I’ve noticed that, whenever I criticize acupuncture as the quackery based on prescientific mysticism and theatrical placebo that it is, inevitably some who claim to “hate woo” will express *considerable* displeasure.

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In fact, even the thin needles used in acupuncture are a recent “innovation.” Before the late 1920s, needles worry much larger and acupuncture was basically very much like bloodletting.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-reality-of-ancient-wisdom-acupuncture-and-tcm-werent-so-great/ …
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In the 1930s a Chinese pediatrician named Cheng Dan’an proposed that the “lost art” of acupuncture be resurrected because now its actions could be explained through neurology. He replaced coarse needles with the fine filiform needles in use today.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/04/what-department-of-family-medicine-university-of-michigan-teaches-acupuncture/ …
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Just a few problems here. First, the Communist Revolution was from 1948-1952. Mao and the Communists were a bit busy fighting a war to promulgate TCM in the late 1940s. Second, the Communist Party in China rejected anything tainted with “traditional” which saw its fullest
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expression during the Cultural Revolution. Next there is evidence for the existence of what would be called “TCM” outside of China prior to the Communist Revolution. Yes, hold TCM to the same rigor we apply to all Medicine, but don’t going revising history to support you end.
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It is a shame WHO seem to support TCM
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I asked an MD colleague who is from China about that. She had not heard about the real acupuncture background, and she’s been away from China for decades. She was open to reading up on it, so SBM win?
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