The Science behind acupuncture

Question

There’s been a lot of negative talk on chiropractors and how they don’t really help, science wise. What about acupuncture?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The problem with trying to scientifically test acupuncture is that it’s impossible to do blind (let alone double blind) trials. You cannot fake poking needles into someone.

So there’s no way to prove whether it does anything useful or not. All we know is that it is mostly harmless, unlike chiropractic.