How About Anecdotes ?

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After reading my blog , a netizen commented:

“Respecting science and facts is our proper attitude !”

I replied: You are right! 

But some pseudo scholars who always want to ruin our

TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine ) describe all facts 

of effective treatment of diseases by our TCM as 

 "Individual Cases " ,  "Anecdotes "  or "Personal 

Experience " , and assert that all of  these facts are

meaningless to prove the curative effect , and all facts

are "Efficacy  Hallucinations " ! 

Is it true?!

And even if TCM treatment is truly " Anecdotes ", do the

"Anecdotes" really have no academic value ?

Now , let's talk about  an " Anecdotes ":

As we know , smallpox used to be a highly contagious

disease , which claimed hundreds of millions of lives .

At the end of the 18th century , the British doctor Jenner

learned a commonly accepted statement among the 

dairy women and farmers in the region he was in :

“ Cowpox is  a minor disease of cattle , but  it can  

also be transmitted to people .  If one is infected

with cowpox , he will never get smallpox again .”

Should this be regarded as a kind of " Anecdotes " at 

that time ?

However , Jenner  realized that vaccinating people 

with vaccinia was a safe way to immunize them 

against  smallpox if this Anecdotes  the local 

dairy workers and farmers said were right .

----------- Written on September 3 , 2021

----------- To be continued