"First of all, I don't want to scold you because you are old, and I don't know what misunderstanding you have about our Chinese medicine, but it is undeniable that Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and the effectiveness of Chinese medicine has been tested for thousands of years, which is a fait accompli. His school is also in the United States, and since it has established a Chinese medicine department, it proves that in fact, your country also recognizes Chinese medicine. And your personal biases should not be paid for by the patient. ”

You question me, you question TCM? Sorry, battle?

"There is no scientific evidence in traditional Chinese medicine, such as yin and yang, the five elements, and the appearance and reality of the virtual and the real cannot be falsified." When it comes to traditional Chinese medicine, the old lady seems to be very disdainful, thinking that this is a trick.

Do you know a lot? It seems to be a professional Chinese medicine black. At this moment, Tan Chuwei's dissatisfaction became more and more intense.

"What do you mean by falsifiability? The falsifiable is the Austrian philosopher Karl Murphy. Popper's argument is that the criterion for judging whether a theory is scientific is falsifiability. So, the object of falsifiability is first and foremost a proposition, not a concept! It's like mathematical functions, physical molecules, and chemical thermal energy, how do you falsify them?

Taking a step back, even if TCM cannot be falsified, it does not mean that it cannot guide practical application. In his exposition of falsifiability, Popper emphasized that theories that cannot be falsifiable empirically are not scientific theories, but non-sciences are not necessarily incorrect", such as mathematics and logic, both of which belong to metaphysics, philosophical branches, which study the nature of existence and things, and the object of study is abstract. The corresponding metaphysics is also a branch of philosophy, which studies the concrete object and the philosophical basis of natural science is metaphysics.

The reason why mathematics and logic are classified as non-sciences is that they do not require empirical testing and cannot be falsified, but both can be used to guide practical applications. The basic theories of Chinese medicine are the same as mathematics and logic. However, a scientific theory does not mean that it is a correct theory, and falsifiability is a logical falsification, not a falsification of facts, such as the "geocentric theory", although it is wrong, it is still a scientific theory.

In Popper's writings, he repeatedly asserted that the boundary between science and non-science is not the boundary between correct and wrong theories, and that the essence of non-science lies not in its correctness but in its unfalsifiability, and that it does not need to be tested empirically, a situation that Hume called necessary truth. Science, like non-science, contains both truth and falsehood.

A theory that cannot be falsified empirically is not a scientific theory, but a non-scientific theory is not necessarily incorrect. Scientific research is the law of metaphysics, which is universal, and the purpose of scientific research is "why".

The medical research is to solve the problem of "what to do", medicine is a summary of technical means, its connotation not only includes universal problems, but also needs to consider unique, individualized problems, deeply rely on empirical feedback, from this point of view, all clinical medicine is non-scientific, because science follows falsificationism, and clinical medicine follows positivism.

At most, we can only say that the basic theory of Western medicine is natural science, and the basic theory of Chinese medicine is metaphysics and non-science. Science may not be correct, non-science may not be wrong, using unscience to deny the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and then denying the practicability of traditional Chinese medicine, is a shallow and narrow-minded behavior! At the beginning of the conversation, the conversation was so subtle that the others didn't have a chance to interject at all.

"The thousand-year-old practice and perfection of traditional Chinese medicine are all supported by history, and the thousand-year-old efforts of our predecessors are not something you can deny with a word."

"History can also be fictional, can you guarantee that the theoretical knowledge about Chinese medicine found by archaeology is not related to the fanciful truth that you Chinese people like now?" The old lady retorted that Huaxia now likes some fanciful things, maybe those histories are made up in this way.

Tsk, she sighed in her heart, "In the same way, can it be considered that the remarks of your predecessors are not babbling in your sleep or the absurd thoughts of insanity." ”

"You, you're unreasonable!" The old lady blushed with anger, and the crutches in her hand made a sound when they hit the "ground".

"Also, it's understandable that you can't understand our history, after all, you're only a few years old. Are you still archaeology? Let's stop, after all, the history is too short and there is no need for archaeology, anyway, what is dug up is not your own thing, and you may have to be scolded by others. Tan Chu choked a sentence.

At this time, there was an exclamation from behind, Tan Chu turned his head slightly, only to see several staff members covering their mouths in disbelief, and the man on the ground had stopped twitching and no longer foaming at the mouth.

Tan Chuwei threw a dry and beautiful look at the boy, and turned his head to look at the stunned old lady, "Don't say anything else, just the scene just now, what can you do?" And the results of our traditional Chinese medicine are in front of you, whether you want to pretend to be deaf and dumb, or think that we have stumbled by mistake, I just want to tell you in the end, neither Chinese medicine nor Huaxia can be slandered.

You can not believe in not contacting yourself and completely rejecting it, but without your approval, even if you are prejudiced, you cannot erase the thousand-year-old history of Chinese medicine and China. ”

The boy just stood up after explaining the precautions, and after Tan Chuwei finished speaking, the two glanced at each other and passed by the old lady.

"So handsome!" Leaving the first class, the boy couldn't help but praise, and the national pride came up directly from her words just now.

"Small scene, small scene, are you from the New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine?" The New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is an institution of higher learning that specializes in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and is the only institution on the East Coast of the United States to name traditional Chinese medicine.

The boy nodded, "Yes, you're going to New York too?" Whether you are here for tourism or to study abroad. ”

"I'm in transit in New York, and this time I'm going back to school."

"What you said just now, are you also studying Chinese medicine, otherwise how could you know so much, but as far as I know, there are not many Chinese medicine disciplines in the West, which school are you?"

"Harvard, but I'm studying Western medicine."

"Huh?" The boy obviously didn't expect it, and it wasn't that he didn't think it was good to study Western medicine, but he really didn't expect that a girl who knew so much about Chinese medicine would actually study Western medicine.

Tan Chu understood his thoughts in a microsecond, winked at him, and smiled very playfully, "Knowing yourself and knowing that you are invincible in a hundred battles." ”

Good guy, co-author this is the undercover agent we sent in the past? Now the boy was even more stunned.

Good guy, I'm just a good guy.

The guy who got to the seat first, "Is it convenient to add a contact information?" I didn't mean anything else, I just wanted to have the opportunity to talk about medicine. ”

"There's nothing wrong with it." Tan Chuwei took out his mobile phone, and the two added contact information.

Some of the remarks are from Zhihu's column "The Debate on Chinese and Western Medicine".

In the previous chapter, 91 was locked up in a small black room, and it may be a little later to be released, humble.

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