Russian Cows Benefit From Acupuncture

Russian academic authorities have to reconsider questions of what constitutes scholarship.
Russia gave the world many things: Sputnik, the first man in space, the most powerful explosion of a hydrogen bomb, an endless flow of oil and gas, and, most recently, cow acupuncture. The Highest Attestation Commission in Moscow awarded a doctorate in biology to veterinarian Dmitry Kapralov for his dissertation entitled “Morpho-functional characteristic of biologically active points in diagnostics and therapy of acute catarrhal afterbirth endometritis in cows in experiment.” The dissertation was defended far away from Moscow, in Primor’e State Agricultural University in the Far East. The author suggests inserting needles into specific points. And why not? If humans can benefit from acupuncture, so can cows. More...