I suspect acupuncture-works will not be back for further conversation.
Apparently he does not like being needled. 
I think he just didn’t like to have his bubble popped.
-XT
Enough with the acupuncture puns, please-I think we get the point.
Well, you are a sharp one. 
-XT
These are not as far as I can tell blinded studies. That’s a big problem. It’s not easy to blind an acupuncture study, because people usually know when they’ve been given acupuncture. Nonetheless, there are ways, and there are questions about studies that are not blinded.
James Randi is writing a book to which I make a small contribution: I looked at more than 300 acupuncture studies on PubMed to see if they were positive or negative, and whether they were large enough and designed in ways to tell us much. Spoiler alert: there are a few studies that suggest some results for certain uses in certain ways, but they are not conclusive, and the evidence falls far short of the claims. Acupuncture is being pushed far more than is justified.
Let me guess. The positive results are in categories where the positivity is highly subjective and known to be placebo-ish; i.e., pain reduction.
More or less.
By the way, I said 300 studies in my original post and I should have said 300 cites. They weren’t all studies.