Friday, November 23, 2007
Study: Acupuncture Works
A recent German study demonstrated that acupuncture, even fake acupuncture, worked better than conventional care to relieve chronic back pain. What do you think?
Sasha Makepeace,
Systems Analyst
"Whenever I stick needles in myself, I feel better. Of course, they are full of drugs."
Doug May,
Barber
"Conventional care being the eight minutes of therapy after waiting four hours in a hard plastic chair? Yeah, how did that fail?"
Brad Cohn,
Guitar Maker
"Isn't all acupuncture 'fake acupuncture?'"
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