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why does a search lead me to an article with the exact opposite story? http://www.china.org.cn/china/2020-02/19/content_75720773.htm http://www.china.org.cn/chi
by dakom 7y ago
why does a search lead me to an article with the exact opposite story? http://www.china.org.cn/china/2020-02/19/content_75720773.htm http://www.china.org.cn/china/2020-02/19/content_75720773.ht...
- true_religion 7y agoTaiwan isn’t Mainland China. The first source is from Taiwan, the 2nd from China. It’s up to you to choose which news source to believe, knowing that the former can print anything (including wild speculation) and the later will only print government approved information (including blatant obvious propaganda).
- baybal2 7y agoIt's quite tortuously contorted. He said he was proposing to launch proper clinical trials for "herbal remedies," dodging a request to give his blessing.
- dakom 7y agoSo the real story is he proposed doing scientifically valid testing, which could easily disprove their efficacy - and that somehow turned into "the experiments give some hope for the treatment of the novel coronavirus" ... due to a bad English translation?
- chalst 7y agoNo, the story is that he wants yes-men on the panel that assesses their efficacy, not independent scientists.
- dakom 7y agoSorry - I am having trouble following this. You're saying Xi Jinping wanted yes-men in order to push the herbal remedies, and Zhong Nanshan wanted real science?
- baybal2 7y ago> ... due to a bad English translation? Not simply bad, but like a 180⁰ of the original meaning. Well, there is rich context to this. Chinese mainland media has been for weeks escalating the "herbal remedies" craze, and Xi somehow managed to insert himself even there. Now the media (propaganda ministry) can't back off, because Xi will look like an idiot if they are to back off and acknowledge how foolish it is. For Zhong, a man with a known anti-quackery sentiment, not speaking in single voice with CPC's herbal remedy peddlers, was enough to be seen as somebody not standing in line.
- dakom 7y agoGotcha, thanks for the breakdown! What a world...
- netsharc 7y agohttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/08/31/china-is-ramping-up-its-promotion-of-its-ancient-medical-arts https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/08/31/china-is-rampin... Apparently not just weeks, but for a long time. Imagine if homeopathy became a point of something the government says we have to see as cultural/national pride. And is prescribed by doctors/hospitals because of that, and scientific analysis has to show the results that also reflect that...
- usrusr 7y agoCompare the dates, three weeks are an eternity in this mess.
- Anthony-G 7y agoTo quote the article, > TCM has never missed a single fight against epidemics throughout Chinese history. TCM classics have provided sufficient evidence of how TCM cured epidemic diseases such as smallpox over the past several thousand years. I don't have any reason to trust an article from a Taiwanese publication over one from the PRC but the above quote leaves me highly sceptical about the rest of the article.