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.
Retracing
| Thinking Straight | 51 Comments
Retracing is not an objective straight chiropractic phenomena. While it does address a legitimate chiropractic concept, that is, the body may go through stages in restoring normal function, when and if the nerve interference is removed, the physiological manifestations may be a product of limitations of matter, not a function of the forces of the intelligence ... Read more
Read More Losers
| Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
Losers are not people who fail, we all fail. Losers are people who do not do anything about their failures.
Read More DIS-EASE Q&A #46
| Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 17 Comments
How do we measure DIS-EASE, are their degrees of DIS-EASE?
Read More The Age of Reason
| Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
Living in the so-called “age of reason “necessitates having something ,an apriori statement, from which to reason. Otherwise “unreason” is just as valid as reason and anyone’s reasoning will suffice.
Read More Knowing Our Philosop[hy
| Thinking Straight, Thoughts
You do not truly know a concept of chiropractic philosophy unless you cannot forget it.
Read More Intelligent Design
| Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
As the Delaware River winds its way through the mountains along the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, it forms a gap aptly called the Delaware Water Gap. At a certain point on Interstate 80, one can see the vague profile of a Native American face cut into the mountain by the forces of nature. My kids would look for ... Read more
Read More Pseudoscience
| Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
Pseudo: fake or false – a lie Science – the search for truth by a systematic study of the physical world. Examples of pseudoscience or lies about the physical world: 1. Vaccination prevents disease. No need to explain the mechanism and why this statement is false. 2. Drugs cure disease. Same as #1 above. 3. Chiropractic ... Read more
Read More Results
| Thinking Straight | 81 Comments
Results are meaningful to people who have little or no knowledge of chiropractic. That may be satisfactory for lay people. But chiropractors who talk about (“miracle”) results are only showing their ignorance of the depth, breadth and the objective of chiropractic.
Read More Philosophy vs Science
| Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 15 Comments
It’s not that philosophy and science are not compatible. It’s that philosophy and pseudoscience are incompatible and there’s a whole lot of pseudoscience out there.
Read More The 33 Principles
| Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
Can one of the 33 principles contradict or negate another one?
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