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Re:Tobacco and Psychosis: not quite a smoking gun by meowface on Sunday October 25, 2015 @10:34PM (#10449347)
The Wikipedia article for it shows only skepticism regarding it, with no professional sources arguing for its existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi#Scientific_view

Could you show the evidence to the contrary?

Also, potentially beneficial effects of acupuncture do not imply anything about the existence of qi.

Re:Tobacco and Psychosis: not quite a smoking gun by djtriptych on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:09PM (#10452744)
Depends on what you mean by existence? Detectable by modern instrumentation? What if Qi is an extremely useful system of mental organization, allowing practitioners to fine-tune their own body's operation. There is plenty of evidence that this is possible (see mindfullness / trancendental meditation) which have concrete isomorphisms (so to speak) to the concept of Qi.