Chairman Mao: The real inventor of “traditional Chinese medicine”

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4. You've the same placebo effect as with any other placebo effect.

Also, the plural of anecdote is not data.

Animal acupuncture
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/animal-acupuncture/

Is There a Placebo Effect for Animals?
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-there-a-placebo-effect-for-animals/

The History of Veterinary Acupuncture: It’s Not What You Think
http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2010/07/the-history-of-veterinary-acupuncture-its-not-what-you-think/

Can we finally just say that acupuncture is nothing more than an elaborate placebo?
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-we-finally-just-say-that-acupuncture-is-nothing-more-than-an-elaborate-placebo/


BTW, I once convinced myself that it worked, including on my dog. I challenge my beliefs regularly. The evidence that does not do what "practitioners" claim it does is overwhelming. In the meantime, we allow people to spend years at school, accruing incredible debt to become acupuncturists. It makes no sense.