For clarification purposes.
The scamming that I was referring to is with regards to the fact that many of the treatment options available with acupuncture and electroacupuncture are not proven to be statistically significantly different than placebo acupuncture or sham acupuncture. Also, while EA and acupuncture are approved for certain patients like cancer patients during chemotherapy, Acupuncture clinics also have a plethora of other therapies that anyone can get for things ranging from weight loss to face lifting and increased range of motion to reduced muscle stiffness. Not all of these applications have been proven but are currently done. From an objective standpoint, is this much different than the made up elixirs of the past (so long as they are not made of something that can harm the body obviously) such as the cancer curing bottle of water? Should they be used only for things that are proven empirically with the current testing schemes or not?