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by pxmpxm 917 days ago
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.
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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.