People act like scientists have never even looked at traditional treatments and just ignore them because they are “traditional.” Like we haven’t had decades upon decades of progress in medicine, exploring every accessible avenue, and only a few of those avenues actually lead anywhere real. Herbs do not “cool down” or “speed up” your blood. Water does not have “memory.” There are no such things as “meridians” in your body. We don’t need to spend more time researching these things until you can prove that they exist.

People arguing that we need to spend more time researching traditional medicine ignore the fact that we have, and we found it to be bullshit. It’s an intellectually dishonest argument, because it just moves the goalposts every time. Traditional medicine supporters will never admit that their medicine is bullshit, because they view it as foundational, so the most they can do is say “we need to examine it more!” Even though the fundamental, most basic claims that these systems are based on are pseudoscientific fairy tales.