Sounds like teaching.

Texas is real id compliant. Has been for like seven years iirc

Cool, then don’t respond?

Huh, TIL. Had some classmates that are Mormon growing up and I guess they were from the spirit of the law group.

Wait, they can have caffeine now?

Depends, can the Amish get the support of the states with former Mormon bounty laws? That would be a wild mercenary third party

Because that’s the basics of discussion. You use a source, you link it to support your words.

Cool, dunno why you can’t link it since you are the one using it.

Mmk and I have no reason to take anything you say seriously. Guess you’re just a lying sack of shit.

You made the claim, you provide the source.

Yeah and those would be a lot of the less helpful ritualism described.
It may get a new name when the actual medical use is determined and demonstrated but for now it’s still acupuncture.
There’s a lot of terrible things that shouldn’t happen in real medicine (like pretending different races have different pain tolerances, or over prescription of medicines like opioids or even antibiotics) but we don’t blame the technique or medicine in those instances so much as we blame the individual doctors doing that shit and the groups that perpetuate it.

Would I go get acupuncture treatment now?
Maybe if I had certain assurances like clean needle use and the use is limited to areas like joints but even then probably not until I see better evidence of cause and effect for the treatment. I just keep an open mind to avoid what could be inherent biases that would discount the idea in it’s entirety instead of trying to understand why there are some successes. Kinda like how I’m not going to go eat a bunch of herbs from traditional Chinese medicine but would be interested in understanding how the components of those herbs affect the body to see if there is something that can be pulled and enhanced to modern medical treatment.

Acupuncture is a bit of a different animal though, there’s been some research coming out that it triggers a different layer (connective tissue iirc) in ways that we don’t really understand but seem to promote beneficial responses through triggering various receptors and nerve responses. I would still group it closer to alt med but it’s one of the ones I think might have a grain of usefulness underlying a bunch of less helpful ritualism.

I’m going to need a source for those claims.

Seems like they either deleted their account or something squirrelly is going on since I can’t pull them up.

Depends on where you live. California, Texas? Yeah close to nothing in comparison with someone from Wisconsin. For some reason that I keep getting told isn’t political favoritism.

I think it’s just called the Midas shits.

Yeah that’s immediately what I remembered and it horrifies me. Dude needs a trip on the Titan to see the Titanic.