Reply #7: More research? Hahahah!

[Ripley]

I believe the Chinese have been effectively using acupunture for thousands of years.

This argument sounds exactly like the ones they use against Global Warming (or more accurately Climate Change). They are not interested in finding out if "alternatives" are safe, they are protecting corporate interests. Just imagine how much money the pharmaceutical and medical industries would lose if people used more natural products and actually became more healthy thus not requiring that seemingly mandatory cholesterol-lowering medicine or arthritic pain pill for the rest of their lives?

I'm not against testing for safety, but Europeans have been doing this for years. Why do they act like we discovered these things just this year? Besides, look at the USA's "safely FDA reviewed" drugs to market....Vioxx, etc!