I out-geeked Bad Astronomer in Twitter a while back. Wil Wheaton tweeted a series of numbers. I noticed the pattern; the prime numbers from the Fibonacci Series. I mentioned it. A short while later, Bad Astronomer noted that Wheaton was missing a few numbers from the series. I sent him a message letting him know the score, and he acknowledged that he'd missed it, with the follow-on pun "How odd."1
So that was my shining moment in Twitter. Yeah.
So... he's against alternative medicine.
Now, while his comments on chiropractors are not sweeping and all-inclusive, I do sense a distinct generality to the statements. I have been benefiting from chiropracty for a while now. I don't feel that it has prevented cancer or any other disease, but it has eased my own discomfort for a specific skeletal-alignment based problem.
In other words, I think chiropracty has its place in the medical field, just like any other specific branch of medicine. But I won't see a chiropractor for a pair of glasses, any more than I'd see an eye doctor for a toothache, or a dentist for a sprained ankle.
'Cause that'd be just as bad as taking herbal tea and vitamins for leukemia.
1. Math joke. Go ask a nerd.
