@article{ref1,
title="Acupuncture is all placebo and here is why",
journal="Headache",
year="2015",
author="McGeeney, Brian E.",
volume="55",
number="3",
pages="465-469",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Alternative and complementary medicines such as acupuncture remain popular with the general public and many clinicians. The term &quot;integrative medicine&quot; is often now used to describe this type of non-science-based medicine, which has become more of a faith-based method of practice, making it harder to challenge. Acupuncture is commonly used to treat headache along with just about any other symptom and condition known to man. <br><br>DISCUSSION: Physicians regularly fall into many misunderstandings when erroneously believing a real effect from acupuncture, when there is none. A perfunctory and poorly informed media contribute to the misinformation. Sixteen logical traps are identified which together explain most of the false reasoning behind the alleged effect of acupuncture. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Practitioners need to do a better job of discerning truth from information and data available on acupuncture.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0017-8748",
doi="10.1111/head.12524",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/head.12524"
}