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.
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.
Can one of the 33 principles contradict or negate another one?
Why were many chiropractors, B.J. included, initially against the idea of licensure for chiropractors and why did they apparently change their minds?
You cannot keep the power of incorrect thinking under control unless the majority, or at least a significant percentage of the people of a nation, community, organization or group making the decisions adhere to correct thinking. Limiting incorrect thinking is why our country originally wanted to limit the voting franchise to male citizens, 21 years or older, who owned property … Read more
A single entity can be both a cause and an effect but they are not one and the same. The effect is not the cause of itself. Outside -in thinking maintains they can be one and the same.
When it comes to our philosophy there are two opposing schools of thought- those who want to expand the philosophy and those who want to expand our understanding of the philosophy. To determine which group you belong to, you must fall back on your objective-correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the forces of the innate intelligence … Read more
David Koch, D.C. in his philosophy text makes a distinction between metanatural and supernatural. Some do not like that distinction and cite DD’s, BJ’s and RWS’s use of supernatural terms like God to describe what Koch would call metanatural phenomena, universal and innate intelligence. I have no problem with David’s distinction and in fact it may … Read more
RE:PRACTICE MEMBERS, When the rate of forgetting exceeds the rate of learning, you have lost them.
There is a place for whole brain thinking. Intuition and creativity have their place. They are not to be used, however, where there are standards, absolutes and established and proper ways of doing things, or where there is an authority unless they are functioning within the guidelines of that authority. We must have authority or else … Read more