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.
Symptoms, Subluxations and Research.
Thinking Straight
|A subluxation is the physical representation of the cause of DIS-EASE (a metaphysical phenomena? It is the the absence of something-(EASE/coordinated function). Disease, on the other hand is always the presence of one or more of over 18 hundred “somethings”, manifested by signs and or symptoms. (Try going to an m.d. for a diagnosis without ... Read more
Read More The March for Science
Thinking Straight
|Recently a march created by a group of scientists called “The March for Science” was held in Washington, D.C. and in other places in the country. Why do we need a March for Science? Apparently because science like just about everything else has become politicized and cannot stand on facts alone because many facts are ... Read more
Read More Former Penn Straight Board of Trustee Member's Book
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|In his book, Fine Tuning Dean Black, PhD discusses equilibrium and implies that it is death,and it is the natural state of things, that everything is moving in that direction and except for an extra-natural (metaphysical) or supernatural effort that state would occur indicating that there is an innate intelligence in living things that must ... Read more
Read More Success or Failure in Chiropractic?
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|Does the emphasis on getting sick people well and the resultant expenditure of effort (such as research, people changing their techniques all the time and mixing come from the guilt of failure? More important than giving people a chiropractic adjustment is giving them an ADIO world and life viewpoint (WALV). It is like the “giving ... Read more
Read More Thought-TIC v. TORS
Thinking Straight, Thoughts
|All chiropracTORS have the right (to try) to “get sick people well”…it’s just not chiropracTIC.
Read More Q&A #84 What happens to the innate intelligence at the time of death
Thinking Straight
|Reggie’s explanation (in 1st semester philosophy) was that it “went back to” the intelligence of the universe. That is a strictly chiropractic philosophical answer. It is not a theological answer, because in theology the soul, at least in part, encompasses the educated brain (animals have an educated brain but no soul) . So while it ... Read more
Read More The Need for Innate Intelligence
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|Chiropractic deals with metaphysical concepts and physical concepts. Therefore you cannot demonstrate chiropractic merely by the physical… or metaphysical concepts. That’s the beauty, explanation and importance of the Triune.
Read More Confusion in Chiropractic
Thinking Straight | 13 Comments
|We are not responsible for everyone or anyone (for that matter) grasping or accepting chiropractic. We are just responsible for making it clear to everyone. Imagine if we had done that from the beginning of our history?
Read More "Chiropractic" Research
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|So-called “chiropractic research” is merely demonstrating the known chiropractic principle (which encompasses the “33 principles of the Basic Science of chiropractic”). The problem is that unlike combining HCl and NaOH which always give us the same result, H2O and NaCl, all medical and chiropractic research involves living organisms which have so many variables(limitations of time ... Read more
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