72. "To reduce traditional chinese medicine to superstition based on" In response to In response to 69
the example of some ppl killing rhinos for their horns is only demonstrating how little you know abt what actually chinese medicine is...traditional chinese medicine is made up of a variety of practices that consists of acupuncture/qi qong/diet/massage/tai chi
I don't think you realize how your attitude (misinformation) reflects the eurocentric thinking that dismisses any system that isn't based on western traditions or isn't "science-based"
If you understood the fact that much of chinese medicine will ALWAYS fall out of the scope of western scientific methods...such as herbs because it can't be explained on a biochemical level but even western physicians in the US are now slowly coming around to admitting the health benefits of medicinal herbs...just like the west finally came around to admitting that acupuncture is more than just a placebo...and I'll say it to you again: just because doctors in the west finally came around to admitting the benefits of acupuncture and now is being practiced here in the west doesn't mean IT DIDN'T WORK beforehand for thousands of years in China in treating ppl w/blood-flow problems
Here's whats so ironic abt you reducing all of traditional chinese medicine to superstition and quackery because it doesn't fall under the purview of western science...but then when you look at modern medicine (pharmaceutical drugs in particular) which is science-based it is doing far more harm to ppl and isn't curing ppl of anything...in fact, taking these drugs are leaving ppl in a worse condition, sometimes even causing addiction and even death, than before they took the medication
This doesn't say much for "science" at all...so what makes this form of modern medicine any better than superstition...because its almost as if the medical establishment is experimenting on ppl to perfect these pharmaceutical drugs
Oh and what abt how our advanced modern science-based medicine is still using animals for testing which sbould be viewed as archaic
>and they're killing endangered rhinos because they believe >the horns, which are made of nothing but fucking keratin make >men more virile.