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<blockquote data-quote="ChrisSamsDad" data-source="post: 1265012" data-attributes="member: 13978"><p>Well, that's not actually true in the case of Chinese Medicine, it was mostly made up by the Chinese Communists as a way of avoiding any cultural influence from the west (this is a great article about it: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/10/traditional_chinese_medicine_origins_mao_invented_it_but_didn_t_believe.html" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/10/traditional_chinese_medicine_origins_mao_invented_it_but_didn_t_believe.html</a> ) , and anyway, just because something has been around a long time, doesn't mean it's better, in fact, usually not - they used to treat people as if illnesses were all due to imbalances of the humours, demonic posession or witchcraft, and it mostly ended up being ineffective, the whole point of scientific endeavour is to find the truth by removing human bias - beliefs, assumptions, stupidity etc. In the case of modern medicine, the right way to think of it is as 'evidence-based medicine' - and who in their right mind wouldn't want that? </p><p></p><p>OK, it's not perfect, but the way to improve it is by better, more rigorous science, not just making something up and asking people's opinion if they feel better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChrisSamsDad, post: 1265012, member: 13978"] Well, that's not actually true in the case of Chinese Medicine, it was mostly made up by the Chinese Communists as a way of avoiding any cultural influence from the west (this is a great article about it: [URL]http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/10/traditional_chinese_medicine_origins_mao_invented_it_but_didn_t_believe.html[/URL] ) , and anyway, just because something has been around a long time, doesn't mean it's better, in fact, usually not - they used to treat people as if illnesses were all due to imbalances of the humours, demonic posession or witchcraft, and it mostly ended up being ineffective, the whole point of scientific endeavour is to find the truth by removing human bias - beliefs, assumptions, stupidity etc. In the case of modern medicine, the right way to think of it is as 'evidence-based medicine' - and who in their right mind wouldn't want that? OK, it's not perfect, but the way to improve it is by better, more rigorous science, not just making something up and asking people's opinion if they feel better. [/QUOTE]
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