Interesting Links for 24-06-2017

[andrewducker]

EU prepares to move two agencies from London (and more than a thousand jobs)

Plus 36,000 visitors and 30,000 hotel nights...
(tags: london europe jobs )

Trump administration dissolves Afghanistan-Pakistan unit

(tags: usa politics Afghanistan pakistan )

Brexit, the EU and UK lives: More questions than answers

(tags: europe uk )

List: 11 Ways That I, a White Man, Am Not Privileged

(tags: privilege satire )

Hard Brexit under threat as MPs from all parties plan alliance to defeat Theresa May's plans

(tags: uk europe politics )

the de-butching of alison bechdel

(tags: gender clothing lgbt theatre society )

Hundreds of English rivers drained below sustainable levels despite looming drought crisis

(tags: water uk )

The Inside Story of TI's Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor

(tags: processor history technology computers )

Elmer Fudd Hunting Batman Through the Streets of Gotham is Terrifying and Amazing

(tags: comics Batman cartoon )

The Clitoris: A short animated film of its history

(tags: sex pleasure clitoris animation video )

Fire cladding tests failed by 27 high-rise blocks

(tags: fire safety epicfail )

Chiropractors are bullshit

Because I know a few people who have used them, and in one case ended up off work for weeks because of it.
(tags: fraud medicine health OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[armiphlage]

The Bechdel one is now friends-protected.

[jack]

I guess this is a reposting of the same thing, though I don't know for sure: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/sinisterwoman.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/the-de-butching-of-alison-bechdel/amp/

[movingfinger]

Thank you!

[mlknchz]

I've used chiropractors before, and they've helped me. *shrug*

[murasaki1966]

Same here. A chiro found my dislocated hip (done at age 4) when I was 19 and saved my life from a lot of pain.

Having said that, there are a lot of under qualified people out there, and I steer clear of the ones who claim they can cure everything. I always check that the practitioner follows evidence based practice.

Chiro practice in Britain seems to be a long behind Australia, too. Here it's a uni degree qualification.

Another point: the original methodology for chiropractic medicine is shite. It's alternative health bull dust. There is a fight going on in the discipline between the evidence- based practitioners and the alternative.

[movingfinger]

I'm not sure Brexiters are taking the jobs-multiplier effect of Brexit seriously, or maybe they just don't care. The various UK regions have experienced, in living memory, the effect of a major employer going away. Is it that this is in London and London is supposed or imagined to be more robust?

[andrewducker]

There's a mixture of lack of belief, assuming everyhing will be fine, and willingness to be worse off if it means we have "sovereignty" back.

[snippy]

Maybe chiropracty is a form of placebo. That doesn't make it a fraud: placebos work, even when people know they're placebos.

[andrewducker]

The claims they make are fraudulent and based on clear lies.

[marahmarie]

Yet some people do swear by them (I know one, who goes on at length about it with little prodding, and it's his back, so I figure he knows how it felt before and after better than I ever will). Was going to jump in with the placebo effect comment myself but snippy admirably beat me to it...there is a lot to be said for how thinking something works can be just as powerful as the fact that it might actually be working.

[matgb]

Sometimes work. Placebos sometimes work, and not for all people, and definitely not for effectively for some of the things chiropractors say they can cure.

If chiropracty only works on a placebo basis then it shouldn't cost more than sugar pills, as it is it costs a lot more and in some cases is actively dangerous.