Is this the book you're talking about?
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/cancer-killersI can already tell from a quick glance that it's not a source to be trusted in any way, shape or form.
The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is The Cure offers a radically new perspective on cancer, overcoming the prevailing half-century-old fatalistic view of "its all in the genes" into a liberating and empowering new vision of what the human body is capable of overcoming, given the right conditions.
From the first-hand experience of Dr. Charles Majors, who overcame an "incurable" form of metastatic bone cancer, to the theoretical framework provided by Sayer Ji and Dr. Ben Lerner within which self-healing from cancer is made intelligible, this book strikes to the root causes of and solutions for the cancer epidemic.Offers radical new treatment, claims to tear apart conventional medicine, first-hand experiences(read:anecdotes) etcetc. These are all huge warning signs that say "pseudo science". I'm sorry man but I'm not even going to bother reading it which is perhaps a bit close-minded but I've read so much of that kind of junk before.
The fact that they still spend millions upon millions of dollars on homeopathy research pretty much says it all, the people deciding who get research grants and who doesn't are obviously brainwashed or ignorant to a certain degree. Harsh words I know, but tbh there's not a lot of other ways of putting it.
Still you're relying on anecdotes. Replace chiro's with homeopaths and replace yourself with someone else that believes in A.M and I promise you they'll tell me the exact same story:
when I learn that ......... is harmful, or that it does nothing, I would throw in the towel. So far, that couldn't be farther from the truth. I live this stuff, I see the good it does every single day, the kids who get helped, the athletes. Its an overwhelming amount of positive feedback. My doc back home who has a ridiculously busy practice has MDs coming in all the time asking to shadow him and Learn what he does, because they dont understand why their patients are responding better under ................ care instead and getting off their meds. Some docs become enraged when their egos start to take a hit, but most MDs are blown away and have a newfound respect when they learn what we actually do, and the referrals come pouring in.
I see these kind of testimonials about every single A.M there is so I hope you understand why it's worthless to me, at least. What I'm interested in is evidence-based medicine.
Interfere with its proper function, and your health will be affected
Exactly what kind of health are you talking about here? Does health mean anything else but lower back pain? If it does, you're walking on very thin ice, evidence-wise.
I'm currently a mechanical engineering student.
BINGO
This is what it largely comes down to. You have a different philosophy regarding health care than I do. You have been taught By the medical community What your approach to health should be. And that is fine, to each his own. But in my health care model, I'm seeing lives changed for the better every single day, people getting off their meds, feeling better, improving their health in an inexpensive, non invasive, remarkably safe manner.
Food for thought: the next time you have a headache and take some aspirin, ask yourself, "is my body deficient in aspirin today?" Is that why you take it? That should fix the problem right? Or maybe, it's just masking the symptoms?
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-medicine at all, but I think there are often times, better routes to optimal health. Do you know how many times we've had patients come in for their first visit and been on a laundry list of meds, half of which are prescribed to treat symptoms from other drugs, often times certain drugs even have OPPOSING actions in the body. It's crazy man...I see it all the time. These people aren't healthy.
The scientific method applies to us all, no matter if we like or not. It's not just "a different way" of looking at things, it's straight up the best method we have currently have to find out how nature and the universe works. It's not something you dismiss as just "another" philosophy. Either you are interested in coming closer and closer to the truth, or you ain't.
The fact that our average lifespan is well above 50 years and we all have reasonable dental health(major killer for cave men), have vaccines, antibiotics, preventive care etcetc is ALL due to modern evidence based medicine. ALL. OF. IT. Just roughly 150-200 years ago the best treatment "doctors" had to offer was bloodletting, which really should tell you something. What has happened since then? Modern evidence-based medicine.
It's not perfect by any means but we are consistently getting better at it and it's by far the best we've got. Put chiropractics up the same standard and see how it holds up.
