"Although acupuncture and herbalism have been practised in one form or another for thousands of years, most of what we now call 'traditional' Chinese medicine is quite a recent invention.It was concocted in the 1950s from a hotchpotch of folk myths and superstitions.
Our hopes of being taken seriously as a research institution are being severely damaged by our association with such quackery,..."
-- Dr. Mike Eslea, stating the case in an "open letter" to Dr. Malcolm McVicar, vice chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire, and partially reprinted in the Lancaster Evening Post.U.K..
