I don't know anyone who has much against chiropractors PERSONALLY, as persons making a living, but the practice of chiropractic makes factual claims about how many disease conditions can be treated by manipulation of the spine, and those claims are bogus. The state I live in treats chiropractors as one of several kinds of state-licensed healing practitioners, and I think the major health insurance networks here do "evidence-based" evaluation of treatments and reimburse for chiropractic treatment of back pain. But there would be no evidence-based reason to reimburse chiropractic treatment for high blood pressure or arthritis or many other things that a chiropractic training program (there is one in my state) might claim that chiropractic treatment can help. In some cases there are public agencies that pay for people's treatments, and it is important that the payers get right which treatments work for which conditions.

http://www.csicop.org/si/2008-01/thyer.html

http://www.layscience.net/node/566

http://www.chirobase.org/01General/message.html

http://medicareupdate.typepad.com/medicare_update/2009/05/me...

P.S. to the OP: what's causing the stupid horizontal scrolling of the interesting original post you kindly submitted? I had to downsize the font to a degree hard on my eyes to see all the text on screen at the same time.