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In my experience, any diet or exercise comes with an unlimited number of excuses from various different people for how you might not be doing it exactly right. Oddly enough, when the diet (temporarily) works on somebody, they don't bother to check whether every tiny thing was done according to their own playbook. Thus the hypothesis "this diet doesn't actually work for everyone" is prohbited.
I'm not arguing that every (or any) particular diet is perfect for everyone. I'm objecting to your claim that 'if you've tried a couple of diets and failed then you probably can't lose weight'. That's a hell of a strong factual claim, and if it's wrong then it's incredibly unhelpful. So what's the evidence? From what I can make out the case is 1) you believe there's strong evidence that it's nigh-impossible for a few people (mostly yourself?) 2) lots of people try fail 3) lots of different methods are put forward and lots of crap is talked about it.
I imagine that the same points are true for plenty of things that lots of people set out to do but which are difficult: learning a language, becoming a good cook, proficiency at an instrument, stopping procrastinating, getting a well-paying job... The last place I'd expect to see a counsel of despair would be here, tbh.
If there is stronger evidence that I'm missing, I'd be massively interested... and obviously you can ignore all the above!
I realize it would be insufficient compensation, but has bumping up against the religion of weight loss led you to find out anything new about biases, or was it all covered by trying to convince people of the dangers of UFAI?
The latter.