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Environment & Energy

eppur_se_muova

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1. Traditional Chinese "medicine", destroying the world one species at a time.

Reply to SunSeeker (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:44 AM

Jun 2015

Oh, who am I kidding? They're going after them all, all at once.

Why hasn't the Chinese gov't done more to educate its people out of the absurd magical thinking that maintains these beliefs in the complete absence of any evidence?

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World's most endangered marine mammal could go extinct [View all] SunSeeker Jun 2015 OP

Traditional Chinese "medicine", destroying the world one species at a time. eppur_se_muova Jun 2015 #1

Dunno. They banned Falun Gong mysticism but not animal parts voodoo. SunSeeker Jun 2015 #2

"illegally exported to Asia to make soup and traditional medicine." Nihil Jun 2015 #3