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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  917 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 13, 2021

Oh I have no doubt that acupuncture will eventually fall to science, and we will discover the mechanism by which it works ... I mean, that's what science does; asses effects and test them until we understand how they work.

And this is also me laughing at myself and my purely mechanistic view of the world. Today, acupuncture is magic to me, simply because we do not fully understand the underlying mechanisms that make it work. But someday (hopefully in my lifetime!) we WILL understand it. Then it won't be magic... the mechanism will be understood... and my dogged belief in a purely mechanistic view of the Universe will remain unsullied! :-)