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[LuxEtVeritas]

^^^^

that is largely my current view, but i always liek to remain open-minded and thus if indeed anyone is aware of any VALID research i am more than interested to see it

from what I have seen it does not exist to the standard of hard science

of course though i do not discount the human body is more complex than "Western" science can still discern and that some of the Eastern thought (such as energy meridians and the like) do have some relevance

certainly much herbal TCM has been validated in Western science more and more

still anything can be scrutinized by true scientific method and unless it holds valid to such scrutiny it is indeed not proven valid

I know I can design resonably simple research experiments to do such, so why has this not been done, unless the practitioners and advocates indeed do believe it will fail such rigorous scrutiny...at least that is how i see it to be viewed at this time, thougj i still would love to see some rigorous and valid science to affirm one way or another

 

[bingalpaws]

your last paragraph is dead on. I'd love to see the research too - I'd love to be able to have every ailment fixed by having my back cracked, I'd enjoy talking to spirits through a medium, and I'd enjoy getting an effect from a product that's been diluted so much that you can barely even notice a trace of the 'active' chemical. I'd like to see that research, but it's pretty clear that the absence of research proving it legit seems to scream that it's not legit.

Let's take psychics/mediums for example. There's a huuuge cash reward to anyone who can demonstrate any psychic abilities under controlled circumstances - surprisingly nobody has received the reward. Let's look at chiropractic - virtually any chiropractor you go to will give you a different diagnosis, and they claim to be able to cure virtually any ailment. However, they can't cure ailments that can be proven - they're not going to boost test levels in an older man, or lower your cholesterol. Those things are testable, therefore chiropractic doesn't really treat those, which is telling (and I'm not even going to get into how illogical the basic premise of chiropractic happens to be!).

Same goes for any of these pseudo-scientific areas - if you're industry is legit, surely it would do better if you'd prove it to the non-believers. The fact that they don't says all I need to know.