> Which suggests to me that acupuncture works on the same basic principle that your doctor giving you sugar pills with a fancy name and strict instructions to

> Which suggests to me that acupuncture works on the same basic principle that your doctor giving you sugar pills with a fancy name and strict instructions to take one every four hours with a glass of water works. Except that sugar pills don't give anyone HIV or Hep C. > We can never say "is dangerous" or "is not dangerous". What we can say is X esposure leads to Y harm. Water in sufficient quantities will kill you. No. Harm is relative to reward. Cancer drugs are extremely harmful. But dying from cancer is worse. The reward for acupuncture is 0. Just sit and eat a Twix instead. It has the same medicinal benefits. The harm of acupuncture is absolutely real, as I linked above, people have died, people have gotten chronic diseases.