The Magic Tonsillectomy or Armstrong's Voodoo Science?

[Greg R Parker]

You do not seem to comprehend that a doctor of osteopathy, in the United States, is given the title of doctor not because this form of treatment is recognized as good medicine but, rather, because an osteopath must be trained as a medical doctor.


You also make a number of totally groundless assumptions. Simply because LHO was seen by Dr. Philben in 1945 does nothing to prove or disprove whether or not he was a licenced medical doctor. And, despite his osteopathic beliefs, how do you know he did not regularly refer his patients for tonsillectomies?


Unless Margeurite Oswald believed LHO's tonsils were removed by magic, which I highly doubt, she more than likely believed LHO's tonsils had been removed, simply by the extreme discomfort her child would have been in for many days following the tonsillectomy.


Finally, if you are disturbed by the lack of medical records verifying LHO had received a tonsillectomy, how do you feel about all of the other "missing" material in the JFK case?

Again Robert, kudos for giving this a good old fashioned try.

Unfortunately you're pissing into the wind again.

Osteopaths were NOT recognized until the 1970s in the US as shown below:

"Despite opposition from orthodox practitioners, osteopaths retained their independence and by the end of the 1970s had become legally eligible for unlimited practice licensesas D.O.sin every state. No longer in danger of being labeled quacks and cultists, osteopaths were transformed into members of a parallel profession'' struggling to avoid losing its unique identity. By the end of the nineteenth century, as osteopaths gained a mea- sure of professional recognition, they found themselves battling both medical doctors and osteopathic imitators.''
http://fx.damasgate.com/osteopaths-and-chiropractors/


RP: "You also make a number of totally groundless assumptions. Simply because LHO was seen by Dr. Philben in 1945 does nothing to prove or disprove whether or not he was a licenced medical doctor."

GP: Yes it does. See above.

RP: "And, despite his osteopathic beliefs, how do you know he did not regularly refer his patients for tonsillectomies?"

GP: Because that would be the same as Posner referring someone to the Deep Politics Forum for the answers to Dealey Plaza.

RP: "Finally, if you are disturbed by the lack of medical records verifying LHO had received a tonsillectomy, how do you feel about all of the other "missing" material in the JFK case?"

GP: I'm not disturbed by it any more than I am disturbed by anything else that doesn't exist. Like say, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny or "Harvey".