Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:10 am
“If I’m being manipulated by Trump ... then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said.”
He’s so, so close.
- Doc
It's so sad that he won't even consider that possibility. I don't see how anyone at all familiar with the Trump University scam could have any serious doubts that Trump is basically a con man. Certainly the many banks and contractors that Trump has cheated or defaulted on over his entire business career have very little doubt about that. The mere fact that he started out his political career denouncing the free press as the enemy of the people, like Hitler and Goebbels did when starting their ascent to tyranny, should have been a huge, bright red warning flag to anyone with even a passing acquaintanceship of the history of the rise of the Third Reich and the subsequent horrors of WWII. The fact that he also started out by demonizing minorities and blaming them for the ills of society, and trying to divide Americans against each other was also an unmistakable warning. These actions and techniques are right out of the playbook of the worst tyrants in history, including Hitler and Mussolini. It is heartbreaking to me that in this supposedly enlightened age there are still enough people in my country with enough bigotry and hatred in their hearts to be susceptible to such demagoguery.
It is not surprising that Caleb Fryar is a chiropractor. There are few fields of human endeavor and human activity more prone to pseudoscience, quackery and wild conspiracy theories than
chiropractic.
Chiropractic is a pseudoscientific[1] complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)[2] that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine.[3] Chiropractors, especially those in the field's early history, have proposed that such disorders affect general health via the nervous system.[3] The main chiropractic treatment technique involves manual therapy, especially manipulation of the spine, other joints, and soft tissues, but may also include exercises and health and lifestyle counseling.[4] Chiropractors are not physicians or medical doctors.[5][6]
There are two main groups of Chiropractors:
Chiropractic has two main groups: "straights", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, "innate intelligence", and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease; "mixers", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.[20
Most of the worst charlatans and quacks belong to the "straights" group. I have a good friend who is a chiropractor who is a "mixer." I have never had occasion or desire to utilize his services, but I have a high respect for him, and find him to be a highly intelligent, knowledgeable and rational man. He has a high respect for conventional medical science, and is not one of those prone to weird, off the rail pseudoscientific conspiracies.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
