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Fun fact: Traditional Chinese Medicine is mostly a bunch of useless horseshit. Too bad the great leap didn't totally destroy it.
by UIZealot 7y ago
Fun fact: Traditional Chinese Medicine is mostly a bunch of useless horseshit.
Too bad the great leap didn't totally destroy it.
- missosoup 7y agoInformation should never be destroyed. There is a treasure trove of obsolete but preserved cultural knowledge out there, and China is a bit of a dark spot because of the great leap. Preserving historical knowledge is not the same as perpetuating it or believing it's effective. Keeping a record of what societies did what is extremely important, regardless of whether it worked. If nothing else, so that a particular failed avenue of research isn't pursued again.