Pseudo-scientific health preservation

Health preservation, like all traditional cultures in China, has no clear concept, vague semantics, diverse contents and a wide range. In the oldest flattery, it is "extensive and profound" or "has a long history." The main purpose of health care is to make people live as long as possible, and not tired, not relaxed, unconsciously feel immortal, that is health care. In fact, as long as we analyze the traditional health preserving theory with a rational attitude, it is nothing, it is not a systematic scientific theory, because it has no scientific theory at all. It is not a real cure, because it can't really cure the disease. It's not nutrition, and it can't be used to balance nutrition. It's not kinematics, nor can it keep fit. Not biology, not having the basic knowledge of modern biology. Although it often pretends to be philosophy, it has nothing to do with philosophy. Strangely, keeping in good health seems to contain all the above contents. It is a very portable shopping basket, and you can find everything: it seems that you can really see medicine, nutrition, kinematics, biology and even philosophy from it, and everything is different, which seems to be very particular. When you look closely, it is also full of yin and yang gossip, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; Jin Mu fire and water, black and yellow; Eight strange meridians, size, Sunday; In order to nourish yin and yang, protect the body, be chic and elegant, and become immortal. Everything you want, medical care can meet your requirements.

At this point, medical care is very worrying. Actually, it's nothing. According to the scientific attitude, health preservation is a typical pseudoscience, because it conforms to all the elements of pseudoscience.

Authentic science has a long history and existed before written records. At that time, when people found that natural events such as moonset, rain, snow and hail appeared regularly, they began to explore and summarize the laws of nature. It is easy to act according to the law, because nature basically acts according to the law, so people can make some predictions about nature according to the law. The simplest prediction is that the sun will rise again tomorrow.

These predictions will further test the reliability of the law. After a period of time, people will master some natural laws and use them to improve their environment.

From this, we can generally see the important characteristics of science: first, it reveals certain laws, which are objective things, and are by no means nonsense. Second, according to scientific laws, some scientific predictions can be made. Third, scientific laws need to be tested by facts. As for whether the main purpose of science is to benefit mankind, that is, different things, I won't discuss it here.

The opposite of science is superstition. The biggest feature of superstition is that it doesn't need to be tested. Listen to what he says, don't doubt, don't ask questions, just believe and do it. Master said there was a big fairy with yellow feet. You mustn't let him catch a big fairy with yellow feet to take pictures or make specimens. Only by blindly believing can you be regarded as a "good man and a woman." As the saying goes, "You believe, you have; If you don't believe it, you will have it, and then you can add "sincerity will have spirituality." If what you pray for doesn't come true, you will have to cry for yourself. Who made you insincere? As for how sincere, no one told you. Because this is crazy.

Science doesn't need to "trust women". On the contrary, science needs a group of skeptical and rebellious people to vigorously promote the progress of science. Every subversion is a leap in science.

Superstition sometimes puts forward a set of theories in a serious way, such as the popular geomantic fortune-telling theory in Shao Weihua, which has a nose and eyes, but each set has no scientific basis or factual basis, so in general, the whole theory is a bunch of nonsense. Those masters who squat in the street to tell people's fortune also have their own teaching materials. These people are actually very bitter in their hearts. They can't control their own destiny while seriously calculating other people's lives.

Of course, keeping in good health is not superstition, although there used to be many superstitious contents mixed in keeping in good health, such as practicing eye exercises, not many people believe it now. The main reason is that people who are concerned about health care now have more or less knowledge, and things that are too unreliable are not easy to impress these people. Therefore, health care is to draw a clear line with superstition.