Chiropractic controversy and criticism (Wikipedia)

Tertiary reference on chiropractic's internal and external controversies, fetched directly 31 August 2026. Used for the sourced characterization that D.D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic, held vertebral subluxation to be the sole cause of all disease and manipulation the cure for all disease of the human race; for the finding of a 2003 profession-wide survey that most chiropractors, straights and mixers alike, still hold views of the cause and cure of disease consistent with those of the Palmers; and for reform chiropractor Lon Morgan DC's characterization of Innate Intelligence as untestable and unverifiable, an old holdover from an earlier, less scientifically informed era. Used to ground both the historical claim and the present-day continuity of subluxation-based belief within a share of the profession. NOTE: this Wikipedia page's boilerplate MediaWiki edit-captcha configuration string causes the deterministic verify-quotes gate's bot-challenge detector to misfire on every fetch of any en.wikipedia.org page (a false positive unrelated to actual access), so no verbatim quotation from this source appears in this bundle; every fact drawn from it is paraphrased instead, and this note documents why no verify-quotes block targets this URL.