B-cup Bob wrote:
>> BOGUS, SHAM, FAKE acupuncture treatments. Read the study. Here's what
>> the abstract says:
>>
>> Interventions Acupuncture, *sham acupuncture*, or waiting list
>> control. Acupuncture and *sham acupuncture* were administered by
>> specialized physicians and consisted of 12 sessions per patient
>> over 8 weeks. Patients completed headache diaries from 4 weeks
>> before to 12 weeks after randomization and from week 21 to 24
>> after randomization.
>>
>> Conclusion Acupuncture was no more effective than *sham*
>> acupuncture in reducing migraine headaches although both
>> interventions were more effective than a waiting list control.
>> http://tinyurl.com/9u76y
>>
>>> You may not like it but that was the only way for the participants to
>>> be fooled.
>>
>> Both the placebo (SHAM) and "real" acupuncture groups were "fooled."
>> Acupuncture's benefits are placebo effect. The researchers concluded,
>> "Acupuncture was no more effective than sham acupuncture in reducing
>> migraine headaches..."
>>
>>> BTW, though it doesn't meet your standards,
>>
>> It doesn't meet *scientific* standards.
>>
>>> it was listed as one of the 50 major medical breakthroughs in the
>>> last year.
>>
>> In a popular news magazine -- not by a scientific or medical journal.
>>
>> Still haven't figured out how NOT to respond to your own posts, have you.
>
> Well, according to News week

According to the study's authors, "*Acupuncture* *was* *no* *more*
*effective* *than* *sham* *acupuncture*."

> I invite other's to read the page specified for accuracy.

I invite you to lay off posting until you comprehend what *Acupuncture*
*was* *no* *more* *effective* *than* *sham* *acupuncture* actually means.