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RE: Chinese Pseudoscience #1: Acupuncture 针刺 - Part 1: History
History of acupuncture, recent times :
The University of Montpellier which is one of the oldest European University have started to teach acupuncture in the faculty of Medecine, more than 20 years ago. After more than 20 years of teachings, acupuncture is more and more integrated into the French hospital treatments.
And the NHS funds it, so what? Is that meant to be evidence?
Also, from a professor of that very University:
Something being taught or used in a place surrounded by academia is not evidence of it working (or not working), it's just a statement
Several universities have been teaching acupuncture these last 20 years (it is an unquantified fact)
More than 150,000 acupuncturists have been trained with a program that take more than 8 years studies. ( it is a fact)
These doctors are treating about 500,000 individuals every days in the world (it is an estimate)
These 500,000 people are paying their doctor every days and come back home and say to there family and friends, I have been treated by acupuncture. (this is a social behavior)
Then a statistician make a meta analyse comparing all treatments and all diseases in the same meta analyse and says "ok, acupuncture is not more efficient than random puncture".
I am going to make a guess (this is a guess) if I make a meta analyse to see if a chemical drug which is efficient against foot fungus is also efficient against headache, I will find that this drug is no more efficient than a placebo effect, but this is a guess only.