http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/31/NSGDOIM5RJ1.DTL
Professor of clinical medicine at Stanford thinks alternative medicine doesn’t do anything. Acupuncture has only been formalised and standardised over the past hundred years, he says, and doesn’t do anything beyond release endorphins anyway. (How do you do double-blind studies of acupuncture anyway?)