Skeptic Dad over at Science-Based Parenting blog has a very thorough take-down of acupuncture, including this gem:

acupuncture doesn’t work as claimed, because people who seek an acupuncturist may need actual medicine, and treating with placebo is unethical because deception must occur for the response to be most effective. As for the endorphins, those aren’t anything special. You can get the same response by pinching your skin, running a mile, or having sex.

Get all your questions about acupuncture answered in one handy article.

A couple interesting vaccination discussions have come up lately on one of my online mom support bulletin boards. One was about the MMR vaccine, and how it is apparently difficult to get it split up these days. Some women were going as far as ordering their vaccines from somewhere so they could take the separate shots to their doctors. It’s disheartening to read this kind of paranoid buzz. But the more surprising post was a query about homeopathic vaccinations. » Continue reading “Homeopathic Vaccinations?”

I’m not pregnant yet and my husband and I have been trying for a while, which is pretty fun, but we recently went to a doctor to help things along a bit. (That’s a subject for another post.) When I mentioned to a friend of mine that that we are going to need a little help from the doctor, my friend looked concerned and said, “I prefer Eastern medicine to Western Medicine in general. Western medicine waits until you’re sick to do anything, but Eastern medicine is about overall health and preventive care.” He then went on to say that Western doctors want you sick because that’s how they make their money.

» Continue reading “Post #2 Electric Boogaloo or Why I Trust My Doctor”