[_heimdall]

> Acupuncture isn't actual medicine.

That's an extremely dismissive take on a practice that has been around for an extremely long time.

"Alternative medicines", which itself is a dismissive name, get thrown out way to quickly in the west.

[pxmpxm]

Blood letting and crystals have been around for a while as well; I don't think that's really the benchmark you wanna go with for healthcare treatment.

[_heimdall]

Modern medicine also had plenty of practices along the way that we now disagree with. Cherrypicking two examples to discredit the acupuncture is a terrible way to prove a point.

My argument wasn't that alternative medicines must be just as effective because they're old. My point was simply that hand waving anything that isn't western medicine is a very close minded view in a community that is so often pushing for equality and open mindedness above all else.