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Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death of woman at slap therapy workshop (apnews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MicroWave to c/health

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Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the UK for manslaughter by gross negligence after Danielle Carr-Gomm, a 71-year-old diabetic woman, died during his “slapping therapy” workshop in 2016.

Xiao encouraged Carr-Gomm to stop taking insulin, leading to her severe deterioration and death on the fourth day of the retreat.

Xiao, previously convicted of manslaughter in Australia for a similar death, showed no remorse and continued promoting his unscientific therapy in prison.

The case highlights the dangers of unregulated alternative treatments.

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[–] Noite_Etion 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tbf Chinese medicine is usually a load of crap, so they don't have a great reputation to ruin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's so many things called "Chinese medicine" that you can always point to something that actually works, like herbs and other extracts, but then the rest is just bullshit like "slapping" lmao.

[–] maxenmajs 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's right. My issue with traditional Chinese medicine is in how anti-science / alternative medicine advocates in North America fetishize it. It gets characterized as mysterious ancient wisdom that somehow works and doesn't need explaining.