Sorry, but if you support licensing acupuncturists, you are NOT "pro-science."https://twitter.com/sheologian/status/1175126837011386374 …
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Replying to @gorskon
While data is limited on acupuncture, many in
#pain and#addiction medicine support its further research for management of chronic and acute pain.@CMS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report discusses this on page 43. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pmtf-final-report-2019-05-23.pdf …2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
CMS might have stuck to evidence, but from that page: 'Acupuncture is a recognized form of therapy that has its origins in ancient Chinese medicine. It involves manipulating a system of meridians where “life energy” flows by inserting needles into identified acupuncture points.'
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Replying to @soupvector @bethlinas and
I'm not averse at all to acknowledged/open placebos - they can be effective, amazingly - but CMS should not condone pseudoscience or misleading the public. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30279235
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Open placeboes or "placeboes without deception," as advocates call them, have never been shown to work. Every trial that claims to be testing "placeboes without deception" has, in fact, used deception. (Ted Kaptchuk, I'm talking to you.)
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