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...does it work? Most Western-trained physicians remain skeptical. Explanations that acupuncture restores the balance of yin and yang by tinkering at critical points along life-force meridians sound to scientists suspiciously like quackery. Advocates counter that their claims are supported by hundreds of research studies--as well as a successful track record that extends back 2,500 years...
...barrier remains: acupuncture springs from a system of faith that scientists find almost incomprehensible. The treatment rests on the Taoist belief that two life forces, yin and yang, combine to produce a vital life energy, called ch'i (or qi), that flows through the body along pathways known as meridians, which were charted thousands of years ago. People get sick when these life forces are knocked out of balance, and the job of the acupuncturists is to nudge ch'i back into equilibrium. They do this by pushing needles through the skin, sometimes several inches into the body, at specific...
Robert D. Howe--whose work in bioengineering includes robotic prosthetics--and Woodward Yang, an electrical engineer specializing in micro-electronics, had both spent seven years in the DEAS before receiving tenure...
...Yang, who said he was currently offering an undergraduate course in the Computer Science department which covered the basics of very small electrical circuits, said his research parallels his teaching...
...Yang said that, as a former Harvard junior Faculty member, his life had not been greatly affected by tenure...