Blog

From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss  instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.

Deduction

Other than the chiropractic profession, there is hardly a profession in existence (beside orthodox theology) that places any evidence on deduction. Even medical/health procedure is pretty much focused on the inductive method. Science is king and research seems to be the stepchild of that royalty despite the fact that it entirely negates deduction and emphasizes ... Read more
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Premise #1

Chiropractic is deductive and may be explained by its 33 principles.
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Enlightenment

We are in union with a Creative Intelligence. That occurs by The humanistic philosophy of the 18th century, the transcendental meditation of the 20th century and the Palmer philosophy of the 19th century. The only thing that kept chiropractic from going that way is the Objective chiropractic philosophy and making that capital O,-GOD
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Parts of the Whole

What affects our ability to concentrate? I remember once burning me finger. For the next hour or so, I could focus on nothing but the pain in that little finger and could not concentrate on anything else. Does our focus/concentration on getting sick people well cause us to lose our focus/concentration on our objective?
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Re: Chiropractic Gets Sick people Well.

Does that constitute a promise or imply a cure?
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Ui and God

The major premise is pantheistic, God is not pantheism. There is a difference between theism and pantheism. Theism transcends the material.
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Our Chiropractic Philosophy V. THE Chiropractic Objective

The former takes a lifetime of study and is wrought with potential for error. I have made some, bJ more because he wrote more. THE Objective can be summed up in one sentence. OSC is the chiropractic philosophy based upon years of study and/of the 33 principles. TSC is based upon the writings of BJ,DD ... Read more
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Intersectional Policy

A new phrase to describe what is really an attempt to bring together different world an life viewpoints under the same umbrella. It is really an attempt to legitimatize all, viewpoints, even those we would traditionally oppose. What’s the difference between that and chiropractors opposing other W&L viewpoints like immunization and other “health” programs.
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"Fractious" Chiropractic

Definition: tending to be troublesome,unruly, quarrelsome,irritable. Boy if that does not describe chiropractic, I don’t know what does? It does not reach the level of violence…. yet.
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God and the ui/ii controversy

Some years ago 2 Christian women came to my office and told me that they had been to a chiropractor who had explained that universal intelligence/innate intelligence were equivalent to God within man. I knew that the ultimate source of that belief came from D.D. and B.J. Palmer. Before dismissing chiropractic as a cult or ... Read more
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