# Does acupuncture really work?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-acupuncture-really-work/786435 "2017-05-12T09:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![wreckage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@wreckage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wreckage)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-acupuncture-really-work/786435/1 "2017-05-12T09:06:05Z")

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I offer this treatise from 2008:

9/Oct/2008  
[PUNCTURING THE ACUPUNCTURE MYTH](http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-10-08/#feature)

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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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-acupuncture-really-work/786435/2 "2017-05-12T16:07:24Z")

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I expect your post is in response to [this column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2543/does-acupuncture-really-work).

Also, it looks like your submission is a complete copy/paste of [this article](http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-10-08/), which is a violation of this site’s copyright infringement policy. I’ll ask a moderator to clean it up.