A new acupuncture study has just come out of Munich's Technical University in Germany. Not surprisingly, the researchers concluded that acupuncture is effective in treating chronic pain - but doctors don't know why. They state that "Much of the clinical benefit of acupuncture might be due to non-specific needling effects and powerful placebo effects, meaning selection of specific needle points may be less important than many practitioners have traditionally argued." I argue that the reasons for acupuncture's efficacy can't be revealed by using the current modern methods of research. Doctors don't understand why it works because they're only thinking inside of their own frameworks of research. I don't have a better model in mind, but I also don't think that they're using the right tools for the job. And i suspect that those tools have yet to be invented.