Aug 03 2009 EDITOR’S NOTE: Because, for the first time in a year
and a half, both professional and personal responsibilities
precluded my producing a post for Science-Based Medicine, today
is the perfect time to present a guest post by Ben Kavoussi. Ben
is a medical informatician with an interest in the scientific
evaluation of CAM, as well as a Captain in the Army Medical
Service Corps. He also studied to become an acupuncturist
himself, and his article is a fascinating look at some little
known history behind acupuncture that strongly suggests that it
is more akin to astrology than you may be aware of. Certainly I
had been unaware of it, and I bet most of our readers are
unaware of it, too. I’ll be back with a post here next week at
the latest. Astrology with Needles by Ben Kavoussi, MS, MSOM,
LAc The following is an excerpt of an upcoming article called
“The Untold Story of Acupuncture.” It is scheduled to be
published in December 2009 in Focus in Alternative and
Complementary Therapies (FACT), a review jo