Chinese remedies should make us wary.
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Wu Xianghong, a doctoral candidate in philosophy and science at Renmin University of China, Beijing, writes about the popularity of paranormal beliefs in China in Skeptical Briefs March, 1995. Unsophisticated scams of a simple-mindedness not seen in the USA since the 1920s, such as claiming to turn water into gasoline and electronic “growth pads” in shoes to help short men grow taller, are rampant there. It wasn’t until November, 1994, that China had a truth in advertising law. Since then fraudulent ads have diminished, but Wu says that “pseudoscientific… |