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Happy editing! Ian.thomson (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Ian.thomson (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Also, science-based medicine isn't the same as "western medicine." Traditional western medicine includes practices like Homeopathy and there's plenty of non-western science-based medicine practitioners. I mean, the dude on the 1000 yen bill figured out what syphilis really was, and we've got dozens of articles about famous Chinese pharmacologists, Indian cardiologists, Ugandan public health doctors, Japanese dermatologists; and several on Egyptian and Pakistani surgeons, Malaysian GPs, and Nigerian gynecologists -- so it's rather colonialist to act like only the west has science-based medicine (and that's what you're doing when you call science-based medicine "western"). The entire paradigm of "western vs traditional medicine" was ultimately Maoist propaganda that some western quacks found useful (causing them to obscure western traditional medicine by claiming it originated elsewhere and corrupting other regions' traditional medicines in the process). A lot of science-based medicine does examine traditional medicine for its chemical basis, and when it finds something useful it isolates the active ingredient. That's why we take Asperin instead of white willow tea (same active ingredient). Ian.thomson (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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