There’s been a lot of negative talk on chiropractors and how they don’t really help, science wise. What about acupuncture?
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There is a part of the anatomy called the [interstitium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitium) that medical science only discovered a few years ago. It at least could offer a plausible explanation as to how acupuncture could work. Yet most docs saw, and ignored it for years. There’s a pretty good [episode of Radiolab](https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium) that goes much deeper.
I’m always hesitant to dismiss something just because science hasn’t validated it. There’s an infinite amount of undiscovered phenomena in the world, sometimes because we overlook what’s right in front of our faces. Not too long ago, science would institutionalize women for “hysteria,” lobotomize the mentally ill, and sterilize disfavored women to “strengthen” the population. Hell it’s only been 50 years since medical science stopped considering homosexuality a pathology.
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