--- Sean Barrett <sean(a)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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