[greglindahl]

It's harder than that. Acupuncture works better than a placebo, but it doesn't matter where you stick the needles, or if you use fake needles.

Acupuncture isn't medicine. It's a super-placebo.

[dragonwriter]

> Acupuncture works better than a placebo

IIRC, it works better than a sugar-pill placebo, but not better than injection-based placebo. Magnitude of the placebo effect is different by delivery mechanism.