mythical and magical "subluxation" deserved recognition beyond just encouragement. Extrapolation from nonsense to support nonsense needs rewarding.

Chiropractic "science" 1 (25/1/2020)
As the entire edifice of chiropractic was created from whole cloth it should come as no surprise that the "profession" might have a flexible opinion on what words mean.

Two of the things I've studied over the decades (centuries?) are Latin and linguistics. This is how I know that the word "subluxation" first appeared in about 1680 to describe a partial dislocation of a skeletal joint. The word was invented by the real doctors of the time, two hundred years or so before DD Palmer had his inspiration. It comes from the Latin "subluxationem" which just happens to mean "partial dislocation". Daylight saving was first suggested in 1895, after the invention of chiropractic and its misappropriation of the word "subluxation".

A chiropractor getting something wrong in the defence of his quackery? Who would ever have expected that?