Talk:Acupuncture#Rate of serious adverse events

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Acupuncture as pseudoscience

Hello!

I'm a bit interested in this topic because, I don't see acupuncture being widely recognized as pseudoscience, while Wikipedia is characterizing it as so.

I won't be asking for changes by now, just some places so I can understand where this came from. I imagine this inclusion was probably controversial. Are there big talk threads where people discussed this in detail?

Also, is there a Wikipedia guideline explaining when things should be classified as pseudoscience versus not?

Thanks 2804:214:8743:43C8:78F3:4ED9:67F1:8946 (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

:See the cited sources. Bon courage (talk) 12:45, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

::You didn't provide me with any of the 2 things I asked for and nor any reasons not to.

::To be clearer, I've been lurking in Wikipedia talk pages and policies for a while, but, I'm a newcomer, and I don't know where to search for this exact thing. I'm not interested only in the sources, but in the discussion around those sources. 2804:214:8742:52C5:213B:CB11:424C:C65B (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

:::I think the best way to get caught up on that information will take a bit of time on your part, but that's just the way it is. If you look up at the top of this talk page, there are numerous numbered links to archives of this talk page. Pretty much everything that you want to find out about has already been discussed here before, often multiple times, and can be found in those archives. I'd suggest that you work your way through them one-by-one, and read the sections that look interesting to you. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:47, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Thanks a lot :) 2804:214:8742:52C5:213B:CB11:424C:C65B (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2025 (UTC)