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 Secret of My Success

1% is my God given talent-that’s grace 98.5% is the fantastic innate intelligence of the practic member’s body-that’s a gift to them. .5% is the technique I learned and earned-that’s sometthing I paid for in time and money. Less than 1% is based upon my own efforts.
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Sensory Nerves

Why is it that people only seem to care about their pain when merely 5-10% of their nerves, are sensory nerves. 90 to 95% are functional nerves and we seem to not care about interference with them.
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On Being a Health Care Profession

Chiropractic is unique and arguably  outside the so-called health care professions.  The fact is that a metaphysical aberration, an interference with the transmission of metaphysical,  mental impulses (the 4th criteria of Palmer’s definition) is part of the profession’s objective. That is not only not part of “mainstream health care’s”  professional objective, for the most part they ... Read more
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Germs

What is the medical philosophy (0utside-in viewpoint) concerning germs? Obviously a surgeon’s mask is not going to wipe them out, just reduce their number in the air to a manageable rate. Vaccination is not meant to only give temporary individual immunity but to reduce the number of microorganisms proliferating and being passed around until the ... Read more
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The Contradiction of Science

Science contradicts the origin of life. If we say the universe just is, we are using metaphysics, not science. We might as well say,”In the beginning God….”
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Innate Intelligence

Innate Intelligence is a part of, but apart from, universal intelligence. It is not a creation of universal intelligence. There is no hierachy. So how would you describe innate intelligence?
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An Outside-in World and Life Viewpoint

An outside-in world and life viewpoint is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. You can see the object but your view is limited.
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Repair DNA

How does the concept of Repair DNA affect the idea of evolution and their random mutations?
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Q&A #39

Can we trust someone who teaches nutrition as part of chiropractic and who sees chiropractic as an alternative to medicine to teach a seminar on chiropractic philosophy?
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In Defense of Newton

Newton could study the parts inductively because he already had an overarching Major Premise, which he had deduced, as a result of his Christian faith. His induction merely filled in the details and empirically demonstrated the truths of his deductions.
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