Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

2304 readers

73 users here now

Health: physical and mental, individual and public.

Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.

See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.

Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.

Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.

Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.

Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

WhoRoger@lemmy.world

RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world

Awa@lemmy.world

Acupuncture Is Useless (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by godfree2@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Myles Power investigates. Acupuncture, considered superstitious and irrational as far back as the seventeenth century, gained popularity in the west when it was reintroduced by the Chinese Communist government in 1949. This reinstatement of the once outlawed practice was possibly driven by nationalistic motives or the need to provide basic healthcare to a large population. Since its adoption acupuncture has been extensively studied and is now generally seen as ineffective, although some argue that it may have limited applications due to the placebo effect. However, I believe that the placebo effect has been exaggerated, even by prominent skeptics, allowing pseudoscience to firmly get one foot in the door.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Awa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I am going to lock this post, though I would rather remove it. The information provided on the video and the video creator's website is not proof or evidence. The studies referred to are 8+ years old, which in the research community is considered outdated. Just because a site has .org does not mean it contains reliable information. Scientific evidence is more than stringing along several poorly correlating studies done by individual companies or persons. Also, what may work for some may not work for you and vice-versa. Everyone's biology, physiology, and other relevant backgrounds are different and should be taken into consideration when posting health-based information.

You are free to bring up topics to discuss here, but next time you post a video with a wall of text directly from the video summary, I will remove it. If you want to start out with a personal discussion and link information within your post to check out, I will consider allowing it as long as the intention is to create a constructive discussion, not merely being dismissive of alternative viewpoints.

Furthermore, I will update community rules as the action of posting links videos with no (or no original context to initiate a healthy dialogue between users) has become more prevalent. Please consider this a warning.