Atheism/Theism and Pseudoscience

[Anomalocaris]

There may be a grain of truth somewhere in acupuncture, but the field is so intimately tied up with traditional Chinese medical mumbo jumbo like yin, yan and chi that doesn't even go for pseudoscience, and the practice of acupuncture is so devoid of any respectable functioning regulatory authority to determine what exactly is meant by doing it right, and who is properly trained and qualified, that IMHO most acupunctural establishments are substantively little different from faith healers, astrologers or palm readers.

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Acupuncture is actually legitimate I think, all the others are complete crap.
It just goes to show that atheists aren't automatically skeptics too.

I can't recall any study confirming acupuncture is anything more than placebo.

If that is the case, then it appears this is a placebo which requires proper administration to work right. Which in turn suggests there is more in it then placebo effect.

Acupuncture points are not consistent just because they were handed down through one single Chinese tradition. It appears late Stone Age Europeans also had a parallel tradition of acupuncture points very similar to traditional Chinese acupuncture points. Late Stone Age mummies from Europe show a pattern of body tattoos marking out Chinese acupuncture points.