Does acupuncture really work?

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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I offer this treatise from 2008:

9/Oct/2008
PUNCTURING THE ACUPUNCTURE MYTH

by Harriet Hall, M.D.

BY DEFINITION, “ALTERNATIVE” MEDICINE IS MEDICINE THAT HAS NOT BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN and has not been accepted into mainstream scientific medicine.
The question I keep hearing is, “But what about acupuncture? It’s been proven to work, it’s supported by lots of good research, more and more doctors are using it,
and insurance companies even pay for it.” It’s time the acupuncture myth was punctured — preferably with an acupuncture needle. Almost everything you’ve heard about
acupuncture is wrong.

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I expect your post is in response to this column.

Also, it looks like your submission is a complete copy/paste of this article, which is a violation of this site’s copyright infringement policy. I’ll ask a moderator to clean it up.