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Empiricism depends upon observation, experience and pragmatism. It works well for medicine because the very nature of medicine is based upon the greatest good for the greatest number not the greatest good for evey individual. If empirical research and the subsequent experience shows that 95% of people are helped by a procedure or drug and ... Read more

What does it mean when we say that the existence of the innate brain is actual but its location is theoretical?

While it is not always easy to identify an ADIO viewpoint and to differentiate it from an outside-in one, there are certain characteristics of that viewpoint and character qualities of its adherants that can be identified with world views. When someone is described by certain terms, it gives us a good indication as to what world and ... Read more

Unless and until we entirely leave the therapeutic model and not try to address disease, its cause, or its prevention or in any way associate LACVS with it, we will be in no-man’s land. We will have no argument against the need for diagnosis. To say that we need to be able to rule out or ... Read more

Discussing the above two areas of study is like comparing apples and oranges. Newtonian physics is based upon empirical information.  Quantum physics is, at best, rationalism (in this case, using inductive reasoning). At worst, it may be faith masquerading as science. So why does science openly embrace the quantum model but reject chiropractic as unscientific when it is no less so ... Read more

Thomas Sowell, in his book Intellectuals and Society, speaks of the “optional reality in the media and academia.”  This is his way of describing their unique world and life viewpoint which slips into the media’s and history’s designation of events or omits events and facts that are not favorable to their view. In describing the lack ... Read more

Eating good food is better than eating bad food. Don’t know the difference? Don’t ask me, I have enough trouble trying to figure it out for my own body.

If the rights of the fetus take precedence over or are equal to the rights of the mother and the government should be charged with the responsibility of protecting those rights by legislation, then it is entirely possible that the government will one day decide what a pregnant woman can eat, drink, who can deliver ... Read more

Most people going to a chiropractor have some sort of problem. Sometimes those being referred to my office actually relate minor complaints that they would ordinarily ignore because they think that they must have one to be seen by the chiropractor. They are so caught up in the outside-in thinking, they cannot conceive of the idea that chiropractors take care ... Read more

Most people going to a chiropractor have some sort of problem. Sometimes those being referred to my office actually relate minor complaints that they would ordinarily ignore because they think that they must have one to be seen by the chiropractor. They are so caught up in the outside-in thinking, they cannot conceive of the idea that chiropractors take care ... Read more