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From here: PhD girl is killed by Chinese treatment I'm not claiming that evidence based medicine is perfect and errors can't happen, but this here is the really scary part about these "traditional" remedies: (bolding mine) They couldn't even find out what ingredients and substances were in...

Penn and Teller : BS! season 3 will be coming to the UK soon and one of the episodes is about " so-called " traditional values. I was just wondering what the americans here generally think of these " so-called " tradtional values "? and if you can help it, please don't post any spoilers for...

I post this from a skeptical point of view. Not a sports point of view. Why do people still spend their time and money studying traditional martial arts? It has been shown over and over and over that the overwhelming majority of what is learned in a TMA school is not useful in real fighting...

Herbal remedies are often said to have no bad or dangerous side effects. Well, a norwegian woman suffered complete kidney failure and is now awaiting kidney transplantation. This happened after she took a traditional chinese remedy containing "aristolachia". (That is what it is called in the...

Yes, really. Tonight's Horizon. The fight against malaria. Way back in the 18th century a herbal medicine called "china bark" was found to be effective against malaria. Some time later the active principle was isolated, quinine. A derivative of this drug (chloroquine, I think) was the...

Is that you've got no idea whats in it: http://www.mhra.gov.uk/news/presschinese.pdf Aristolochic acid has caused a number of deaths in Belgium and at least 2 cases of Kidney failure in the UK. TCM doesn't seem to be too concerned about what they are actualy selling and don't mind...

The Supreme Court has struck down Texas's sodamy law (read more here). It is the traditional American value that sodomy (read: homosexuality) is morally wrong. However, value is based on Judeo-Christian teachings and one of the virtues of the American government that there is seperation of...

CBC news article I find this a bit disturbing - the article looks entirely one-sided (positive) with no concerns or doubts about the safety or efficacy of the practice expressed. It does say but doesn't specify further. Has anyone else seen or heard anything about this? Surely some here...

Did anyone see the interesting article in Sunday's NYTimes Magazine on Mel Gibson, his father, his "traditional" catholicism, seeming anti-Semetic views and his upcoming movie on the death of Jesus? You may need to register to get access to this...