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How Chiropractic Medicine Started as a Ghost Religion

Behind the Bastards

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Magnets Are a Popular Treatment for All Kinds of Ailments

By 1600 the idea that magnets might have some sort of serious medical benefit had been thoroughly debunked by a man named William Gilbert Gilbert. The best medicine comes as a bracelet and I buy it at Dick's Sporting Goods, he says. "I'm gonna watch it from a safe distance so Magnets have been a popular treatment for all kinds of ailments for thousands of years"

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