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0 pointsdoo_daa3y ago0 comments

You are right and everyone makes mistakes and I'm sure much of the Huberman Lab content is great. I don't claim that acupuncture is invalid because it goes against my belief. I claim that it does not work because there are no credible studies that show that it does. The links you have provided are not to studies, they are to organisations that promote/sell acupuncture. [Edited to correct a typo]

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nopinsight3y ago

Thanks for your explanation of the rationale.

The links I provided are to trustworthy organizations in healthcare who usually practice evidence-based medicine.

There are many studies referenced here: https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/acupuncture-scienti...

This one is published in Cell: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30532-8

But of course, one can always find faults in most single studies. It's the accumulative amount of evidence that supports the claim that acupuncture often work for certain types of syndromes. Note that in medicine, few things have irrefutable proof as in math or even engineering.

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