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Re:Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by S... by nsoonhui on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:10PM (#44555404)
A lot of scientists dabbled into pseudoscience but that doesn't invalidate their scientific accomplishment, and their scientific achievement doesn't validate their pseudoscientific pursuit
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Re:Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by S... by dkarl on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:27PM (#44555534)
> doesn't validate their pseudoscientific pursuit

If you take an idea with a pseudoscientific origin, and you test it in a sound scientific way, you're doing science, not pseudoscience.

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Re:Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by S... by mgh2 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:59PM (#44555739)
I am sure there are some truths in some thousand years of research, ala "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater", but that doesn't validate the system or study as a whole.
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