A new thread about a series of papers in legitimate scientific journals, all from the same author. These papers have all been peer-reviewed, but no editor or peer reviewer noticed a huge problem. Warning: this might make your jaw drop.
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When you boil it all down, the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine are nothing more than Asian variants of the the four humors. We have no problem mocking humoral "theory," and I have no problem mocking the five elements as nothing more than more of the same.
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Plus, it has no real unified form older than around 1960 when Mao got really keen on it. It most certainly is not the unchanged wisdom of the ancients.
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Actually, Mao got keen on it at least 10 years earlier than that. His creation, promotion, and export of what we now know as "traditional Chinese medicine" was, unfortunately, a great success and an early example of "integrative medicine."https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …
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