Episode 71 - Chiropractors, Exodus, and The Great Commission

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: Are chiropractors helpful or harmful? What does the Great Commission mean today? Did the Exodus really happen? What’s the science if narcotics addiction? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. Are chiropractors helpful or harmful? Chiropractic Chiropractic Care: Attempting a Risk–Benefit Analysis What does the Great Commission mean today? The Gospel of Matthew (Blue Letter Bible) The Gospel of Matthew (Wikipedia) Gospel of Matthew (Theopedia) Did the Exodus really happen? Exodus by Carol Meyers The Exodus Is Not Fiction Evidence for the Exodus The Exodus: Does archaeology have a say? What’s the science if narcotics addiction? The Chemistry of Addiction The Science of Choice in Addiction The Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain This is your brain on heroin Preproduction by Andrew Galucki. Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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0:27.0	Chiropractors, Exodus, and The Great Commission. All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. Mike. We're problems he won't solve there but I'm talking talking talking till it's blue in the face
0:47.2	science faith and life Ask Science Mike
1:00.0	Welcome to Ask Science Mike, the weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith and life. I want to let you know that I'll be at the Wild Goose Festival and you can be my guest and get a discount of 25% off your ticket by using Goosecast 16 when you buy your tickets.
1:11.6	Learn more by going to ask science mic.com but for now we've got a show to do so let's get it started. Hey Science Mike so I wanted to ask about chiropractors because the people I know who have gone have found a lot of healing from chronic back pain and hip pain and just had all positive experiences but whenever the subject comes up online there seems to be a lot of negativity people saying
1:45.2	they're not real doctors there scams things like that so I guess I was just
1:51.1	curious what you knew about chiropractors and if it's effective and safe and and good. All right well hey thanks
2:00.0	This is a great question and one I've wondered about myself. I'm a person who has at
2:06.4	time struggled with some pretty chronic back pain and I've got some problem with my spinal discs and I've often heard that chiropractors can offer relief.
2:19.0	I've even had doctors tell me I should visit a chiropractor and so I did a little
2:26.2	research and said what or looked at what science has to say about chiropractic care. So let's first understand what it is
2:36.0	where it came from. Chiropractic care is an alternative form of medicine
2:41.0	dating back to the late 1800s and the theory behind
2:46.4	chiropractic care is that it's allowing the body's innate intelligence to
2:52.3	heal disease by aligning the nervous system, especially in and around the spinal column.
2:59.0	Now that sounds pretty different from modern medical theory, trying to release a body's innate
3:06.0	intelligence to do it.
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