{"id":572,"date":"2017-12-01T02:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=572"},"modified":"2017-12-05T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T02:05:39","slug":"acupuncture-no-more-than-a-theatrical-placebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture &#8216;No More Than A Theatrical Placebo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Study author Daniel Ryan, of the Society for Science Based Healthcare, said despite complaints many companies were allowed to make misleading health claims and receive substantial ACC funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Medicines Act prohibits the publication of advertisements that claim a treatment can prevent, mitigate or cure any of a list of serious conditions, such as infertility and cancer. The study looked at claims being made by acupuncturists in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The study found the three most frequent claims regarded the treatment or prevention of mental illness, infertility, and arthritis. Combined, these claims appeared on three-quarters of the websites that were examined.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that figures released under the Official Information Act showed ACC spent $33.2m on acupuncture claims in the 2016\/17 year, up from $15.6m in 2009\/10 &#8211; with a total of $210m in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best scientific evidence suggests that acupuncture is no more than a theatrical placebo.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/national\/345226\/most-acupuncture-websites-mislead-study\">RNZ<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study author Daniel Ryan, of the Society for Science Based Healthcare, said despite complaints many companies were allowed to make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,10],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","tag-acupuncture","tag-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}