Kannehbosem, the holy anointing oil... you seem open to new ideas which is great, I wouldn’t put people like Randi (or Shermer, or West, or Nye, or Tyson, or ...) on too high a pedestal. Science is our greatest tool for finding our way in the dark, but we can’t let it become a dogmatic belief system. That just leads to disgraces like Sheldrake, Schoch, Hancock et al, and so on. Great thinkers smeared and suppressed for “woowoo” (one of the most mentally subversive and worthless terms in the last 20 years)

Edit:also, I agree re: TCM, that’s why I called “trial and error” western derision and put “stumbled” in quotes. It’s as scientific as the internal alchemy practiced by Chang and his 2000+ year old lineage.