Acupuncture is quackery.
As with naturopathy (a medical pseudo- specialty that embraces acupuncture and other so-called traditional Chinese medicine), when I write about acupuncture I like to start out with a provocative statement, a statement of dare I say it? judgment in order to shock new readers and let them know exactly where I m coming from. Why I consider acupuncture to be quackery now, after years of not being sure, is simple and well documented in many posts on this blog. (Just type acupuncture into the search box if you don t believe me; here s an example.) Basically, I started really reading the acupuncture literature. I mean