Three types of acupuncture therapy, an individually tailored program, standard therapy and a simulation involving toothpicks at key acupuncture points, are equally effective for chronic low back pain, even though the third option is probably only a placebo. How can we tell what's real and what's fake?
Researcher Daniel Cherkin says, "...
Is a acupuncture just a placebo? Scientists think it may convince people that it's making them better?so it does. They can't figure out how else it could work. In the recent movie "21 Grams," a narrator says that people who have been weighed just before and after death have been found to have lost 21 grams (less than an ounce), so that must be...