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Bill gates was recently talking on TV about how the virus could have mutated from anywhere... there's also swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, yet Jewish and

Bill gates was recently talking on TV about how the virus could have mutated from anywhere... there's also swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, yet Jewish and Muslim people don't go around blaming Mexican/American people for their swine consumption sins (at least they shouldn't). Blaming it on the fact that Chinese people ate Bat meat is as bit culturally prejudicial as calling it the Chinese virus.

seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Chinese medicine has a lot of costs for little if any benefits. Disease from live animals is just one of them, but then their is the medical resources wasted on not really cures, hospital profiteering, and not to mention causing entire species to become endangered or even extinct. Peer review and control study the stuff that works and call it normal medicine, the rest of the folk cures might as well be homeopathy. Blame Mao for calling this junk Chinese medicine in the first place, before he pushed forward the concept to make up for a lack of real medical resources, it was all just a bunch of disparate folk cures in and around the country.
- chrischen 7y ago
  I did some research on bats vs pangolins. It seems that pangolins are illegal in China and sometimes used for medicine (though I'm not sure if consuming them raw is a part of it). I think the practice of illegal animal trading of pangolins is a separate issue altogether from just consuming non beef/pork/chicken food that we're used to. However from what I can tell the consumption of bats, while uncommon, is just as a normal food source: https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-eat-bats?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-eat-bats?share=1. Though some consider wild animals in general as aphrodisiacs. > Peer review and control study the stuff that works and call it normal medicine, the rest of the folk cures might as well be homeopathy. Chinese medicine is also practiced in Taiwan, and while the system differs from the West, it's based on tradition. If you believe in evolution, then you should believe that in general only methodologies that have some effect would survive over time. That's the basis of traditional medicine at least, and just because it's not quantified and understood in the Western way does not mean it is all fake.
  - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
    > hinese medicine is also practiced in Taiwan, and while the system differs from the West, it's based on tradition. If you believe in evolution, then you should believe that in general only methodologies that have some effect would survive over time. That's the basis of traditional medicine at least, and just because it's not quantified and understood in the Western way does not mean it is all fake. This is a very anti science way of looking at the world. The west has pseudoscience also: homeopathy and faith-based healing, crystals, witch craft, etc... I don’t believe in evolution: I believe in the strong evidence that supports the theory of evolution. Lots of things have stood the test of time that are complete bunk with no supporting evidence what so ever, eg all religions. China can’t afford to push pseudosciences, neither can the USA, it does more harm than good.

seanmcdirmid 7y ago

Chinese medicine has a lot of costs for little if any benefits. Disease from live animals is just one of them, but then their is the medical resources wasted on not really cures, hospital profiteering, and not to mention causing entire species to become endangered or even extinct. Peer review and control study the stuff that works and call it normal medicine, the rest of the folk cures might as well be homeopathy. Blame Mao for calling this junk Chinese medicine in the first place, before he pushed forward the concept to make up for a lack of real medical resources, it was all just a bunch of disparate folk cures in and around the country.

chrischen 7y ago
I did some research on bats vs pangolins. It seems that pangolins are illegal in China and sometimes used for medicine (though I'm not sure if consuming them raw is a part of it). I think the practice of illegal animal trading of pangolins is a separate issue altogether from just consuming non beef/pork/chicken food that we're used to. However from what I can tell the consumption of bats, while uncommon, is just as a normal food source: https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-eat-bats?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-eat-bats?share=1. Though some consider wild animals in general as aphrodisiacs. > Peer review and control study the stuff that works and call it normal medicine, the rest of the folk cures might as well be homeopathy. Chinese medicine is also practiced in Taiwan, and while the system differs from the West, it's based on tradition. If you believe in evolution, then you should believe that in general only methodologies that have some effect would survive over time. That's the basis of traditional medicine at least, and just because it's not quantified and understood in the Western way does not mean it is all fake.
- seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  > hinese medicine is also practiced in Taiwan, and while the system differs from the West, it's based on tradition. If you believe in evolution, then you should believe that in general only methodologies that have some effect would survive over time. That's the basis of traditional medicine at least, and just because it's not quantified and understood in the Western way does not mean it is all fake. This is a very anti science way of looking at the world. The west has pseudoscience also: homeopathy and faith-based healing, crystals, witch craft, etc... I don’t believe in evolution: I believe in the strong evidence that supports the theory of evolution. Lots of things have stood the test of time that are complete bunk with no supporting evidence what so ever, eg all religions. China can’t afford to push pseudosciences, neither can the USA, it does more harm than good.