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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 22 Feb 2018

      What’s more quackademic medicine than Harvard’s acupuncture course? Maybe Duke’s reflexology course! https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/02/23/whats-more-quackademic-medicine-than-harvards-acupuncture-course-maybe-dukes-reflexology-course/ …pic.twitter.com/Y5yEc5XdPl

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    2. Elaine Schattner‏ @ESchattner 23 Feb 2018
      Replying to @gorskon

      I'd be interested in Harvard's acupuncture course. So many people I know say it's helped reduce their pain. Maybe it works in ways doctors don't understand.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Feb 2018
      Replying to @ESchattner

      It doesn't. It's theatrical placebo. http://www.dcscience.net/2013/05/30/acupuncture-is-a-theatrical-placebo-the-end-of-a-myth/ …

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    4. Elaine Schattner‏ @ESchattner 23 Feb 2018
      Replying to @gorskon

      I've never had acupuncture. But I had patients who swore by it, and friends in more recent years. Once, for a project in Journalism School at Columbia, I went and watched an acupuncturist do her thing. I found it (& where she practiced) so weird, I could be objective about it

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Feb 2018
      Replying to @ESchattner

      10 or 15 years ago, I used to think that there MIGHT be something to acupuncture. Then I started reading the acupuncture literature in detail as studies came out. It didn't take me long to see that there's no there there. Theatrical placebo.

      5:30 AM - 23 Feb 2018
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        2. Elaine Schattner‏ @ESchattner 23 Feb 2018
          Replying to @gorskon

          yeah, but *whose* literature? Like reading Prasad on precision oncology? Is it anti-accupuncture western medical lit?

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 Feb 2018
          Replying to @ESchattner

          Nope. I read the studies that acupuncturists tout as the best evidence for acupuncture. For instance, the 2012 Vickers meta-analysis.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-we-finally-just-say-that-acupuncture-is-nothing-more-than-an-elaborate-placebo/ …

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        2. John Blaska‏ @jblaska 23 Feb 2018
          Replying to @gorskon @ESchattner

          Millions of acupuncture needles applied every day in ~140 countries around the world from field ops - hospitals - clinics, must be a pretty darn good show. And god forbid people learn to touch their feet. Harvard, Duke, et al must be the ones missing something #ShowMustGoOn

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        3. Elaine Schattner‏ @ESchattner 23 Feb 2018
          Replying to @jblaska @gorskon

          I'm not convinced by multitudes doing acupuncture, either way. A lot of people do really stupid stuff.

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