Acupunture - pseudoscience?

[Aractus]

Is your medical logic/thinking that limited? Can you not think of any other human disease that exists outside of germ theory?

Of course there's psychology as well, there's organic and non-organic substances that also cause disease, asbestos comes to mind. I was just simplifying it. The point is that the traditional belief is in the meridian theory of disease not the germ theory. Same with the chiropractic theory of disease which states that all disease and infirmity is caused by spinal misalignments. The only thing that chiropractic adjustments do anything for is lower back pain, and even then it's a less effective treatment than the biomedical approach, and only has a short-term effect not a long-term one. With acupuncture, it doesn't even have claim to be able to help significantly for one condition, let alone all the other health conditions it cures to claim. And nothing in medical science even remotely resembles meridians, so yes it is far-fetched.

As I mentioned earlier, scepticism alone is not a reason to refuse a non-invasive, non-dangerous, inexpensive treatment option that may be of benefit (i.e. Pickle Juice), especially when the evidence for other treatments is just as thin, and the theory behind how the condition it treats occurs is not very well understood. You have to start somewhere, and if you don't try out these things you'll never know if they work or not.