Who would know more about medicine? Him off of Snow Patrol or a trained professional?

Who wouldn't mistrust western medicine when therapies such as crystal healing have played such a massive role in the fight to cure diseases like cancer?

Think I'll steal that one as well!

He could have used his showbiz contacts to utilise the healing hands of Chris de Burgh. He cured Markus Babbel y'know.

of how ridiculous he sounds?

What a berk (no, really)

Idiothole. Western medicine should mistrust him as clearly he was an abusive, waste of NHS resources, drunken oaf.

And I detect a note of pride in his own stupidity.

...I don't see X Rays as being a mistrust-of-Western-medicine issue. It's more of a technological thing, surely? Does he never fly anywhere, for example?

of celebrities voicing their crassly stupid opinions. They really do live in a bubble and are evidently starved of sufficient oxygen to allow their brains to work properly. It's the implication of his comment, that "Western medicine" is some kind of Solent Green grand illusion designed to make us unwell or dependent on prescribed drugs or brain-washed into being unable to think for ourselves by virtue of trusting someone in a white coat with a big scalpel.

Unlike Gary of course who has obviously thought this one through logically to be able to declare that an X-ray is some kind of Western medical manifestation of invisible terror that intrudes into our personal space when previous procedures such as cutting us open willy-nilly or ignoring our cries of pain because the doctor couldn't see anything is so much more preferable a solution than harnessing a wavelength that occurs in nature of its own accord.

No, what Gary is implying is that what is eminently preferable to "Western medicine" is for us all to just use the impact of a badly coordinated foray into gravitational force as an opportune moment to have a nice cup of camomile tea and a sniff of some incense.

"Oh excuse me Mr.Non-Western Medicine Man can you possibly give me anything for the pain caused by my jawbone hanging off my face?"

"Hmm, let me see Mr. Lightbody have you tried rubbing some sulphur crystals while chanting? And while you're here I can provide you with a vial of 15 different plants in liquid form to cure your profoundly stupid prejudices as regards medical science. Take 4 times daily for 7 days and when the course is complete the vial will fit neatly into your gob providing permanent respite from your tedious chitter-chatter."

...is why they name loo cleaner after this band.

just need a kicking

...he could visit the doctor's in Vladivostok.

hasn't been dislocated more often. I want to take a hammer to him everytime I hear Chasing Cars, and a double hammer when I hear the Leona Lewis version.

I heard today that "Toploader" are getting back together happy weekend everyone!

to say, "It's all my own fault." Can you imagine the lawsuits that would be flying if this was an American singer?

...mistrusted Western amplification.

A dislocated jaw is not something you can live with. Without wishing to go into technicalities, it is impossible to close your mouth. The article fails to note how the "dislocation" was treated, nor the symptoms. It is a bit of Chinese Whispers journalism. Shitebody has been told something by a medic which he has interpreted and told to a journo who has further interpreted it and written it up. What the original diagnosis was I have no idea. But it wasn't a dislocated jaw. And an x-ray would have been fuck-all use in the diagnosis.

'They can’t find a good word for you,
but I can...'

His interviews are as banal as his bands lyrics. What a pilchard.

it wasn't lockjaw.
What a idiothole.