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.
The issue of Public Safety.
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners are part of the bureaucracy and as such are not elected officials. They are charged with the task of being the public protector against the chiropractic profession. In the end they are chiropractors under the influence of powerful chiropractors and organizations who have their own agenda/desires for the future ... Read more
Read More The details of life
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Food is a necessary detail of life, so is chiropractic.How come people are more concerned with the former than the latter?
Read More Dialectics
Thinking Straight
|The purpose of the dialectic method of reasoning is resolution of disagreement through rational discussion, and, ultimately, the search for truth. Dialectic materialism-the combining of the greatest good for the greatest number and its antithesis, the destruction of freedom e.g. Communism and socialism. People living under this system have to be willing to give up ... Read more
Read More A Con Job
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Deceitfully lying, the CCE tells chiropractors that their (the CCE’s) existence will benefit them. The TSCors are being obtuse and vague on the issue. The national TSC organization (ICA)actually supports the CCE.
Read More Traditional Chiropractic and Mixing
Thinking Straight | 6 Comments
|Traditional Chiropractic has historically and will always lead to mixing. There is no way you can mix anything with Objective Chiropractic. When you add anything to chiropractic no matter how good it is or appears to be, it is no longer practicing the (Objective of) Chiropractic. What those “add-ons” are, determines whether you are a ... Read more
Read More Are you spitting on the carpet?
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|The story is told of BJ attending a lecture where a medical doctor was speaking on the subject of “No spit,no consumption.” (for the younger people, consumption is an archaic term for tuberculosis. I remember in 1964, the NYC Subway, on which I rode to chiropractic school every day, still had signs that said “no ... Read more
Read More Animal Souls
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|The animal “soul” is so unlike the human soul that I think it deserves a different name, perhaps “innate intelligence” would be a good choice?
Read More The Master Plan
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|In Pennsylvania chiropractors were originally licensed as Drugless Physicians (circa. 1929) until 1951, when the Chiropractic Registration Act was created by the legislature to regulate chiropractic as a separate and distinct practice. Since then many chiropractors have sought and often succeeded in gaining the right to add what were once considered “drugless physicians” procedures to ... Read more
Read More Soul Life v. Innate Life
Thinking Straight | 17 Comments
|Soul life (if it exists and I personally believe it does) is a theological construct. Biological life is a physiological/metaphysical construct. The latter is a result of a principle (#20) the creation of innate intelligence in all living organisms called the Law of Life (Palmer). The former is a direct, real, but invisible act of ... Read more
Read More Non-chiropractic ADIO viewpoint
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|Check out my ADIO viewpoint on non chiropractic issues by following me on Twitter. Feel free to dialogue with me by e-mail.
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