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Marcelo.

Acupuncture has been correlated with relief of pain in numerous legitimate scientific studies.
There are theoretical reasons to think that acupuncture can relieve pain.
We have scientific proof that acupuncture works.

Stanley.

(Those who believe in acupuncture bear the burden of proof.) 
It is not proved that acupuncture was the actual mechanism that relieved the pain in all those cases when acupuncture was applied and the pain went away.
We do not have scientific proof that acupuncture works.

Stanley does not contradict any of Alan's premises, and his conclusion does not imply any specific comments on alan's reasoning, so again it's an opposing argument.

Stanley commits the fallacy of irrational proof standard. There is no scientific experiment that can meet the kind of standard he is trying to impose.

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