Too Bad (Our Gay & Feminist Friends Said Otherwise)

Reading a real doctor, as opposed to fake professors, Dr. Edzard Ernst has compiled a list of appropriate alternative medicine-related gifts for the NewAger in your life:

FOR THE CHIROPRACTOR

Chiropractic was invented about 120 years ago when D.D. Palmer adjusted a subluxation in the neck of a deaf janitor who could then hear again,...I suggest to give them a textbook of anatomy; there they can read up how the inner ear is connected to the brain via nerves which do not even pass via the spine but remain safely in the skull. I am sure the chiropractor will appreciate this news; it will make her think and she might even start doubting whether the rest of the gospel of Mr Palmer is correct."

Sigh.

It hurts to think - since my "significant other" was totally into all the mentioned practices - how she would've really made out this year,...