“Examines ancient healing methods, which includes acupuncture and homeopathy, as well as the more modern practices of gemstone and magnet therapy”
2007
Penn & Teller doin what they do best: exposing bullshit
- Acupuncture And How It Can Help You
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You sure don’t your shit sir .Why don’t you study NIKKEN like one guy shows
. your studies don’t show nikken . You are a joke
Why do professional athletes use magnets? Probably because most of them are
otherwise so poorly educated that they believe anything they are told – and
sold.
Those who totally debunk the physical effects of acupuncture haven’t really
looked at the existing data. A research project was carried out in the US
(I think it was MD Anderson or it may have been some other big cancer
center) to test if acupuncture could help against chemo nausea and other
treatment-related symptoms. This was a placebo-controlled trial: Chinese
acupuncturists would use either real acupuncture points or scam ones i.e.
random needle placement. In this trial, the real acupuncture was effective
compared to placebo acupuncture. Sorry I don’t have the link but it can
probably be found in PubMed. Done before 2006 because that’s when I heard
the report at the ASCO meeting.
2:58 not China, it’s Thailand :(
My mom, 98 years old, in great shape, had a persistent pain after a serious
inflamation of her achiles tendon, treated with antibiotics etc. She sort
adapted to the pain for two years. Then I sent her a friend, a chinese
acupuncturist, and he gave her a treatment of 12 sessions, which didnt have
any results, until, we all forgot about it, but after some 3 months she
“suddenly” noticed that she was free of pain. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
I have a mass of scar tissue wrapped around my pudendal nerve (if you don’t
know what that is, take a minute to look it up, because it’s going to make
the next point much clearer). I went to a “doctor” who claimed he could
massage it away (see, the position was important! It’s between my hip bone
and my reproductive organs. How would he even reach it, and do I want a
strange rubbing me there?!). When I told him that sounded like crap, he
said, “well, if it’s even there.” I said, “it was found with a 3T MRI.” His
response? “Well, you have to WANT to get better” and that was going to cost
about $250 a week for “treatments,” but if I didn’t “WANT” to improve, I
wouldn’t. Meaning he knew it was crap, so the only effects I could get from
it were in my mind. No thanks, I’ll stick with my MD.
+Frank Duse Your right, that doesn’t mean every chiropractor is bullshit.
The fact that they are bullshit means they are ALL bullshit. I’m into four
years of medical school and my father is chief of surgery. They don’t teach
chiropractic bullshit in medical school. They don’t teach it because it is
only debated among fools like you. People who ACTUALLY know medicine, know
that this carp is awful. If you REALLY want to fool yourself into thinking
cracking your knuckles will fix anything, you might want to research what
that sound is, I think you will be surprised to find out what it is. We do
not recognize chiropractors as doctors. We laugh at them. And everyone else
laughs at you.
chiropractic care can really cure, to say that can cure anything it is
indeed bullshit.
but the target area of cure of chiropractic in anything related to joint,
and posture related diseases, including some king of headackes and
sympatetic system related problems, yes it is reallty effective.
Think about it – if magnet therapy is fake how come Magneto has super
powers?
I was told Raindrop Therapy (essential oils) could cure my Scoliosis! what
the actual fuck?!
This episode is kind of bullshit. Anybody interested in an evidence-based,
peer reviewed look at how stress can be measured, and it’s impacts on our
body should read Robert M. Sapolsky’s Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.
A lot of the misconceptions come from metaphors like Penn and Teller
working on the spark plugs through the tires, as if the body was a machine.
But the body is actually an interconnected ecosystem with each part
influencing the rest.
I won’t speak for reflexology, but our nervous system certainly
communicates from the feet to the prefrontal cortex. The magnet guy is a
little out there, but stimulating the brain with magnetic pulses is now an
evidence-based approach of neurologists. Alternative medicine has actually
contributed in many ways by producing new insights, while conventional
medicine often makes terrible mistakes (like creating enormous hospital
environments where antibiotic-resistant super-bugs can evolve and spread or
medicating an entire generation of kids with stimulants that lead to
later-life health and metabolic problems).
It is a well known fact that the Ancient Moronic tribes of the Upper Nile
in Egypt used advanced medical techniques such as colonic irrigation,
amateur brain surgery,ear candling etc. They also used a basic form of sham
animistic meditation to pull teeth–(they could transcend dental
medication!). The ancient Irish Druids used organic horshit to cure
piles-iam am told!
Look who gotten senile?
Because wouldn’t the magnet pull the iron in our blood and they’ll collect
to one spot? And it sounds not so healthy to me
Fuckin’ magnets! How do THEY work?
the doc hit her spot.
Wow I’ve some big schemes to get money but this one takes the cake.
I like watching fake science exposed, but it’s so annoying to listen to a
rude and condescending man who shouts his every sentence. No thanks, Penn
and Teller.
Need a lot stronger magnets than those to do anything noticeable. Also your
stupid.
2:34 That person ate a key!
If I had some serious lower back pain then a chiropractor could probably
help. Other than that its all nonsense.
Number way to tell genuine medicine from bullshit. Look at the scientific
studies they cite if they cite any at all.
Alternative Medicine is something stupid people use before they die
-E.D.
as far as reflexology is concerned, if you are going to die you might as
well die with someone rubbing your feet.
I knew something was wrong with the magnetic guy at the end as soon as I
saw the pink wallpaper. Pink wallpaper!
Cocaine would take the ache out of a toothache.
smoke weed <3
omg. it is quacks like this that do not know what they are doing make
alternative medicine really seem like quackery. Just like in anything a lot
of bullshit was made up but there is mountains of evidence for herbs, food
as medicine, and the power of the mind over the body. Herbs are ingredients
in many of today’s pharmaceuticals. Or as you all watching it probably know
it as “magic pills”. So long as you are kept on believing in an industry
that maintains disease instead of curing it( show me evidence that
pharmaceuticals have cured something) the more money that they will make
and the longer that they will stay in power.