This is a favorite trope of traditional Chinese medicine believers, namely that if you criticize the mystical pseudoscience of acupuncture or other TCM practices as quackery you’re a racist. 1/ https://t.co/U9YXcBNzcI
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Of course, little known is how Chairman Mao Zedong retconned the history of Chinese folk medicine to create TCM. 3/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …
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Indeed, 100 years ago acupuncture resembled crude bloodletting more than anything else. 4/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-reality-of-ancient-wisdom-acupuncture-and-tcm-werent-so-great/ …
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In 1822 an edict banned acupuncture practice and teaching from the Imperial Medical Institute in China, and the practice was banned in Japan in 1876 and finally outlawed in China in 1929. 5/
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In the 1930s a Chinese pediatrician named Cheng Dan’an proposed that acupuncture be resurrected because he thought its actions could be explained by neurology. He also replaced the previously used coarse needles with the filiform needles in use today. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/04/what-department-of-family-medicine-university-of-michigan-teaches-acupuncture/ …
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Bottom line: Acupuncture is not ancient. It is a theatrical placebo, nothing more. 7/7
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