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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I always wonder how people who get acupuncture don’t end up bleeding to death from all the needles that are inserted into their body.
Placebo effect is strong medicine. If you believe something will help, then your belief in it is enough to produce some effect. Just like voodoo curses.
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.
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