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8. Steven Novella is an academic clinical neurologist.

Which means that he treats patients and teaches medical students to treat patients in his specialty, neurology. That means things like ALS. This academic clinical setting is where medical standards of care are developed. And that is why acupuncture is unethical. Any modality which has no gain beyond placebo is unethical to prescribe, especially when it involves invasively sticking needles into people.

I have listened to hundreds of hours of Dr. Steven Novella on his weekly podcast, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. I have never, ever heard him shill for anything beyond good science, certainly not insurance companies. So you are either misinformed or you are outright lying.

He testifies for science based medicine, a terminology he coined.

Again, acupuncture is utter rubbish.