When you consider the terrible side-effects caused by even over the counter pain relievers millions of people take every day for low back pain, it seems unethical to ignore the good news of these studies just because the mechanisms for how acupuncture works baffle us.
"To say that credit markets should follow a caveat emptor model is to ignore the success of the consumer goods market--and the pain inflicted by dangerous credit products, " she writes in the newest edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.