(September 23, 2016 at 8:54 am)Esquilax Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 8:49 am)mcolafson Wrote: 1. What makes you think it is pseudoscience?
2. If it is pseudoscience, how does it help people?
I feel like the fact that you don't know how it helps people, such that you could just point to that and not have to ask that question, precludes it from being science right off the bat.
Scientists tend to, you know, require an understanding of the mechanism behind what's happening, before they'll accept that something is happening.
You have it backwards. It is not necessary to understand the mechanism behind something to recognize something is happening. In fact, recognition that something is happening is the impetus for the search for the mechanism.
The problem with arcupunture is studies do not offer strong support for something happening.
