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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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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Oh, and acupuncture doesn’t work for chronic pain. There’s no effect above placebo.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/01/13/acupuncture-does-not-work-for-chronic-pain/ …
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