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The Skeptics Guide #862 - Jan 15 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Medical Acupuncture - The Journal Medical Acu Puncture

The study that they were talking about in retraction, watch, it appeared in journal medical acupuncture. They looked at the experiences of a dozen veterans at an ohio v a hospital who'd purportedly self administered acupuncture to treat chronic pain. Acipuncturists themselves cannot demonstrate that acipuncture points a exist in their own research. And even if they did, it would kind of only make sense for pain. Like, i don't even understand how acu puncture can do anything for cancer.

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