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 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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Basically, crude bloodletting based on astrology that had previously been acupuncture became a system using delicate, thin, filiform needles, with little or no blood seen.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/07/european-atherosclerosis-society-publishing-quackademic-pseudoscience-tcm/ …
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