Today's marchforscience. looking from third and pine all the up past boren.

Listen if you think it works for you, great, but what you are doing is using an anecdote instead of data. Your personal experience is worthless to science. That's not how it works. There's actually a saying 'the plural of anecdote is not data'. It doesn't matter if you think it works or not because you can't tell if you are just placeboing yourself. Which you undoubtedly are. Acupuncture is proven to not work. End of story. It is a complete sham. They have done the studies, they have done the meta reviews. It does not work. People experience the same 'relief' no matter where the needles are put, and even if no needles are inserted. It doesn't matter. That is the very definition of placebo. Even in the wiki link you sent me it says there is no evidence of efficacy and that it shouldnt work because the theoretical pathway is complete nonsense. There is no such thing as acupressure points.

There is currently no standardized form of dry needling, no body of evidence that indicates its efficacy, and there is no medical action pathway that provides a theoretical basis for why dry needling should be efficacious.

It's fake. Obviously, since there is no mechanism for it. And this is my problem with the science march. Its not a science march. It's an anti trump march. Which is fine, but what this country needs is an actual understanding of science and how it works. Why anecdote isn't data. Why single studies are meaningless. Why replication is so important etc etc.

Public understanding of the scientific method is around 6%. That doesn't mean 'I accept the earth is round and climate change is real' it means 'I understand the philosophy of science, why the methods are important, and what can actually be stated based on the evidence'. That's the march we actually need.

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