Hell yes. I will fight and, if it comes to it, die on this hill. Acupuncture is quackery. It’s mystical pseudoscience. And it’s not harmless. https://t.co/pFi7nAanmc
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Replying to @bayofarizona @beyerstein
There’s been plenty of research, and it’s consistent with acupuncture being no more than a theatrical placebo.
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I don’t know David. They’ve only had a few thousand years to study acupuncture. Let’s be patient and see where this goes.
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Replying to @SBMPediatrics @gorskon and
I find myself wondering, what is the control group for the study... having some one totally randomly insert small gauge needles while muttering indistinctly about meridians and power lines?
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Replying to @Pmaxwellfnp @gorskon and
Or not inserting the needle but the subject thinks they are.
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Replying to @SBMPediatrics @Pmaxwellfnp and
And when there's no difference between experimental and control conditions, acupuncture boosters say, "This goes to show how powerful acupuncture is & how easy it is to manipulate the chi by pricking/poking/pressing/triggering a generalized endorphin response with random sticks.
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Yup. “Real” or verum” acupuncture produces effects no better than sham acupuncture, but acupuncturists still claim that it works. If a pharmaceutical company tried to sell a drug whose effects are indistinguishable from placebo, it wouldn’t be approved—and rightly so!
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