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Dear Readers. In 1984 I created and was the director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Chiropractic Education (FACE). For 25 years, among its activities, it published the Pivot Review, a philosophical newsletter, my “Blue Books,” and a web page. During that time it also published nine ”position papers” to explain the uniqueness of ... Read more

As a profession we seem to be up in arms about the desire of some within our profession to add the right to prescribe drugs to the practice of chiropractic. Yet we should not be surprised. We should see it as the normal and natural result of our profession’s developing attitude to the practices of ... Read more

Sure, people do get well under chiropractic care. But that is such a minor aspect of what chiropractic does. Unfortunately, we have majored on minors for so long as a profession, we have lost sight of what the major is. The major is what chiropractic does for every man, woman and child every time. It ... Read more

A chiropractor asked the following question:” If a flame (force) is placed under a pot of water (matter) and enough energy/force is supplied by the flame a change in the organization of the matter which composes the water will occur (boiling). If however the water does not boil, is the water the limiting factor where ... Read more

Universal intelligence, innate intelligence and the chiropractic philosophy surrounding them are a focal point within the two world views. If we are totally material then nothing matters but the condition of the matter, the disease.

(4th Friday Philosophy-a week late) “Informed Consent” is an important and necessary aspect of objective straight chiropractic care, however, we understand the term in a different way than most. Medically speaking, “informed consent” means that even if I do everything correctly, there are some possible negative results, i.e., “Do you understand there are possible negative ... Read more

There are no icons in chiropractic as much as some would like to create them. Anyone’s ideas (including D.D.’s, B.J.’s, Reggie’s, mine and others) are open to scrutiny and critical evaluation.

This post should rattle a few cages: You cannot have a thought without words and the use of words requires the use of the educated brain. Therefore, so-called innate thoughts must come from the educated brain.

Why is it that some people have, or claim to have, an ADIO viewpoint but don’t live it? I believe that one reason may be that the concept of separation of church and state (a legitimate concept) has taught us to be inconsistent or double minded. We are also taught that there is nothing wrong with having strong ... Read more

Chiropractic seems to continually move between being a low information, a wrong information and a no information profession. Will we ever get it right?