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How to navigate skepticism and belief in traditional medicine study groups

Our study group has been meeting weekly to learn Unani diagnostic methods, but two members keep dismissing it as 'pseudoscience' while others are frustrated that we're not taking it seriously enough, and I don't know how to keep us together when we have such different relationships to the material.

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A learning community is fragmenting because its members carry different relationships to faith and evidence.

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“Where Are You with Unani and Greco-Islamic medicine?”

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