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  "tags": [
    "Acupuncture",
    "Science and the Media",
    "Chopra Center",
    "Deepak Chopra",
    "National Geographic",
    "Neil Thiese",
    "New York Times",
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  "textContent": "I'm on vacation this week and decided to repost a 2018 article that I had written for my other blog (but never published on SBM) that's oddly relevant to the SBM post last week about that awful NYT acupuncture article. Meet the introduction of the \"interstitium\" in acupuncture, complete with a major Deepak Chopra connection!\n\nThe post A blast from the past: The “interstitium,” the inspiration for that recent awful NYT acupuncture article first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.",
  "title": "A blast from the past: The “interstitium,” the inspiration for that recent awful NYT acupuncture article"
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