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Chairman Mao popularized Chinese folk medicine and sold the West on it, apparently to give China more international prestige. A lot of the popularity of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine today, derives from Chinese Communist party propaganda.
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What are "Jazz" Chords
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It is sometimes said amongst physicists that we should take the predictions of our theories seriously, even when those theories predict seemingly unlikely results. For example, the wave theory of light predicted that a circular obstruction placed in front of a source of light cas... | web |
Article: Key info inadvertently omitted from Pons and Fleischmann report
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The following is an excerpt from a November 13, 2004 article at titled "The Truth About DNA"
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