Acupuncture

From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics 

From the archive in 1992, HB Gibson looks at the rise and fall - and rise again - of medical acupuncture in Western society.

Dragons’ Den has a quackery problem that goes far beyond ear seeds

While recent attention has understandably been on Dragons' Den's promotion of ME/cfs quackery, the BBC show's flirtation with pseudoscience runs much deeper

Dragons’ Den’s uncritical promotion of ear seeds is an insult to ME/cfs patients like me

The Dragons' Den Acu Seeds debacle shows how understandably desperate ME/cfs are - and how vulnerable to misinformation from authoritative sources

Auriculotherapy: why poking needles into your earlobe is, essentially, pointless

Auriculotherapy - ear acupuncture - is a popular alternative therapy, even though proponents can't even agree which part of the ear does what

The World Health Organisation is misguided in its handling of ‘traditional’ medicine

The WHO is right to say we should respect indigenous, 'traditional' medical knowledge - but proper respect means applying scrutiny and rigour

Acupuncture remains one of the most enduring pseudo-therapies – even though it does not work

Given there's no reliable evidence acupuncture works, and it has been associated with significant harm, its risks outweigh its benefits.

The erroneous assumptions of so-called alternative medicine: Root causes

So-called alternative medicine practitioners are always keen to tell their patients they treat the root cause of disease - in reality, nothing could be further from the truth

When it comes to research, so-called alternative medicine is hostile to progress

Researchers who demonstrate alt-med to be ineffective are routinely, personally attacked - because practitioners are looking for vindication, not truth
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