On February 8, 2008, a scientific article in the British Medical Journal suggested that acupuncture significantly increases pregnancy rates with IVF. This paper, a so-called meta-analysis of a number of previously published articles, reminds me of the old, I believe IBM-resourced saying, "garbage in, garbage out."
Approximately a dozen studies have previously addressed this question. The authors of this recent meta-analysis chose seven amongst them, and in combining outcomes from...