WHO endores acupuncture?

[Angrboda]

Apparently the World Health Organization has a whole list of diseases that it approves acupuncture as a treatment for.

http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js...#Js4926e.5

What's the problem with this? Well.... acupuncture is based on the idea that disease is caused by the disruption of qi, or your life energy, and that acupuncture points correct this balance. Great, except that there is no qi, this is medieval medicine that has been thrust upon the modern world. Numerous studies have been done where 'incorrect' acupuncture points have been done, and all of them have come to the same conclusion: Placebo affect.

The world health organization endorsing something like this is irresponsible, dangerous, and results in them losing significant credibility when it comes to real science.

What evidence of your credentials do your present to support your implicit assertion that your second guessing the professional judgement of WHO is worth listening to?

One doesn't need a lot of credentials to read the report and conclude it's rubbish. The report, by a TCM doctor, lists acupuncture as effective for angina pectoris based on patients with aphasia (difficulty comprehending or producing speech) improving slightly better according to a scoring system while receiving acupuncture than those who received no treatment (80% versus 70%). I stopped reading at that point.