Acupuncture: what are the main fallacies? | Edzard Ernst

As if to celebrate the end of ‘Acupuncture Awareness Week’, I am off today to give a few lectures in Oslo. One title is most fitting: ACUPUNCTURE: FACTS AND FALLACIES. Here are some of the fallacies I intend to discuss:

• Appeal to popularity 
• Appeal to tradition 
• Science can explain how it works 
• Acupuncture is a ‘cure-all’ 
• It worked for me […]

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