> 7 YongDingLu Community Health Care Center, Aerospace Center Hospital, Beijing, China
> 8 Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, BaiLi Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, Beijing
> 9 Medical Department of Beijing Gulou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Beijing, China
hmmm
I remember studies coming out of China saying hypnotherapy could be effective in replacing anesthesia. Then I also found out about how there are many fraudulent studies coming out of China. (1)
With 17,000 retracted studies with Chinese coauthors since 2021.
Now that’s not to say that tai chai doesn’t work, nor does it mean this is fraudulent but it does pay to learn how to read these studies with a critical eye.
There are hundreds of millions of people who learned Tai Chi is something that it is not and now they're left to grapple with it.
This is superstition being exposed by the scientific method. Tai Chi is a pretend martial art that many people enjoy practicing. That doesn't make it worthless. It's a gentle exercise that isn't identical to others so it will have a somewhat unique benefit profile if you look deep enough. But the lens of science has burned away all the other bullshit and what's left is a mundane exercise with a unique cultural context. And that's fine, but hundreds of millions have yet to come to terms with that. It is difficult to have part of your worldview completely destroyed.