This was translated into / written in English and published in a peer-reviewed journal (Neural Regeneration Research). And it’s complete crap.
Of course there is very bad research published by the West on alternative medicine too, but as the links I provide show, Chinese research is systematically and generally of very low quality. If China cannot produce good research, what can we expect of other countries?
I’m not sure losing the non-English literature is a big problem. A lot of foreign research is really bad. A little demonstration from 5 days ago: I criticized a Chinese study on moxibustion https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/TisYM64ckLM
This was translated into / written in English and published in a peer-reviewed journal (Neural Regeneration Research). And it’s complete crap.
Of course there is very bad research published by the West on alternative medicine too, but as the links I provide show, Chinese research is systematically and generally of very low quality. If China cannot produce good research, what can we expect of other countries?
The language that I think most plausibly contains a disconnected scientific literature is Japanese.