{"id":3458,"date":"2013-01-09T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2013-01-09T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T03:05:11","slug":"in-which-i-am-spammed-by-a-chiropractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/in-which-i-am-spammed-by-a-chiropractor\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am spammed by a Chiropractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my colleague Prof. Scalise likes to say, it&#8217;s stupid &#8211; and a little bit funny &#8211; when pseudoscience peddlers and scam artists try to use their nonsense on people that teach a class in fighting pseudoscience and scams. I got my first one today, in Twitter (of all places). A local chiropractor in Richardson, TX sent me a tweet today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drsekula\"><s>@<\/s><b>drsekula<\/b><\/a> drsekula Do you feel like you were ran over by a truck? Chiropractic care is your medication alternative!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I felt like I were run over by a truck, a real medical issue, I would go and see a real medical doctor. <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23FightPseudoscience&amp;src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\"><s>#<\/s><b>FightPseudoscience<\/b><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a screen cap of the original tweet and the response. I really don&#8217;t expect them to say anything useful back; they will, in all probability, simply move on and find a sucker. I don&#8217;t expect them to respond; but, then, they probably didn&#8217;t expect me to respond either. So fair is fair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3459\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Twitter_Real_Medical_Doctor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3459\" alt=\"Tweet spam!\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Twitter_Real_Medical_Doctor.png\" width=\"534\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Twitter_Real_Medical_Doctor.png 534w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Twitter_Real_Medical_Doctor-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tweet spam!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my colleague Prof. Scalise likes to say, it&#8217;s stupid &#8211; and a little bit funny &#8211; when pseudoscience peddlers and scam artists try to use their nonsense on people that teach a class in fighting pseudoscience and scams. I got my first one today, in Twitter (of all places). A local chiropractor in Richardson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,80,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-3458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-science","7":"tag-antiscience","8":"tag-badscience","9":"tag-fighting-pseudoscience","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}