Blog

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 CCE and the Civil War

Perhaps as the United States took a great leap forward after the 4 year retardation of the War Between the States, our profession will take a giant leap forward if we can somehow get past the retardation that has befallen our profession as a result of the CCE.
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Quote

We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.- Nathaniel Greene, general of the Delaware state Continental Army,in the War for Independence.
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Prescribing Drugs

the practice of medicine is valuable when it serves it’s true purpose, addressing limitations of matter. But when its use is a manifestation of the outside in below up worldview, it is dangerous. Medical doctors, who have an ADIO world and life viewpoint, should be the only ones allowed to give drugs. Unfortunately it is ... Read more
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Barack Obama, the CCE and Chiropractic

Barak Obama is the most brilliant man in the history of our country. He has developed a way of destroying or circumventing every major principle that this country was founded upon and a means of selling his ideas to the majority of the country (twice). That takes a pretty smart man (or a pretty dumb ... Read more
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Quote

The root (the philosophy)is downward, the production (success) is upward and outward. The deeper the roots go, the greater the production.- Joe Strauss
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Agendas

Everyone has or should have an agenda. For some people it consists solely of getting out of bed in the morning, after that, ”whatever will be will be”. For some it’s 15 to 20 things to do in the course of the day and a time frame in which to do them. For some others ... Read more
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Objective and Philosophy

The objective of chiropractic is the overall picture. The philosophy is a detailed description of the colors and objects, the different parts that make it up, give meaning to, purpose for, and define the picture. The objective is the forest, the philosophy, the trees. Want to have a different objective? Fine, just don’t call it ... Read more
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Thought

Mechanism and naturalism do not so much maintain that concepts like innate intelligence do not exist but that they need not exist.
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An example of true leadership:

After Gettysburg Lee took the blame and in so doing created a refuge for those officers under him. He could have offered some legitimate excuses, a. His right arm, Jackson, died a month before at Chancellorsville. b. His eyes, Stuart’s cavalry, was off gallivanting around Carlisle. c. He had a bad case of diarrhea. True. ... Read more
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Extinction

We are only one generation away from extinction as a profession if the next generation of chiropractors have no understanding of chiropractic, at least not an understanding by virtue of their educational experience.
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