Scoliosis diagnosis via back-twisting is medically invalid — a 'pop' is not confirmation of healing, and Todd White has cultivated a deliberately low threshold for confirming healings.

Mike argues that scoliosis cannot be tested by having someone bend or twist their back. The pop sound is normal and uninformative. The girl's answer — 'it doesn't hurt so much' — is ambiguous. Todd's pattern is to build a low confirmation threshold: any small response is treated as confirmation, and he will often speak the healing before it happens, then latch onto anything that follows as evidence it occurred.