re: Most ridiculous alternative medicine ideas you have ever come in contact with...

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my wife has done it to me. whats wrong with it?

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Aside for the fact that it does nothing useful and there are risks involved, nothing.

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how is this any different than a massage or acupuncture or anytnig else?

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Well, massage is relaxing and may improve performance.

Acupuncture, well, this is what a researcher said...

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Acupuncture studies have shown that it makes no difference where you put the needles. Or whether you use needles or just pretend to use needles (as long as the subject believes you used them). Many acupuncture researchers are doing what I call Tooth Fairy science: measuring how much money is left under the pillow without bothering to ask if the Tooth Fairy is real.

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