Some years ago I presented a paper for discussion at a conference questioning whether chiropractic really is a health care profession. At the time I was not adamant about the idea nor was I crusading for a change in the public viewpoint of chiropractic. I am still not a crusader for the issue but apparently … Read more
David Koch,DC in his well written 2008 text Contemporary Chiropractic Philosophy An Introduction gives us some insight into the 33 principles. He divides them into universal principles, 14 in number, biological principles 16 in number and chiropractic principles, three in number. I have some disagreement with his editing and rearranging of the 33 principles,a discussion … Read more
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth. Most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”- Winston Churchill
I think people who enjoy practicing chiropractic go out and build practices by seeing lots of people. Those who don’t get into chiropractic politics usually in order to bring everyone down to their level of dissatisfaction. David Gray, IV DC.
The 33 Principles do not teach us what is assumed we already know. They just state the (hopefully) obvious. We may learn the effects of the 33 principles like we learn an effect of the law of gravity the first time we fall down and skin our knee. But we do not have to learn … Read more
The only equality in life is the presence of the innate intelligence of the body. It is the same, 100% in all human beings. Just so that does not create pride or promote socialism, we see that it is also 100% in every plant and animal, in every living thing. Its expression is dependent upon the … Read more
If the information gained from an x-ray significantly outweighs the harm ionizing radiation does, it is justified. Agreed, but how do we know what and how much harm it is doing? It is my understanding that the conflict of this issue caused the departure of one of BJ’s most popular and effective philosophy instructors when … Read more
Which demonstrates the greater reality, our philosophy established by our principles through reason and deduction or that which is established by our research through empirical information gained by the senses? Most people would say the latter because they believe that philosophy and the deductive method are only one step above faith and faith is believed … Read more
Jubilee def.-a year of emancipation and restoration…..by the emancipation of slaves… I believe that BJ was looking forward to the year of true Jubilee when all chiropractors would be freed from the slavery of being shackled to the medical model of merely “getting sick people well,” free to correct vertebral subluxations in order to enable … Read more
Mechanism and naturalism do no so much maintain that innate intelligence does not exist but, more important, that it need not exist. That may be our major point of disagreement in our world and life viewpoints.