Why do so many people question Chinese medicine now?

Busy families over 30 have little time to visit Zhihu. Therefore, most groups in Zhihu are young people.

On the topic of Chinese medicine, most post-90s people are firmly opposed. No matter what they say about the positive articles of TCM, they will not choose to believe them.

This is because in Zhihu, the standard answers about TCM are "unscientific" and "superstition". Is this a reference answer? The school told us. Is there a problem? Yes, in the process of growing up, we know too much about how to answer questions and how to choose the right answer according to the standard answer. Mark the incorrect as "Rightists". Students only need to recite their memories according to the standard answers, see the praise and criticism of Chinese medicine, and see what is related to "advocating" Chinese medicine and discredit it. This is their mentality.

There are many specific labels, but they are all forms. The fundamental reason behind them is the psychological mechanism of seeking "reference answers".

Specific labels include: a book, superstition, unscientific, advocacy, over-generalization, I will be happy to see this, worship foreign things, metaphysics, IQ tax and so on.

Let's analyze the underlying reasons.

First, cramming education's thinking has created a group of sprayers who have no independent thinking ability.

Don't think that this generation of young people have received a lot of scientific education and enlightenment, just because the truth is in their hands. There are too many things in this world that science cannot explain, and there are too many things that have no "standard answers". This requires us to form the habit of doubt and acquire the ability of independent thinking. However, it is a pity that this generation of young people have no ability to think independently. When they encounter something they can't accept or understand (they can only accept a set of scientific categories), most of them will completely deny it and kill it directly, leaving no room. This has laid a big fork for the continuous growth of my mental model and the continuous broadening of my vision!

The reason is the strategic mistake of national education, and the direct reason is that the level of Chinese medicine in the market is really poor and embarrassing. Chinese medicine swindlers run around. Therefore, it is definitely an academic problem for Chinese medicine to be called a garbage liar! This pot must be carried by Chinese medicine practitioners themselves! However, using the garbage of modern Chinese medicine to prove the ignorance of the ancients is different from the garbage of ancient classic Chinese medicine. I don't agree.

Modern post-90s professors' education is only a low-end education lacking speculation. It is characterized by non-speculation, lack of independent thinking ability and broad vision. China's educational model is exam-oriented education, with special emphasis on rote memorization and repetition. This is the essence of the gradual solidification of young people's thinking after 90 ~ 10, and it will only get worse and worse in the future. This educational model lacks creativity and critical thinking. If young people just repeat the description of the so-called scientism and the knowledge instilled in us from childhood to adulthood, then we will become the mouthpiece of scientism. Zhihu's sprayer and Chinese medicine doctor Hei are all such people, who are just like others, waiting for scientism to support themselves, but they don't have the ability of independent thinking, and because they don't have the ability of independent thinking, these people are easily subject to IQ tax. If generations become rigid, the inspiring and inspiring thinking and creative soil will disappear from China, and finally everyone can only copy blindly (look at the colleges and universities now! ), passively accept the ideology instilled by superiors and authorities. In Zhihu, our superior and authority are Zhihu's "standard answer" and "political correctness"-black Chinese medicine. What the black doctors of traditional Chinese medicine are doing now is nothing more than repeating the set of logic and theories instilled by the authorities (western medicine and scientism), without their own independent thinking. Retelling is the face of scientism, and exploring truth and speculation is more in line with the scientific spirit.

Second, the black thinking mode of traditional Chinese medicine is immature and the vision is narrow.

A person's thinking habits determine how a person studies, which we sometimes ignore. When we strongly pursue and advocate something, our other side will strongly deny the other side, which is called binary opposition academically. However, this objection does not come from the question of our approval or opposition. Are we against Chinese medicine or support Chinese medicine? Many times, there are many possibilities for people who argue: ① They have never studied medicine at all and don't understand Chinese medicine. He is a Chinese doctor, but he doesn't know western medicine. He is a western doctor, but he hasn't read a book on Chinese medicine, even a popular science article, and he begins to draw conclusions about things he doesn't know at all. Why is this? From the perspective of cognitive science, the problem actually lies not in the object of the external world and the object of argument, but in themselves. The mental mode and thinking mode they have formed since childhood are rigid, so when Chinese medicine and western medicine appear, they will force themselves to choose one side according to their existing cognitive level. You will also argue "aerobic exercise or strong training?" Are you a vegetarian or a meat eater? Abstinence or indulgence? Genetically modified food or organic food? "We can see that this single mode of thinking shows that our understanding of the world is not comprehensive enough. This part needs us to keep learning and break the existing boundaries (interdisciplinary). The more subjects you cross, the less boundaries you have. When you learn a new subject, you will learn it more easily. Learning any knowledge depends on the level of mental development of learners, people with unstable hearts, incomplete understanding and superficial thoughts.

From birth to adulthood, whether it is parents' education or school education, or the intentional or unintentional input of media, newspapers, internet and educational information, they are actually downloading programs for us. When we download them to a certain extent, we will think that the world should be like this, and we will think that this thing should be done and that thing should develop like this, especially for those who are born with full air and good health, especially when they do this, things will reach their original expectations. This is a good thing, because in life, we must first establish this self, and after we have a foothold, it is possible to further understand the world. But this process will also form a solidification, which will let us look at the world along a fixed and established cognitive way and thinking mode.

However, the real world is often not so simple. With the weakening of the post-90 s physique and the gradual increase of their horizons and experiences, they will not find that there are many uncontrollable factors and incredible things happening in this world. The older you get, the more you will realize the limitations of your previous cognitive style and thinking mode.

Definition:

Scientism: (Scientism) holds that natural science is a model of human knowledge, and that the scientific method described by scientists is the only means to obtain knowledge that can be applied to any reality.

Famous sayings related to scientific spirit:

1. If we admit defeat too easily, we may not realize that we are very close to being right. (Karl Popper) (UK)

2. The same is true of "difficulty". Facing the cliffs, you can't see a crack in a hundred years, but with an axe, you can advance inch by inch, inch by inch, and you have to accumulate. Leaps will come, and breakthroughs will follow. -Hua (China)

I really want to invent a kind of mass or machine with such terrible mass destruction that war will never be possible. Nobel Prize (Sweden)

Only by obeying nature can we master nature. Bacon (UK)

The sea of truth, let all undiscovered things lie before my eyes, let me explore. -Newton (UK)

All in all,

The essence of scientific spirit lies in the spirit of exploration and the spirit of doubt about the level that science cannot explain.

It's easy to label it "unscientific", but it's difficult to explore the unknown.

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