Puncturing Acupuncture

This is starting to get some play, so let's kill it while it's hot. (Correctly count the hip lingo in that last sentence, and you might win...something.) There's a new study hitting the news rounds which is being promoted as proof that acupuncture is an effective form of therapy for lower back pain. I won't go into the specifics here, since I don't need to. Dr. Steven Novella has written up a nice rebuttal at his blog NeuroLogica. Read it here.