Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Is Acupuncture A Scam?" video.

  1. Didn't the Chinese government already publicly state that there was no scientific evidence that acupuncture worked? You might as well get an untrained placeboist to poke you for half an hour at a fraction of the cost.
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  2. +CHRISTIANNWO I did. It was crap.
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  3. Mao Tse Tung said "Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don’t take Chinese medicine” - he was referring to Acupuncture at the time. The Chinese Communist party debunked it as being " superstitious". It has been debunked in over 3000 trials.
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  4. Generally I am incredibly sceptical of research conducted by someone with a massive vested interest in the research proving that what he is selling and has invested his life into mastering is true. I'll have to go with the meta study which suggested that acupuncture is primarily a placebo, and that what actual effects it produces are negligible.
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  5. Skepticism baffles you? Wow. I was told that homeopathy was a thing, it' seen supported by the queen of England. Reiki, Chiropracty, natural medicine, rhino horns, elephant tusks, - need I go on? Skepticism should surely be the default position of an experienced mind.As for cherry picking - well I certainly didn't read all 3000+ studies, nor even the full conclusion. When the concluding line says that acupuncture is likely little more than a placebo, then that pretty much trumps everything else. Frankly, I am sick to death of new agers being taken seriously at the expense of genuine medicine, leeching money from an already stretched health service simply because people seem to think that it's rude to question snake oil salesmen.On a personal level, I HAVE permitted supposed experts to use acupressure on me, with no result, and whilst I realise that's not exactly the same, the root belief in meridians and specific focal points is closely interconnected.
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  6. Well, I'll try to keep an open mind Christopher. What do you mean by the word "intervention"?
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