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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...

For those who aren't aware, the "chinese room" is a thought experiment some philosophers like to toss out saying that even something that fully functioned like a concious being, it could still not actually be aware. It basically gives an example of some massive city smashing robot with a box...

A Danish paper printed an article on this story. Apparently, an earthquake bureau in Nanning uses video-monitoring of snakes to predict earthquakes: I have my doubts, especially, considering that the snakes are said to sense an earthquake 3-5 days before it happens, which seems to me to be...

Source Source Self defense? I had no idea Tibetan nuns were that scary.

What's wrong with Google "blocking/filtering" Chinese searches - anything? I've read a few Member's comments that seem to indicate that Google is somehow doing something wrong by "acquiescing" to the Chinese government's regulations/demands in regards to what searches they can return to Chinese...

A Chinese map recently unveiled, claimed to be a 1763 copy of a (missing) 1418 map, has created controversy and is soon to be carbon-dated. Several news links provided (others can be found by searching Google News): Chinese map may alter world history China beat Columbus to it, perhaps Map...

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...

Do ad-aware, spybot etc anti-spy tools remove spyware from all sites??? I seem to have a pop-up on my computer everytime i open explorer. It is in chinese and probably aquired from a chinese site. I tried to run the anti-spy programs and delete all the spyware but this freaking pop-up still appears.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/07/news/china.html Is the beginning of another arms race and perhaps another world war?

WASHINGTON - Even if per capita income in China grows at only 8% per year - lower than the red-hot pace of 9.5% at which it has grown since 1978 - it will still overtake the current per capita US income in just over 25 years, according to the latest analysis by the Earth Policy Institute (EPI)...

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...

My sister-in-law has been trying to have a baby for about 5 years, including several years of IVF. No success at all. She has heard that Chinese herbal medicine can help and is now visiting someone down in London for 'treatment' (she lives in West Wales, so it is some trek!) I'm not told...

Just a FYI, on PBS tonight is a show about the controversial "Chinese Discovered America" hypothesis. Last I heard, the 15th century Chinese were perfectly capable of such voyages of discovery, but there was no evidence that they had. IIRC, there was some underground imaging that showed a...

Does anybody know anything about Chinese Bellflower? I have a persistent chest cold. The pharmacist at the drug store recommended something to me and I bought. Several days later, I decided to actually look at (and translate...) the ingredients and see what I was taking. Turns out that the two...

Can't decide if this is good or bad! http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1176808,00.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_15374.html

This seems kinda weird to me. There's something icky about this fear of miscegenation.

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19593823 eBay kitsch like aqua and white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow wallpaper in a fried-egg motif sell chop-chop in Shanghai WalMart.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=2&u=/ap/20031008/ap_on_sc/china_space Alleged launch date: 15 October 2003. Scientific American ran an article on their technology recently: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0005B4B6-1CEC-1F5D-905980A84189EEDF...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20031001/ap_on_re_as/china_easier_marriage un-bleeping-believable!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20030919/od_afp/china_animals_030919101647 news of the odd in an odd world...I guess this is progress.

Just wondering.... the answer wavers between yes and no in our house... I'm so tired of teenagers.

Chinese zoo stops allowing visitors to shoot animals Maybe they should rent smallish pistols and make the visitors shoot to wound? Include a local school of veterinary medicine in the program so they can get training? MattJ

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...