RE: Acupunture - pseudoscience?
September 23, 2016 at 9:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2016 at 9:20 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(September 23, 2016 at 8:55 am)mcolafson Wrote: [...]Why should I believe these studies more than personal experience?[...]
My "personal experience" tells me that the Sun and the stars revolve around the Earth. Smart people figured out, that this isn't the case and presented evidence. Personal experience - especially if it's that of other people - is worthless, when it comes to asserting the truth.
Surely - if acupuncture did work, then there would be no reason, why scientists couldn't test it, validate it and find ways to use it, just like they did with virtually ALL other "alternative" medicine that turned out to be working. Believe me - "Big Pharma" would looooove to sell you needles, incense sticks and CDs of Eastern-sounding muzak, if they could prove efficacy of sticking people with needles, in a relaxing, slightly exotic atmosphere, beyond the aforementioned placebo effect.
Alas - acupuncture enthusiasts have no evidence to show, only claims and unverifiable anecdotes. That is what quackery looks like.
(September 23, 2016 at 8:55 am)mcolafson Wrote: On a side note, is it too hard for you people to express yourselves without vulgarisms?
It really f*ckin' is.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
