The DEATH TOUCH

[Goldenmane]

The traditional jing-luo (meridian) system does not correspond to anything in modern anatomy-physiology. It is a cultural construct that satisfies expectations of how things are supposed to work within a standard cosmology. While not scientific in a modern sense, it does act as a system for organizing empirical knowledge. In other words, it may now be viewed as a less than optimum format for explaining perfectly good observations.

That's probably the best I've ever seen that put.

I've been arguing that point for years, but never managed to get it across so succinctly.

[Edit 2: same basic argument goes for "qi"]