Follow-up on Dr. RW’s take on how hypocritical AMSA is. How could a medical student organization be so uncritical?
On what studies or evidence does AMSA base these assertions, particularly the last one, in which AMSA explicitly states that TCM is “well-suited” to a certain group of patients? None whatsoever. The references are all books on TCM and acupuncture. There’s not a single peer-reviewed scientific study or clinical trial listed in the references for TCM. There’s not discussion of the lack of scientific evidence even for the existence of qi (and scientists have looked and continue to look; I’ve seen grant applications in which the applicants propose trying to measure qi). Moreover, there is little or no skepticism or crtitical thinking. It’s all warm and fuzzy acceptance.
