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Most non-East Asian people think that Chinese medicine is superstition. In fact, a lot of self-proclaimed scientists in Hong Kong do not believe it neither. Some medical doctors despise and deny it as they see traditional Chinese medicine practitioners as financial rivals.
But what find particularly upsetting when I was dealing with wildlife conservation issues because of comments like "Rhinos are going to die because of this fucking superstition." and "Fuck ignorant people no science but only superstition."
This is also initiated by WWF's "this is not proven by science" in their articles.
But no, Chinese medicine is not superstition. Although there are certainly a lot of hoaxes that flies around (usually selling items from endangered/ rare animals, uneasily obtained parts), there is this real stuff that works for centuries.
Unfortunately, Western science is not complete and cannot explain it.
However, after Japan and Hong Kong put huge amount of efforts, more and more Chinese medicine theories are becoming scientifically proven nowadays.
Even acupuncture spots receive Latin names these days.
My university, one of the top 100 universities worldwide, has a dedicated Chinese medicine department near to its biology department. And has a full curriculum of Chinese medicine degrees from bachelors and so on.
Yet, there are still so much that is unknown to science.
"Why do so many people believe in this shit when it's not scientifically proven?"
This is a difficult question to answer. My only reply is that science is not complete. But then, this would probably make me look like a complete fool or lunatic to Westerners.
(A lot of people are science-believers, instead of knowing what science really is. Problem is, this is basically somewhat 80% of high school students. Real natural sciences college students are rare.)
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Point is, I don't know how to convince these angry people on facebook.
I don't know how to summarize what's above into a short facebook comment, but I really want to tell these people that they are the real ignorant ones, not us.
I really want people to respect and know that it's not superstition.
Most non-East Asian people think that Chinese medicine is superstition. In fact, a lot of self-proclaimed scientists in Hong Kong do not believe it neither. Some medical doctors despise and deny it as they see traditional Chinese medicine practitioners as financial rivals.
But what find particularly upsetting when I was dealing with wildlife conservation issues because of comments like "Rhinos are going to die because of this fucking superstition." and "Fuck ignorant people no science but only superstition."
This is also initiated by WWF's "this is not proven by science" in their articles.
But no, Chinese medicine is not superstition. Although there are certainly a lot of hoaxes that flies around (usually selling items from endangered/ rare animals, uneasily obtained parts), there is this real stuff that works for centuries.
Unfortunately, Western science is not complete and cannot explain it.
However, after Japan and Hong Kong put huge amount of efforts, more and more Chinese medicine theories are becoming scientifically proven nowadays.
Even acupuncture spots receive Latin names these days.
My university, one of the top 100 universities worldwide, has a dedicated Chinese medicine department near to its biology department. And has a full curriculum of Chinese medicine degrees from bachelors and so on.
Yet, there are still so much that is unknown to science.
"Why do so many people believe in this shit when it's not scientifically proven?"
This is a difficult question to answer. My only reply is that science is not complete. But then, this would probably make me look like a complete fool or lunatic to Westerners.
(A lot of people are science-believers, instead of knowing what science really is. Problem is, this is basically somewhat 80% of high school students. Real natural sciences college students are rare.)
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Point is, I don't know how to convince these angry people on facebook.
I don't know how to summarize what's above into a short facebook comment, but I really want to tell these people that they are the real ignorant ones, not us.
I really want people to respect and know that it's not superstition.