Reply #184: I believe that you are on to something

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An example may be the long held Western belief that there are 5 human senses. Outside of Western understanding about the number of human senses the count can be > 70.

What is the Western answer? Additional human senses are A DISORDER, synesthesia.

Simply labeling the expansion of human senses a disorder denies the possibility that in fact we possess more than five senses.

Chinese, American doctors meet at MIT for medical exchange

Scientific medicine is justified by the scientific method. Much of what we use in Western hospitals today is not proved by the scientific method. Medicine is still an art; we try different things and what seems to work, we use.

I would say that neither Chinese nor American medicine is scientific. Both do what they can to relieve suffering and in some cases there is scientific validation," he said. "Science is a very slow process and sick people can't wait."

Scientific is a goal and an aspiration," said Shore. "We're trying in both countries to add the science."
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