User talk:Erankin

Acupuncture
Please review WP:MEDRS, the requirement for reliable citations for medical articles. A book, which could generously be called a "tertiary" source is often a synthesis and is more often than not, never peer reviewed. A citation from the journal of CAM is laughably one of the worst you could choose, because the peer-review is done by other believers in it. You should also be aware of undue weight given to WP:FRINGE ideas. There is very little evidence of anything that supports acupuncture, outside of maybe a placebo effect. We cannot give weight to any statements that appear to make it seem like acupuncture is actually useful for anything. And given that it has nothing more than a placebo effect, the adverse effects make it even more problematic. The article is very contentious, mainly because of individuals who push a POV that it works, when almost all science and clinical trials show it doesn't.  Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 17:45, 6 May 2011 (UTC)