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Re:Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don't Have Back Pain by michaelkeenan on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:31PM (#9680147)
Cochrane reviews show that acupuncture works for some types of pain: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21359919

(It's not mentioned in the abstract I linked, but searching Cochrane's site shows that they look at studies comparing acupuncture to a "fake" acupuncture, which is presumably putting needles randomly.)

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Re:Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don't Have Back Pain by panglott on Monday June 08, 2015 @01:06PM (#9680482)
Well, that appears to be real science about acupuncture. Acupuncture isn't a science based not on whether it works or not (there appears to be some scientific evidence that it can), but rather because it is based on handed-down traditional knowledge and personal experience rather than empirical research.

That doesn't make it bad, it just makes it culture.

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