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B-cup *BOOB* 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

>
> Not sham,


Read the ****ing abstract, you idiot: http://tinyurl.com/9u76y

JAMA: Vol. 293 No. 17, May 4, 2005
Acupuncture for Patients With Migraine
A Randomized Controlled Trial

Klaus Linde, MD; Andrea Streng, PhD; et al...

Context Acupuncture is widely used to prevent migraine attacks, but the
available evidence of its benefit is scarce.

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture compared with
sham acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients with migraine....

Conclusion Acupuncture was no more effective than sham acupuncture in
reducing migraine headaches although both interventions were more
effective than a waiting list control....

Click on the link above for the rest of the abstract.

> We don't know much about it,


We know that it has a placebo effect: the placebo -- SHAM acupuncture --
group received the same benefits as the "real" acupuncture group.

> except the results have amazed doctors.


According to whom?