BEIJING (AP) -- "Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers."
And if anyone believes that just the peasants are doing this then email me for that old bridge I'm trying to get rid of. Can't visit a chinese hamlet nor big city without walking past the many, many, apothecaries featuring dragons this or that, along with tigers liver, lions lung, and the ever popular whale penis. The nation that gave us acupuncture because until fairly recently not a one of them was interested in vivisection and had a clue about how the human body functioned, still thrives on useless remedies that do far more harm than good. China has offered absolutely, positively, without the shadow of a doubt, nothing of value to the sum of human knowledge, everything it has that may be considered even remotely efficacious or serviceable is stolen from the West, and none of this is changing anytime soon.
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