Acupuncture:
Acupuncture and history: The “ancient” therapy that’s been around for several decades by David Ramey
"Dozens killed by incorrectly placed acupuncture needles" by Ian Sample
"Acupuncture for IVF Revisited – More Tooth Fairy Science?"
Time Magazine: "Acupuncture for Bad Backs: Even Sham Therapy Works" by Alice Park
"Acupuncture Does Not Work for Back Pain" by Steven Novella
"The Rise of Placebo Medicine" by Steven Novella
"Needles in the skin cause changes in the brain, but acupuncture still doesn’t work" by David Gorski
"Oriental Medicine or Medical Orientalism?" by Ben Kavoussi
"AFP Promotes Acupuncture" by Hariet Hall
"Head-In-The-Sand Consumer Affairs" by Ben Kavoussi
"Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome" by Hariet Hall
"Acupuncture, the P-Value Fallacy, and Honesty" by Kimball Atwood
"Acupuncture for Hot Flashes" by Steven Novella
Reuters - "Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: experts"
"Acupuncture Does Not Work for IVF" by Steven Novella
The Guardian - "Acupuncture does not relieve childbirth pain, says study" by Denis Campbell
"A Pair of Acupuncture Studies" by Steven Novella
"When what an acupuncture study shows is much more interesting than what acupuncture believers think it shows" by Orac
"What could make acupuncture better? LASERS!" By The Quixotic Man
"Acupuncture CME" by Mark Crislip
"Hey! Placebo Acupuncture Worked Again!" By The Quixotic Man
"Acupuncture Pseudoscience in the NEJM" by Steven Novella
"Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the New England Journal of Medicine" by David Gorski
"NEJM and Acupuncture: Even the best can publish nonsense." by Mark Crislip
Another pointless "acupuncture" study misinterpreted by Orac
"More Evidence that Acupuncture is a Placebo" by Steven Novella
"Acupuncture clinics bend rules to get subsidy"
"Short Attention Span SBM" by Mark Crislip
"The Cargo Cult of Acupuncture" by Ben Kavoussi
"Integrative Medicine is the Butt of a Sokal-Type Hoax" by Harriet Hall
"Acupuncture and the Hazard of Nonsense" by Steven Novella
"California Forbids Chinese Bloodletting" by Ben Kavoussi
"The Acupuncture and Fasciae Fallacy" by Ben Kavoussi
"Compare and Contrast" by Mark Crislip
"That treatment is not based on science? Don’t Worry, says KevinMD." by Steven Novella
"Say it ain't so, Dr. Pho! Credulity towards alternative medicine on KevinMD" by Orac
Is “CAM” Fraud? by Jann Bellamy
"Acupuncture is equally effective with simulated needles"
"Another Acupuncture Fail" by Steven Novella
"How popular is acupuncture?" by Brennen McKenzie
"Acupuncture Revisited" by Harriet Hall
"EMDR and Acupuncture – Selling Non-specific Effects" by Steven Novella
"The Forefather of Acupuncture Energetics, a Charlatan?" by Ben Kavoussi
"Pragmatic Studies and Cinderella Medicine" by Harriet Hall
"Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite: journal fails"
"Acupuncture and Acoustic Waves" by Steven Novella
"Legislative Alchemy III: Acupuncture" by Jann Bellamy
"Acupuncture for Amblyopia" by David Weinberg
"Can we finally just say that acupuncture is nothing more than an elaborate placebo? Can we? (2012 edition)" by Orac
"An Acupuncture Meta-Analysis" by Steven Novella
“Acupuncture Anesthesia”: A Proclamation from Chairman Mao by Kimball Atwood:
Part I,
Part II,
Part III,
Part IV,
Redux
Mark Crislip - How Acupuncture "Works":
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