Anti-acupuncture letter on JREF

Well of course it's going to be anti-acupuncture. I'm not going to get into a defense of acupuncture, etc. but this item from the JREF site seemed surreal to me:

Instead of getting narcotics for pain relief, wounded soldiers are being stuck in the ear with little needles.

So it's better to put narcotics in your system, rather than use something that isn't a drug? This is rational? I ask you. Oy. Even if acupuncture is nothing more than the "placebo effect" (which it isn't but I'm not going there) so what?

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