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There Is No Sham In Acupuncture

brainblogger.com — The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is one of the most common ways to see whether certain therapeutic treatments work. To conduct this test with acupuncture, scientists used “sham acupuncture” as a control procedure. But what they figured out was that there is no "sham acupuncture."

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  • trolleyfan, on 07/30/2008, -0/+1There is no *reality* in acupunture.

    BTW, explaining why it fails in double-blind test by saying "well, testing it makes it fail" is at best...failing.

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