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Hope and change does not solve problems unless we know that the hope is confidence in principle and the change is based upon that principle.

There is a greater reality than empiricism. The reality of chiropractic has little to do with empirical knowledge, what we feel, see, or what people generally perceive as reality. It is not based upon experience although that is what most people base their reality upon. Every chiropractor who adjusts an asymptomatic person, infant,or an animal ... Read more

The importance, the uniqueness and the difference of the OSC approach in chiropractic care is for non-symptomatic people, those without a medical condition but with vertebral subluxation. Does the objective of “getting sick people well” and the activities surrounding that objective (like the diagnosis of and research into affecting medical conditions) undermine that approach/intention/importance? Remind ... Read more

The innate intelligence of the body will take any utilizable force whether introduced by the straightest of chiropractors, the greatest of mixers or an accident and create an adjustment. Therefore it is the intention of the chiropractor that defines and and justifies us as a profession that is at issue, not the adjustment.

The first time a chiropractor said that “chiropractic gets sick people well” we missed the opportunity to explain our unique objective to the public and every time thereafter we supported and reinforced the misconception that chiropractic was just another therapeutic approach until now we apparently believe it ourselves.

In a small African village, the story is told that a woman went to the river to wash clothes and was attacked and killed by a large crocodile.  A couple of  European hunters stalked and eventually killed it, cut it open, confirming that it was indeed the same beast. They dragged it up on the ... Read more

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, we don’t have to make the mixers see the light, we just need to make them feel the heat. They felt the heat from SCSC, PCSC and SCASA.  They have never felt it since then.

I recall after leaving the presidency of ADIO, I informally sat down with Dr. Thom Gelardi and he shared with me that he was considering Dr. Jim Healey for the position. My first reaction was that Jim was a young, recent graduate with no practice experience. I mistakenly thought that experience in chiropractic practice was necessary ... Read more

False concepts often work their way into truth surreptitiously as clearly concocted myths as the Apostle Peter calls them in 2 Peter 1:16 (literal Greek translation). Myths that are intended to draw you away from the truth. It is usually based on some truth or fact. I will not go into the Biblical background of ... Read more

Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. Theodosius Dobzhinsky Evolutionary biology is, of course, the scientific foundation for all biology, and biology is the foundation for all medicine. Randolph M. Nesse and Gorge C. Williams