Chiropractic care simply isn't as effective as people think it is. The claims made about its medical benefits are hilariously overstated, and much of the research in this area suffers from an obvious, detectable bias. The theoretical underpinnings about what it is that chiropractors do also doesn't match up with the facts, and many of the benefits people report could be caused by the placebo effect or other confounders. When tested, chiropractors arrive at wildly different—sometimes contradictory—diagnoses of what's "wrong" with a patient, and the real-world harms that result include injury and death.