My movers would have LOVED for me to use small book boxes instead of the giganto file boxes I packed a literal ton of comic books and magazines into.

Too good not to share. The Diagram of Woo.

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Yeah, I'd think they'd prefer small heavy boxes over large impossible boxes!

Secret confession, I really like packing. It's the unpacking I cannot abide.

I am le nubian, because I hate packing, but love unpacking. It's like a fresh slate! How can you not like that?!?

That's one beautiful Venn diagram. And it turns out, unsurprisingly, that my own purely religious woo is strong. But of all the other woos out there, including everything where religious woo overlaps with one or more of the others, there were only four items on which I'm dubious but marginally willing to be convinced, mostly because of the personal experiences of people whose smarts I generally trust (ghosts, telepathy, chiropractics (some) and acupuncture (some)). Pretty much all the rest makes me go all squinty and stern. Except for ley lines, which make me go all squinty and "But it would be so cool if they were real!" and anti-vaxx, which just makes me want to punch people in the head.

But the pointillist pointer is even more beautiful than the woo Venn!

eta: I love culling, sorting, packing and unpacking and will happily sign on to any Buffista packing team ever, provided I can manage to get there.

And also, tommyrot in San Francisco, hooray! With bonus Monica!

Are chiropractors woo?

What professional movers really like a bunch of boxes that are the same size, but I hate the idea of buying boxes, so that's is too bad.

I think chiropractors are considered woo because the guy who developed it claimed he cured a man's deafness by manipulating his neck.

And that something called subluxation is the sole cause of all ailments and illness in people and spinal manipulation is the only cure for all those diseases.

Eating a salad get to the bottom and there is a human hair. Not mine. What do I do? At a restaurant.

I think chiropractors are considered woo because the guy who developed it claimed he cured a man's deafness by manipulating his neck.

And that something called subluxation is the sole cause of all ailments and illness in people and spinal manipulation is the only cure for all those diseases.

I think it's been demonstrated that chiropractic works for the lower- and mid-back, because shit gets out of whack. (The upper back and neck are dicier, because if something gets adjusted wrong, you are fucked unto the Lord.)

The sketchy part is when they tell you that you need adjustments every week forever to keep things in working order. OR when they claim that chiropractic can cure or fix anything other than some parts that are out of whack (say, from years of sitting on your foot, not that my hip would know anything about that). Because adjusting a vertebra will not cure a cold.

But from a biomechanical sense, chiropractic can help some things about as well as PT can.

Yep, what everyone else said - adjustments curing colds and deafness is pretty woo, but a fair amount of it seems pretty commonsensical.

I got a neck/shoulder adjustment once and it was pretty amazing - something horribly awry in one shoulder, that laughed mockingly at ibuprofen and heat and ice and a lengthy massage by a very gifted friend; then another acquaintance, a PT with some chiro training, offered to give it a try. She spent a few minutes poking and prodding both the wrecked and the normal shoulder, and then she did something fast and super-painful, and then the pain by-God vanished, completely. That's my kind of woo.