Re: Acupuncture Could Boost Fertility

In article <a17826ae-2c93-4bef-9a6b-66cf9a6b9e78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_Kingoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:> : You said the requirement was not enforced. ?Is that substantively
:> : different from it being waived?

:> I never said that the requirement was not enforced. ?I said that there
:> *was no requirement*. ?What part of that was too difficult for you to
:> understand?

: What part of medical schools' standard curriculum is not requried?

Why don't you answer the question that I asked you, instead of pretending
that you didn't mischaracterize what I wrote?

: Answer: Zero! You see, Richard, the real-world uses the words far
: differently than you do.

Well, since you have consistently used the terms "passive-aggressive,"
"cognitive dissonance," and "autodidact" in senses that are far removed
from those use by people who know what the terms actually mean, you'll
understand my reluctance to believe you when you say that.

: Bizarre loopholes and poor analogies aside,
: standard courses in Medical School are mandatory. You can wax poetic
: all day long, but medical schools do not have optional courses in the
: standard curriculum. Here, I'll prove it yet again!

As I said, the discussion of whether acupuncture is "accepted" is over.
I say that even though the letter that you wrote completely mischaracterizes
what I said, and hence both it and the reply you received are totally
irrelevant even to that discussion.

:> : Qi is not any one thing. Heat is described as a form of Qi, so are
:> : many other things. It is like saying "money" is a actual substance in
:> : and of itself as opposed to saying that gold is a form of money.

:> One can provide a defition of money that is not a list of things that
:> are forms of money. You do know that it is well understood what "heat"
:> is without any necessity of referring it to Qi?

: Yes. It is well understood what gold is without any necessity of
: referring it to money. It is well understood what money is without
: any necessity of referring it to gold.

If you know that, then why did *you* make the analogy between Qi and money?
And why did you forget to answer the part about how "heat" is well-understood
without any necessity to invoke Qi?

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Richard Schultz schultr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"You don't even have a clue about which clue you're missing."
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