"A CNN morning news story yesterday promised new hope to women having difficulty getting pregnant. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which goes back 4,000 years, was used to treat women undergoing in vitro fertilization, which hasn't been around quite that long. CNN interviewer Paula Zahn asked an acupuncturist how sticking needles in the hands or feet, or just about anywhere it seemed, could affect pregnancy? "It increases the flow of chi," the acupuncturist explained. Even for Paula, that was a little short on scientific precision, so she turned to a "fertility expert" from NYU. "We're still looking for the science," he conceded, "but this has been around for more than 3,000 years, so it must work." Sure, about as well as astrology. The story was prompted by a feeble German study that wasn't even single-blind. It was published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Fertility and Sterility -- maybe in the "Sterility" category" (Trouvé dans What's New, http://www.aps.org/WN/ )
J'aime assez le "on attend toujours l'appui scientifique".
Jean-François