traditional chinese medicine

In our postmodern society -- where truth is relative, "fake news" is prevalent, and scientific facts are just an opinion -- it shouldn't come as a surprise that modern medicine is facing a backlash.

A recent study in JAMA reported on the possible effects of acupuncture on women undergoing in vitro fertilization.

A hot rock massage and herbal tea might make you feel nice, but they don't actually cure anything. Pointing that out in China, however, might land a person in jail.

Alternative medicine is like an "alternative fact." If it was real, then the word "alternative" wouldn't be necessary. 

"Natural is better." That pervasive and pernicious myth, despite being soundly refuted by things like arsenic and hemlock and rattlesnake venom, has become a mainstay in 21st Century conventional wisdom.