Protesters are using social media…and poker card games to challenge the practice of traditional medicine. They want to be supported with modern scientific methods.
While in many countries patients are looking for alternative methods to conventional medicine, in China protesters are calling for the end of traditional medicine and want to benefit from treatments resulting from scientific research, from modern medicine.
These protests erupted after the vaccination was criticized in China. Protesters stationed themselves in hospitals to draw attention to the potential dangers of traditional treatments. Other protests took place online, on social media and blogs. This is what the review reveals Public Understanding of Science.
These Chinese who ask to benefit from modern medicine personally write to their families, their colleagues and their friends to encourage them to distance themselves from traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture or massage, which they accuse of making sick people.
A campaign carried out by distributing … poker games
According to Professor Maja Horst, a researcher who analyzed this movement, the protesters created 37,000 copies of 52 playing cards, criticizing traditional Chinese medicine. Since poker is a very popular game in China, using the card game against traditional Chinese medicine is the most creative and creative way to reach the widest possible population.
Observers point out that the “activists” are very well educated and even wealthier than the average Chinese population and that they are already familiar with the practices and developments of modern medicine. The demonstrators are also meeting with school authorities to convince children and are seeking to impose courses in school curricula that have the disadvantages of traditional medicine.
Another Chinese researcher, Qiaoyan Zhu, who works at the University of Copenhagen’s communications department, collected data from thousands of science activists, social media outlets, internet forums and physical meetings. While collecting the data, it is observed that, more and more, Chinese hospitals and doctors would use modern medicine.
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