What a crappy article. He just nitpicks on the press release to push his atheist agenda. He repeatedly talks about meridians, which aren't even mentioned in the actual paper:
"What really bugs me about this article, though, is that it's cool science. These guys have found something interesting that may even have a potential clinical application. For instance, local injection of A1 receptor agonists works the same as the "acupuncture.""
Right, because injections are totally better than poking your skin with needles or acupressure or shiatsu or what have you. The problem with that mentality is that it assumes adenosine is the only chemical at work, and that the more of it, the merrier (or worse, that, a standardized dose approved by the FDA is necessarily better than what each person's own body will produce naturally).
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.25...
This quote is actually kinda funny:
"What really bugs me about this article, though, is that it's cool science. These guys have found something interesting that may even have a potential clinical application. For instance, local injection of A1 receptor agonists works the same as the "acupuncture.""
Right, because injections are totally better than poking your skin with needles or acupressure or shiatsu or what have you. The problem with that mentality is that it assumes adenosine is the only chemical at work, and that the more of it, the merrier (or worse, that, a standardized dose approved by the FDA is necessarily better than what each person's own body will produce naturally).