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(Note: The pictures of Heidi are to document her drastic changes throughout her less than 30 days in the jungle.)
If they can convince Rob of this, then we would see a final four that would truly be a joy to have. If not, then we’d be left with the eye candy, who I must admit has played a good game. I can’t deny them that. My only problem with the “cool people” is that they still have their have-yet-to-grow-up-and-realize-that-there’s-more-to-people-than-physical-beauty mindset. They’ve played a good game and they’ve been pretty good strategists (with some exceptions), but their immaturity leaves a bit to be desired.

Thus far, we haven’t seen Butch and Matt having many conversations with Christy, but we know they had to have bonded out there. I have a feeling that the editors have purposely not shown us this because there is a long-shot that we’ll see them convincing Rob to vote against group hottie-body.

Psycho or Editing?
And we’ve seen Matt portrayed as a potentially murderous psycho, but I wonder how much of this is due to editing. Matt’s father is a bone-and-joint surgeon — Dr. Harry Von Ertfelda. Matt went to a prestigious culinary school in Paris. We already know he speaks Mandarin because he grew up in Hong Kong. And according to an article in his local paper, Matt has successfully traversed the Darien Gap, a famous jungle stretch that links Colombia to Panama.

He dived for sunken treasure off Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands and has trekked deep in the jungle into unmapped areas of New Guinea to track cannibals.

It’s difficult to have done all these things and not have social grace and be a complete, freak-everyone-out loner. Yes, he’s looking increasingly psycho, but we must put things into perspective: compare Matt’s changes to Heidi’s!

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Heidi aka Increasingly-Ugly-Athletic-Goddess-With-Disproportionately-Large-and-Very-Firm-Breasts-Who-Flips-Between-Keen-People-Observation-to-Generally-Clueless-Remarks-the-Majority-of-the-Time-Being-on-the-Clueless-Side girl.
Jenna (see the extremely flattering picture of the hottie at left) aka Almost-Beautiful-But-Looking-Better-and-Better-a-Little-Too-Obvious-With-Her-Aren’t-I-Cute-Looks-Swimsuit-Model girl.

Those four above are in some sort of “cool people” alliance, while the remaining three are being left to flop around on their own with seemingly no direction or organization.

The remaining three:
Matt aka Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy formerly King-of-the-Adjectives-Former-College-Studmuffin-Asshole-With-Surprisingly-Large-Muscles-and-Non-Expressive-Face-Who-Wears-Expensive-Sunglasses-and-Speaks-Cantonese-Mandarin-Who-Grew-Up-in-Hong-Kong-and-is-Able-To-Cook-a-Mean-Guppy-Were-He-To-Have-the-Right-Spices-and-Seasoning man.
Butch aka Non-Noticed-Ignored-But-May-Have-a-Few-Tricks-Up-His-Sleeve guy.

Christy (whose name I’ve always remembered so she has no adjectives). Christy is easily my favorite and it has absolutely nothing to do with her being deaf. She has repeatedly proven herself to be very insightful and very perceptive. She has held her own in every challenge. Her smile is entirely magnetic. She works hard. She’s not afraid to speak her mind (which is her one downfall in this relationships-oriented, be-nice-to-your-enemies game). And she (along with Butch) is probably loving and appreciating this experience more than anyone else out there in the jungle. The ONLY reason she isn’t seen as a leader is because the “cool people” are too idiotic and insensitive to realize all that she has to offer.

As was typical of all prior review episodes, last week’s was basically a waste of time. The only new stuff included more reasons as to why people voted as they did, Joanna aka Super-Annoying-Religious-Idiot woman screaming some more, Christy teaching some sign language, and maybe a few other minor things I’ve already forgotten.

Here’s what’s going on…
Rob has lit the bomb’s fuse called “Too many secrets and alliances.” He has a secret spy-like arrangement with Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy to pass on voting directives to Non-Noticed-Ignored-Guy-Who’s-Ability-to-Remain-is-Starting-to-Impress-Me man, but since it’s a secret spy-like arrangement that no one can suspect them of having, Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy must go out of his way to ensure that he and Rob are never seen speaking together.
So, they’ve created what they call a chain of communication. This is one of those concepts creative 6-year-olds make up when they play with action figures and make the cool bad-guy voices. In fact, I totally expect either of them, during their post-eviction Early Show interview, to say that they were just playing when they detailed all that secret spy communication stuff.

Play or not, Rob told everyone else how he’s sending Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy on wild goose changes just to keep him busy and they all laughed and laughed, making Rob feel oh-so-good about himself.

What Rob does not understand is that sooner or later, all those people he has laughing with him over how well he’s able to lie to Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy and Non-Noticed-Ignored guy will realize, “Hey, wait a minute. If Rob can lie so well to those two who consider him a friend and partner, who’s to say that he can’t lie to us just as well?”

Something else that makes me question things about Rob is his continual mention of how he thinks Increasingly-Psychotic-Looking guy is going to kill him. Everyone else has also made similar comments, but never anything about him being dangerous. So, I think it’s possible that the others in the tribe are simply yupping Rob along.
In other words, this is a case of a dweeb being allowed to hang around with the popular people because this dweeb is helping them with their grades or he’s a computer hacker that got them credit cards or something like that.

I, however, think that this transition is fraught with danger — to patients. It’s a piece of cake for chiropractors to come up with misalignments, but conjuring fixations is a snap. Usually, fixations are relative. If I palpate a segment and turn the patient to the right and to the left, one side may move significantly less than the other, and I can pronounce the less mobile side “fixated.” But the body is not structurally symmetrical, and there is no reason to expect it to be functionally symmetrical. Another way to find “fixations” is to “motion palpate” several successive vertebral segments. One could declare that the segment with the shortest range of motion is fixated. But one of them had to have the least mobility.

Finding chiropractic “fixations” is even more arbitrary than finding chiropractic “subluxations.” Typically, it hinges on the intuitions, the feelings, of the chiropractor, and it might surprise you to know just how different those feelings can be. Magner did point out that “most studies have demonstrated marginal-to-poor interexaminer reliability” for motion palpation, but I would like to give a specific example. Several years ago, the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), a chiropractic publication out of National College, reported on a study of the reliability of cervical motion palpation. The test involved just one segment and the principal question was unambiguous: Did it bend better to the right or to the left? The main finding of the study was that “interexaminer agreement rates with respect to the side of greatest fixation were not found to be significantly different from that expected by chance alone, ” In other words, fixation-finding is a crap shoot. The chiropractors could not agree on whether one segment moved better to the right or to the left. In light of this, what chance is there of concordance if the field of observation is expanded to include the whole spine or the entire body? Other studies reported in JMPT and the American Journal of Chiropractic Medicine have demonstrated the interexaminer unreliability of motion palpation. Yet “life is motion” is chiropractic’s new battle cry.

There is another problem with the fixation concept: It is difficult to drum up dire consequences from it. After all, how harmful can a fixation be? As far as I know, no one has ever died from one. Restricted motion may be the only significant consequence of a joint fixation. What is the real correlation between joint fixations and symptoms? In other words, do people with joint fixations tend to have more symptoms (such as pain) than do those whose joints are more mobile? To my knowledge, no one has ever tried to answer that question scientifically. Until such a study is done, it is only an assumption that joint fixations are the cause of anyone’s pain. Inadequacy of joint mobility can be troublesome, but whether high-velocity thrusting is the best way to rectify it is highly questionable.

Rotten Apple
The last chapter of the book deals with how to reform chiropractic. Magner advocates establishment of chiropractic teaching programs within universities that teach medicine and dentistry. He proposes a new kind of degree, “Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine,” to represent the science-oriented chiropractors. He states (a) that standards should be established for the upgrading of D.C. degrees to D.C.M. degrees; (b) that D.C.M.s “should be permitted to utilize prescription drugs appropriate to the scope of their practices”; and (c) that the plan of Western States Chiropractic College (my alma mater) to start a D.C.M. program “appears to be a step in the right direction.” I think that Magner is being a Pollyanna here. I don’t think there is any way to divorce chiropractic from its historical and philosophical roots. You can’t remove subluxation theory and inanities such as “Innate Intelligence” from chiropractic and still call it “chiropractic.” Spinal manipulation has limited therapeutic utility in healthcare and can be taught and administered in nonchiropractic settings.

The chiropractic apple is rotten to the core with dogmatism and cultism. I say chuck it.

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Chiropractic supports dozens of different techniques… The various chiropractic techniques… [have] different theoretical bases… Many… are truly distinct and incompatible with each other…There is no comparable circumstance in any other health care profession.

Magner should have added that in no other healthcare profession do we find so much personality cultism. Barge, Dejarnette, Epstein, Fefferi, Fuhr, Gonstead, Goodheart, Merick, Morter, Nimmo, Pettibone, Pierce, Stillwagon, Thompson, Toftness, Van Rump — these names, and many others, are familiar to every chiropractor in America. They are the names of chiropractic gurus with devoted followings. The word “chiropractic” has become nothing more than a convenient slogan used by competing factions of a manual-therapy subculture with different and conflicting theoretical bases.

This brings me to a very important point about chiropractic research. Magner does a good job picking apart the Meade study, the RAND study, and the Manga report, all of which, according to most chiropractors, proved the effectiveness and superiority of chiropractic treatment. He did not, however, make the following point clearly enough. Considering what a theoretic mess chiropractic is, and how much chiropractors contradict one another in what they say and do, what good is there in trying to measure chiropractic effects? Here’s an analogy: Imagine a study in which physicians prescribe whatever medicines they deem appropriate without identifying their prescriptions. Because of the plethora of medicines available and the lack of medicine identification, all this study could possibly demonstrate is the subjective effect of the belief that one is taking medicine — the placebo effect. Unless one precisely identifies and limits the object of evaluation, a study has no meaning. But this is exactly the case with chiropractic research. In most instances, no attempt is made to define or limit the “adjustive” and ancillary techniques to be evaluated. No one looks into what the chiropractors actually did, so long as they did something that was called “chiropractic.” The results, therefore, are absolutely meaningless, yet chiropractors shout and jump for joy at their “vindication.” It’s a fool’s paradise.

The chapter titled “Nutrition-Related Nonsense” brought to mind another experience I had at chiropractic college. An instructor who loved “muscle testing” a la applied kinesiology claimed not only that he could determine thereby whether a person needed a particular vitamin, but also that he could find out exactly how much the person needed and which brand would be best. A friend of mine and I played a trick on him one day. We emptied a vitamin capsule and filled it with plain sucrose. We produced it during class and told the professor it was vitamin C. Through “muscle testing,” he seemingly determined that a particular student was deficient in table sugar. The “muscle tester” wasn’t happy when he learned of the prank but of course had an explanation. Chiropractors always do.

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Subluxation is an aberrant relationship between two adjacent articular [joint] structures that may have functional or pathological sequelae [consequences].

I don’t know if it’s possible to cram more gobbledygook into one sentence. Magner cites Yale anatomist Edmund S. Crelin’s study of spinal movement in the 1970s, which showed that nerve impingement does not occur in the spine without major dislocation or fracture. I was then a student at Western States Chiropractic College, and I remember the furor that Crelin’s study caused within the chiropractic community. The ACA president said that the study was meaningless because it was done on cadavers. Magner quotes Crelin’s response: “In a living person there is a reflex response by the powerful spinal muscles to fight or resist any forces that would sublux a vertebra to the degree that it and/or spinal nerves could be damaged… Thus, if the impingement on the nerves could not happen in a dead body, it definitely could not happen in a living one.” This response, which makes perfect sense, did not reach me at chiropractic college.

Love Is Blind?
Reading Chapter 5, “Questionable Marketing Tactics,” reminded me of an experience I had several years ago during a continuing-education seminar for license renewal. Ostensibly, the subject was “Chiropractic Pediatrics,” but the seminar actually dealt with how to steer parents into subjecting their children to “adjustments.” The instructor presented a “patient education” video he had made, in which he initiates his young son into chiropractic. He shows the boy a chart of the nervous system, lays him on a table, and gently performs several perfunctory-looking spinal “adjustments.” Then he stands the boy on the table and asks him:

“Do you know why I gave you those chiropractic adjustments, Son?”

“Why, Dad?” the boy inquires.

“Because I love you.”

“I love you, too, Dad.”

Then the chiropractor picks his son up, hugs him, and, eyes closed, starts dancing around the room with him. In the soundtrack, Michael Jackson sings about saving children.

At this point, I was queasy, but the roomful of chiropractors burst into applause. Then the instructor stepped up to the mike and said: “Are parents going to eat this up, or what?” Copies of his video were for sale at the end of the program and, believe me, sales were brisk.

Chapter 6 deals with chiropractic “preventive maintenance’ — treating well, nonsymptomatic persons on a regular basis. I receive two chiropractic newspapers (only because they are sent to me free), and I can tell you that “maintenance care” is very big. Chiropractic is less about solving particular spinal problems with manipulation than about conditioning people to the “adjustment” experience and routinizing them to interconnect “adjustments” and how they feel. In my observation, people who submit to frequent spinal “adjustments” eventually start waking up every morning with the thought “Is my neck in or out?”

Once when I was a practicing chiropractor, a young man visited me who said he’d gone to 28 chiropractors in the previous month, searching for the perfect adjustment. I asked him: “Did any of the chiropractors, upon finding out how many others you had seen previously in such a short time, suggest that what you really needed was not another adjustment, but rather, psychological help to deal with your obsession?” He answered no. Every single one of them had stepped up to the plate and taken another crack at this kid’s neck. I assure you he did not receive an “adjustment” from me.

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Things that Go Bump in the Night?
After relating the nightmare of his own experience as a chiropractic patient, Magner summarizes the stories of 20 other chiropractic victims. For most of them, the consequences of chiropractic treatment — including stroke, paralysis, coma, and death — were graver than Magner’s problems. Reading that section reminded me of something more frightening: a study published by the Australian Chiropractic Association in the late 1980s. It detailed over 100 cases of stroke, paralysis, coma, and other serious problems that had resulted from chiropractic “adjustments.”

Magner provides a rather lively history of the founding of chiropractic at the turn of the century by D.D. Palmer, an itinerant “magnetic healer” in Iowa. Chiropractic has been mired in conflict and melodrama from its very beginnings. As every first-semester chiropractic student knows, the first chiropractic patient was Harvey Lillard. Supposedly, Lillard was “deaf” but recovered his ability to “hear as before” by receiving the premier chiropractic adjustment from D.D. Palmer. Although it often takes weeks and months for chiropractors to resolve common back complaints in their patients, “The Founder” allegedly cured deafness in one treatment — by adjusting the fourth thoracic segment. This segment has absolutely nothing to do with hearing, but learned-sounding chiropractors have expounded how sympathetic nerve reflexes could have traveled up the cervical chain ganglia affecting the circulation to the ear and thereby restored hearing. I call this “chirobabble.” In the last hundred years, many thousands of chiropractic patients must have had some degree of hearing impairment. The number of incontrovertible cures should have famed chiropractic as a treatment for auditory problems. Another question leaps from the Lillard case: How could a single “adjustment” have quickly and safely corrected a joint displacement that had persisted for seventeen years?

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