{"id":362,"date":"2008-10-21T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-10-21T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T16:47:38","slug":"everything-you-know-about-acupuncture-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/everything-you-know-about-acupuncture-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you know about acupuncture is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m in the skeptical mood,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/?p=252#more-252\"> a nice post from <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Steve Novella of the New England Skeptical Societ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> y<\/span> Harriet Hall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alternative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d medicine is by definition medicine that has not been scientifically proven and has not been accepted into mainstream scientific medicine. The question I keep hearing is, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what about acupuncture? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been proven to work, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supported by lots of good research, more and more doctors are using it, and insurance companies even pay for it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time the acupuncture myth was punctured \u00e2\u20ac\u201c preferably with an acupuncture needle. Almost everything you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard about acupuncture is wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he<\/span> she goes on to say why. Worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Bad, lazy Greg. Sorry Harriet. In my defense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/\">Science-Based Medicine<\/a> looks so much like Steve&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theness.com\/neurologicablog\/\">NeuroLogica Blog<\/a>, that I forgot where I was. Same colors and template. That&#8217;s what I get for trying to post a few bits while on the morning coffee break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another UPDATE<\/strong>: You can read more about (and from) Harriet Hall from her own site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdoc.info\/index.html\">SkepDoc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m in the skeptical mood, a nice post from Steve Novella of the New England Skeptical Societ y Harriet Hall: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alternative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d medicine is by definition medicine that has not been scientifically proven and has not been accepted into mainstream scientific medicine. The question I keep hearing is, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what about acupuncture? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been proven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skeptic","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-5Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}