accupuncture

Hi fellow skeptics, I just got back from the Bastyr food and herb festival. My parentals took me. :rolleyes: I saw some... interesting things there. There were about 5 herbalist tents, 1 naturopathy tent, 1 tent that was offering herbal foot-baths, 1 team of acupuncturists, 2 vegetarians, 1...

Last week a station in my area ran a piece on a local vet who gives accupuncture to dogs. http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=11658567 If you watch the video (it's somewhere on the site) you'll notice one of the pets yelp in pain when a needle is inserted. And of course, the smiling...

National Public Radio reports today a tremendous medical study of arthritis, accupuncture has a significant benefit to remove pain of arthritis, better than placebo and sham accupuncture. The ancient knowledge of the Chinese wise culture is absolutely proven.

I just heard this on the news (the pop-star gossip news of course). Apparently "Gerry Halliwell is planning to get pregnant, and she's using accupuncture to 'prepare her body' for pregnancy", said the commentator, "but first she has to find herself a guy as well". Well, realise that this...

I was just browsing Yahoo and came up with the latest claim for accupuncture. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041104/us_nm/life_facelift_dc_2 Once again a fool and her money are soon parted. I don't think accupuncture has ever worked for anything. Anyone disagree?

I recently discovered that accupuncture treatment is being given free on the NHS (ie. us taxpayers end up paying for this nonsense!) I was so incensed that I wrote to my MP, and have now started several lines of communication with John Reid and his office (Secretary of State for Health), Jane...