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=== In Grilled Cheesus, lighting a candle in a hospital room where oxygen is in use. ===
[[Television Is Trying to Kill Us]]. Kurt, clearly the [[Only Sane Man]], did the reasonable thing and blew it out. Then again, he also thought that [[You Fail Biology Forever|acupuncture would get his dad out of a coma.]]
* He thought the acupuncture would help his dad's circulation, which would increase the flow of blood to his dad's brain, which would get his dad out of a coma. Which is scientifically sound. Also, [
** The biochemical mechanism for potential effects of acupuncture is not understood; various hypotheses about neurological effects have been forwarded, but none have adequate research behind them. Ironically the method for choosing the points comes from traditional Chinese religion and was in order to maintain proper flow of "Qi." Also, the He study was looked at in the ''[http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab007700.html Acupuncture for acute management and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury]'' Cochrane review, and its data excluded from the meta-analyses (as was another 29 of the 34 considered studies), because the quality of the study was judged as being too low. The Liu study was not considered. The Cochrane review found no high quality studies suggesting the use of acupuncture for brain injury, though they did find that it was the prevailing trend in low quality studies, typically those were judged to have a "high risk of bias" due to the studies' methodologies (among other issues). Notably any mention of blinding (using sham acupuncture) was nonexistent in any of the 34 acupuncture studies, whereas double-blinds are the standard in allopathic medical trials whenever possible.
* I thought that the acupuncture was for Kurt to try and de-stress.
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