A TWO-YEAR FOLLOW-UP: TWITTER ACTIVITY REGARDING MISINFORMATION ABOUT SPINAL MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC CARE AND BOOSTING IMMUNITY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

A two-year follow-up: Twitter activity regarding misinformation about spinal manipulation, chiropractic care and boosting immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract Background Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is offered by many health professions, most often by chiropractors.While SMT can be effective for some musculoskeletal disorders, there is no evidence that SMT improves human immunity in a clinically meaningful way.Despite this, we showed previously that Twitter misinformation about chiropractic

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Three new species of Potamothrix (Oligochaeta, Naididae, Tubificinae) from Fuxian Lake, the deepest lake of Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Three new species of Potamothrix Vejdovský & Mrázek, 1902 (Oligochaeta: Tubificinae), P.praeprostatus sp.n., P.paramoldaviensis sp.n.and P.parabedoti sp.n., are reported from Fuxian Lake of Yunnan Province, Southwest China.P.praeprostatus differs from its allies hellfire sloe gin by its prostate glands joining atria in its proxima

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