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Glenn Beck's article reeks of a promotional piece and I am somewhat skeptical of the reporting of his medical symptoms. It's like 'telephone' where a lot is lost in transmitting the information, because it doesn't sound reasonable to me that a physician would say any of the things he said. For example, you always hear the whole, "You've got x number of years to live," but in reality almost no physician I've ever worked with would say something like that. They will give you data in cancer survival for example, but someone with an undefined illness as he describes could not be given a prognosis! And then the moment he refrences this 'healing center' that performs 'miracles' my alarms were going off. I think you need to also consider that a lot of the symptoms he was supposedly showing are commonly seen in facticious or somatization disorder.

Open up his medical record to scrutiny by other physicians and let me see the data, otherwise I am very doubtful of his 'facts.'



I got the same vibe; top of the first Google SERP for the "Carrick Center":

http://neurobollocks.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/brain-balance-...

"Adrenal fatigue"?


I poked around their website, and found their FAQ (http://carrickbraincenters.com/learning-center/faqs/). The answer to the question "How long has this treatment been around? Does it work?" is telling:

The chiropractic practice of functional neurology is at the heart of our practice here at Carrick Brain Centers. Pioneered beginning 35 years ago by our namesake, Dr. Ted Carrick DC, PhD, functional neurology leverages the rapidly expanding knowledge of the brain and central nervous system to build diagnostics and individually targeted therapies that stimulate brain plasticity, the restorative power of the brain to build new neural connections in response to stimulation.

If you google "functional neurology", the first hit is: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Functional_neurology

Sounds like woo.


For what it's worth, it lost me at "chiropractic", and completely spiraled out of existence when it was followed up by "neurology".




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