You may want to think your relationship with your chiropractor after hearing this story. In 1895 D.D. Palmer was told a joke and laughed so hard that he smacked another man on the back inadvertently cracking his back. This event, combined with talking to a dead (ghost) doctor led to the founding of chiropractic, a pseudoscience that is a 450 MILLION DOLLAR industry in the United States! As crazy as that sounds, people go to chiropractors all the time to have their backs manipulated, adjusted, and tweaked, but is there any science behind or is it just nineteenth century quackery. Do they even deserve the title of doctor? On this episode of Wiki U Kyle and Jheisson crack open the history books of chiropractic and learn about the practice and it's controversial founder D.D. Palmer.

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