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(December 13, 2020 at 10:18 am)Lawz Wrote: There seems to have been an increase in "click bait" thread titles recently...has it gone out of fashion to actually say what the thread is about in the thread title?

Yes...should we change the rules?

(December 13, 2020 at 9:49 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(December 13, 2020 at 9:38 am)brewer Wrote: Sooo......... not a chiropractor. Good to know.

I really, really hate the chiropractors. One of my aunts was "treated" by one for an "injury" due to an automobile accident. He treated her for five years for a bruised leg. Then, at the end of that five years he "discovered" that she had "broken her hip" some unknown time in the past. So she kept paying him for that pitiful bit of attention she got each week. (He never explained why it took him five years to find that old injury. Or how she had not noticed a broken hip herself.)

A chiropractor kept 'adjusting' my grandmother.  She went to him seeking relief for being achy and sore and she was hearing a lot of snapping and popping when she did things as simple as brushing her hair.  She died a couple years after starting these adjustments of bone cancer that went undetected because she didn't go to a real doctor until it was too late.

Looks like non-doctor Epstein has stepped in it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/...index.html

Boru

(December 13, 2020 at 11:45 am)arewethereyet Wrote:

(December 13, 2020 at 9:49 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I really, really hate the chiropractors. One of my aunts was "treated" by one for an "injury" due to an automobile accident. He treated her for five years for a bruised leg. Then, at the end of that five years he "discovered" that she had "broken her hip" some unknown time in the past. So she kept paying him for that pitiful bit of attention she got each week. (He never explained why it took him five years to find that old injury. Or how she had not noticed a broken hip herself.)

A chiropractor kept 'adjusting' my grandmother.  She went to him seeking relief for being achy and sore and she was hearing a lot of snapping and popping when she did things as simple as brushing her hair.  She died a couple years after starting these adjustments of bone cancer that went undetected because she didn't go to a real doctor until it was too late.

Yeah, "alternative medicine" kills.

I saw a zoo show where they were doing acupuncture on an elderly elephant. You could see the "specialist" trying to look like she knew what she was doing. I was sad and infuriated at the same time.

'You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? They call it medicine.' - Tim Minchin

Boru

(December 14, 2020 at 4:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Looks like non-doctor Epstein has stepped in it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/...index.html

Boru

WSJ also published another article today that has counter narrative.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dr-is-i...1607886242

My stance is that anyone having problem with the title “Dr” should make argument to society at large and not by signaling out a particular person—or else it’s merely a personal bias towards that person.

If he has a problem with the title, he should address it on that substance—he wants one person to drop the tile while thousands similar happily carry on with theirs—this reeks of bias and misogyny.

Can an Honorary Ph.D. use "Dr."?

(December 14, 2020 at 1:40 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Can an Honorary Ph.D. use "Dr."?

They can, but they usually don’t.

Boru

(December 13, 2020 at 10:18 am)Lawz Wrote: There seems to have been an increase in "click bait" thread titles recently...has it gone out of fashion to actually say what the thread is about in the thread title?

Sorry, I tend to like drama and surprise. I find news paper like titles boring. But if it's a nuisance then I guess I'd go with the boring.