--- Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
Going for the "irony thick and sticky enough to suck
the boots right off
your feet" award, are we?
I was rather proud of the "UK has a substantial English-speaking population" bit, myself, but others are free to pick their own favorites. My own personal favorite remains this little piece of tutelage by Andy Lih re TCM :
It's fascinating that AC can accuse folks (who advocate a balance and coexistence of East and West) of "breathtaking ethnocentrism." At the same time, AC implies that only the West was capable of a scientific process in medicine. (And again, no sources or attribution for these views). I suppose for those thousands of years that TCM was practiced, there was no exploration into new substances, no evaluation of outcomes, no experimentation in quantities of doses, no conversation between practitioner and patient, and no observation that the patient was, well, dead or alive...
:) Stevertigo
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