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PlayasBum t1_ja1cskm wrote

Reply to comment by joausj in Amazon faces a lawsuit over products that fuel the donkey skin trade. by tandemuis365

It’s always a fucking Chinese medicine thing.

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DavidBSkate t1_ja1hf4k wrote

The weirdest shit. Like if if I could only eat monkey ball sack, all my problems would be solved! Wtf!?

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iCCup_Spec t1_ja1kdvj wrote

Way back in the days people don't have a good grasp of nutrition; if they got lucky and got their missing micronutrients from some nutsack it'll feel like magic.

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PuckFutin69 t1_ja32bh0 wrote

My doctor said I should eat some monkey balls. Hard to stomach, I almost macacked them up.

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travelinzac t1_ja1xkkl wrote

Seriously how do we purge the world of this crap

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Tricky-Lingonberry81 t1_ja2gpge wrote

Math, science, logic, and philosophy classes starting as soon as kids can learn. Specifically teaching everyone how to identify logical fallacies. Preventing socially conservative dictators and politicians of any economic or religious persuasion from committing purges of information and people. Over half of traditional Chinese medicine came to exist under Mao after he had convinced the young people to kill many of the elderly and highly educated. There were no doctors, so they made up some stuff and called it medicine and gave it a backstory that tied it to herbal remedies that were traditional.

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yukon-flower t1_ja4tkdu wrote

When science-based healthcare becomes too expensive (or onerous), people turn to quack remedies. Same with homeopathy. The placebo effect and things naturally spontaneously resolving themselves provide enough positive incentive, along with the profit motives of the purveyors. Still cheaper than going to a doctor in the United States.

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MenstrualCupBearer t1_ja9w6ni wrote

You boycott this shit like the vegans you hate so much for boycotting this shit.

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