Posts by Cecil Burch

I have a deeply ingrained allergic reaction whenever I hear someone in the self-defense world speak in absolutes or with a dogmatic implication that they have all the answers and…

 Every now and then, someone posts a question, either directly to me or on some internet forum I may look at in which they raise the basic question of why…

In the medical field, there is a concept known as the placebo effect. Essentially, if a doctor prescribes a treatment such as a drug for an illness and the drug…