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.
Thought
Thinking Straight, Thoughts
|Science is not simply a matter of observing facts. Every scientific theory is based upon and expresses a worldview, either ADIO or OIBU.
Read More Coercion
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight, Thoughts
|Do you really think the gun control people will be satisfied with only stopping gun shows or the pro-life people will be satisfied with only stopping partial birth abortions or the mixers will be satisfied with only closing one non-therapeutic chiropractic school, not allowing any others to be opened and trying to coerce the remaining ... Read more
Read More Almost Nothing New Under the Sun
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|Chiropractic is based upon the principle that the body has an inborn, living matter-organizing mechanism. It has been around since the beginning of creation. The principle that chiropractic corrects spinal interference to the expression of that mechanism was around just as long. The discovery of that principle by man apparently did not occur until 1895.
Read More Sincerity
Thinking Straight, Thoughts
|Sincerity is often merely an excuse for stupidity.
Read More Why We Do What We Do
Thinking Straight
|So many are abandoning the correction of vertebral subluxation, that while many chiropractors say they are still into vertebral subluxation correction I think we now have to make it clear why we correct them. The CCE model appears to leave that up to the individual to decide. The individual can assuage his guilt by pretending ... Read more
Read More Speaking Engagements
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|On two occasions I have had the opportunity to speak on the subject of diagnosis at CCE colleges and that served to add to my list of school campuses on which I am not allowed. I think on my curriculum vitae(cv) under the “honors received” section I should list those chiropractic colleges where I am ... Read more
Read More Bureaucracy
Thinking Straight
|We now have a fourth and an unelected branch of government. It is the bureaucracy and today you are 10 times more likely to be adjudicated by it than you are in a real court of law. The perfect example of that is the CCE and for the most part its lackeys, the state boards.
Read More "Your Soul is full of Gunk, Mr. Grinch"
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Did you ever wonder how some people just will not accept the simple logical truth of our chiropractic philosophy no matter how well or how often it is explained to them, both lay person and other chiropractors? It was one of the most frustrating parts of my practice and teaching. This principle even holds true ... Read more
Read More IFCO, ICA, ACA
Student & New Practitioner, Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|Independent voters are primarily people who are out for themselves and whichever party promises them the most is the side they will vote for or support, rather than the one that represents their/a correct political philosophy. Perhaps we can apply this principle to chiropractors. Do you belong to a state or national organization because they ... Read more
Read More Quote
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|It takes 4 years of college and then preferably a masters degree to say, “I don’t know anything rather than I don’t know nothing.”-Howard Hendricks
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