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> Humans don't have "qi" or energy blockages or chakras I do. How do you know you don't?

• lobster_johnson 14y ago
  There is no reason for me to believe that I, or you, do, much as there is no reason for me to believe that ghosts exists, or that crystals can heal. There is no evidence that the things I listed exist, and there are much simpler, scientific explanations why acupuncture relieves pain and discomfort than reasons offered by Chinese medicine. (Acupuncture has not proven consistently effective for much else.) With simple explanations, Occam's razor implies we can rule out the more convoluted explanations. Equally importantly, the phenomena I listed have no rational, scientific basis. They are superstitions, or at best philoshopical abstractions irrelevant except as historical curiosities. If you could formulate a testable hypothesis I would be happy to discuss their validity, but unfortunately their existence are predicated entirely upon faith.