Acupuncture is, of course, theatrical placebo.https://twitter.com/bsdudleymd/status/1056289600908357633 …
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Replying to @joandark11 @gorskon
What makes you think it is 1000's if years old (it's not) and why would that make it good?
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Replying to @not_that_CK @joandark11
Traditional Chinese medicine is actually a construct popularized by Chairman Mao. What passes for TCM today was basically created in the 1940s-1950s.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …
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Replying to @joandark11 @not_that_CK
Nope. Just historical fact, as I explain in depth in the post. But if blithely dismissing history with such a ridiculous phrase makes you feel better and lets you reject history without considering it, oh well...
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Replying to @joandark11 @gorskon
Your responses seem out of kilter with the conversation. Simply pointing out that acupuncture is neither ancient nor magical isn't that emotional a claim is it?
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Replying to @not_that_CK @joandark11
Yep. Think of it this way. The filiform needles now used for acupuncture were first introduced into acupuncture less than 100 years ago. Before that, acupuncture used lancets much like those used for bloodletting, which is more or less what acupuncture was before that.
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Indeed, @HHSkepDoc wrote about how brutal and primitive TCM was as recently as 105 years ago.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-reality-of-ancient-wisdom-acupuncture-and-tcm-werent-so-great/ …
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