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It's highly poisonous, but it can be efficacious in the treatment of whooping cough.
Es muy venenosa, pero puede ser eficaz en el tratamiento de la tos ferina, y también del asma...
There were any number of Western scientists who claimed that traditional Chinese medicine could be efficacious; but what this woman was saying—and the man in the market with his donkeys' umbilical cords—was surely complete nonsense?
Numerosos científicos occidentales sostenían que la medicina china tradicional podía ser eficaz, pero sin duda no eran más que disparates las afirmaciones de esa mujer y las del hombre del mercado que pregonaba los cordones umbilicales de burro.
The more utilitarian-minded defenders of art justify its existence by insisting upon its potential political efficacy, which is usually overstated. (Artists themselves are especially fond of overstating it.) But even if you believe in the potential political efficacy of art—as I do—few artists would dare count on its timeliness.
Los que defienden el arte desde una perspectiva utilitarista justifican su existencia insistiendo en una potencial eficacia política que suele exagerarse (a los propios artistas les encanta exagerarla), pero incluso si crees, como yo, en la potencial eficacia política del arte, difícilmente confías en que, además de ser eficaz, llegue en el momento justo.
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