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.
Guilt and Mixing
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Is the failure of and the mixing that occurs from “getting sick people well’ the result of a guilt complex?
Read More Whatever happened to Joy Loban, D.C?
Thinking Straight
|I know what history records (THE X-RAY ISSUE) but if he was ENOUGH a devotee to be addressed in the Green Books, what caused his change in philosophy and subsequent departure from PSC and BJ?
Read More Creation
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Creation by natural means involves, is accomplished by, the application of one of the natural laws or principles which may be part of our chiropractic philosophy. The creation of those laws or principles out of nothing is not natural but requires a supernatural action. “Natural creation” is not out of nothing but from something, natural ... Read more
Read More Can research and chiropractic philosophy co-exist/
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|No! Not if the “philosophy” is traditional chiropractic (getting sick people well). They represent different objectives and make it an either/or situation.
Read More Universal Intelligence and God
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|I can understand how BJ and many chiropractors (incorrectly) understood (and still do) the concept of universal intelligence as God. They understand as he did that there are principles derived from the Major Premise that are greater than the educated intelligence of a human being. However, BJ like the rest of us mortals, could deduce ... Read more
Read More The Major Premise
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|If we think that a principle (No. 1) holds the universe together, you are not even close to understanding chiropractic.
Read More Faith
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|You cannot understand chiropractic by deductive reasoning unless you first accept the Major Premise and you cannot do that except by faith. Granted, it is a small leap based upon the plethora of empirical evidence but a leap nevertheless, even if one uses inductive reasoning.
Read More Chiropractic Apologetics
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|Definition:systematic argumentative discourse in defense ( of a body of principles in a body of knowledge or belief). The systematic body of principles includes the concepts of darkness and light, heat and cold, sound and silence. They demonstrate an entity and the absence of that entity which is created by removing the measurable effects of ... Read more
Read More Kicking Crocodiles.
Thinking Straight | 9 Comments
|Kicking a dead crocodile is like adding a therapy to the chiropractic adjustment. Giving a therapy instead of an adjustment is like kicking a live one.
Read More Scientific Research
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|The role of science is in increasing the materialistic philosophy and destroying the chiropractic/vitalistic/philosophical one.
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