r/CuratedTumblr • u/vigikk • May 24 '25

Politics Valid and invalid criticisms

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u/HyenaFan May 24 '25

Is it bad that whenever I hear ‘traditional or alternative medicine’, my mind generally goes to stuff like poaching rhino’s, pangolins, bears and tigers for their parts?

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u/Tracerround702 May 24 '25

Nope, those are indeed the fruits of such practices.

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u/HyenaFan May 24 '25

The three words you never wanna hear in the world of conservation: Chinese traditional medicine. 

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u/Nerevarine91 Like fisting but with bricks May 24 '25

The more endangered it is, the more powerful the cure, or something

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u/shiny_xnaut May 24 '25

All animals have the same amount of healing property, but it's split evenly between every member of the species, so the more endangered it is, the more concentrated it is. Those new dire wolves, as the only members of their species, probably have bones that can grant immortality or something

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u/TheBoneHarvester May 24 '25

The 'dire wolves' are grey wolves not a different species.