Phil McCary

I am a Doctor of Chiropractic. My goal is to get you better and back to your life as quickly as possible. University of Washington Alum.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

The primary goal of every government is to remain in power. All other goals run downstream of that.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

WHAAAT??!!

[NCAA Track & Field @NCAATrackField]

JA'KOBE THARP ARE YOU KIDDING ME 🤯 12.75

✅ NCAA RECORD
✅ WORLD RECORD

#NCAATF x 🎥 ESPN / @AuburnTFXC

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Sorry world, it’s called soccer now.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@minakimes @adaptSkill Perhaps a wicked cowlick? Maybe he can’t help it.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@SeattleCigars I’m curious, what would be the proper way to teach it? Even someone with my KingCo Special Teams Honorable mention pedigree doesn’t know ;-)

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

You gotta realize that if you embrace all the awesome stuff about America, we will not just embrace you back, we will *adopt you as one of us*. I'd give this guy a green card tomorrow, no questions asked. He's American as apple pie, hell yeah brother.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@HolmerNoah Around 90 minutes has always been the line for me. Under that, just run.

[Joel Lopez | Save Your Marriage @TheeJoelLopez]

@tyromper It wrecked me for 3 days.

The Twitter dads:

[Cullen Roche @cullenroche]

Embracing parenthood is an act of radical optimism. Every generation had an existential crisis and a million reasons to fear bringing children into the world.

Imagine cavemen saying: "Honey, should we have kids? 50% of us die during birth, 25% die from dirty water, and the rest live in fear of murder by the next tribe."

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The FBI had boxes full of serial killer confessions they couldn’t actually use.

Hours of interviews.
Detailed admissions.
Direct conversations with some of the most violent men in America.

And none of it was scientifically useful.

Then a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse walked into Quantico and changed criminal investigation forever.

Her name was Ann Burgess.

1975.

FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas had spent months traveling across the country interviewing imprisoned serial killers. They believed understanding offenders could help solve future crimes.

But when Ann Burgess listened to the tapes, she immediately saw the problem.

“This isn’t research,” she told them.
“These are just stories.”

The room went silent.

“You’re asking them to talk about themselves,” she said. “But every interview is different. There’s no structure. No methodology. You can’t compare one offender to another.”

Then she asked a question nobody else in the room had thought to ask:

“Tell me about the women they killed.”

Not the killers.

The victims.

Who were they?
How old were they?
Where were they approached?
What made them vulnerable?
How did the offender gain control?

The agents were confused.

Ann Burgess explained something revolutionary:

“If you truly study the victims, you’ll understand the offender.”

At the time, Burgess was already a groundbreaking trauma researcher. In 1974, she had co-authored one of the first major studies proving rape caused lasting psychological trauma — at a time when courts barely acknowledged it.

She helped create the term “rape trauma syndrome.”

Now she brought that same scientific rigor to the FBI.

She redesigned the interviews.
Created structured questionnaires.
Introduced victimology as the foundation of profiling.
Distinguished between a killer’s “MO” and their “signature.”
Mapped escalation patterns.
Explained that sexual violence was about power and control — not desire.

Suddenly, the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit had something it had never truly possessed before:

Methodology.

And it worked.

In 1983, young boys began disappearing in Nebraska.

Using Burgess’s framework, investigators built a profile:
A young white male.
Slight build.
Someone trusted around children.
Likely connected to scouting or youth activities.
A person who kept souvenirs and detective magazines.

Police arrested John Joubert.

The profile was astonishingly accurate.

Almost overnight, criminal profiling became legitimate law enforcement science.

And yet most of the credit went elsewhere.

The public celebrated the FBI agents.
Books were written.
Movies and television series followed.

Ann Burgess became a footnote.

When Netflix released Mindhunter, they based a character on her — but changed nearly everything.

They made her a psychologist instead of a nurse.
Changed her personal life entirely.
Most viewers never even realized she was based on a real person.

Meanwhile, the real Ann Burgess kept working.

Teaching.
Publishing.
Consulting.
Testifying in court.
Training professionals around the world.

More than 150 academic publications.
Multiple landmark books.
Decades of pioneering work.

And through all of it, one truth remained:

Modern criminal profiling exists in large part because a psychiatric nurse walked into a room full of FBI agents and told them they were asking the wrong questions.

Not:
“Why did the killer do this?”

But:

“Who were the victims?”

That shift changed criminal investigation forever.

Ann Burgess is 88 years old now.

Still teaching.
Still working.
Still brilliant.

And finally receiving recognition not as a side character in someone else’s story —

But as herself.

The woman who taught the FBI how to truly understand predators by first understanding the people they harmed.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"For there's nothing as powerful or as great
As when a husband & wife, united by oneness of mind in their thinking,
Keep their home together—a great bane to their enemies,
A blessing to their friends, & their renown is on everyone's lips.”

Odysseus' great praise of marriage.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@AcropolisJr @coker_UDub Damn, y’all gotta cool it. Getting crazy in here!

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@theficouple @JoshuaLisec One summer with our baby 😢. If we only understood how precious it was

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

So what did Vikings really look like?
TV/movies tell us they looked like dollar-store biker gangs, wearing black leather, covered in dirt and allergic to colours... but in reality... they looked like 1970s pop singers.

Seriously, thread time.🧵

Photo: Roberto Fortuna

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

This day in history...
Chris Solinsky runs 26:59 at #PaytonJordan to break the 10K American record by 13 seconds!
🔑 https://t.co/opJH1a7zTa

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@ShokzUSA The Battle - Gladiator Soundtrack

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@Empty_America 🤣

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Phil McCary @drphilpdx]

@JasonFitz1 @theryandreyer I’m leaning more and more towards exercise + myofascial release > stretching.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.