Ryan, thank you again. Your concerns are my concerns, I am grateful to you for them.

And I apologise. You have been talking to a raving lunatic, by the ICD10 diagnostic criteria as applied by my attorney and myself. See the exchange with buybuydandavis for details. I am apparently recovered now, in the opinion of one who should know.

I am painfully aware that I have reasoned myself into a place where I prove too much.

I am in the position of a philosopher who started out with a little detail, and is now claiming 'It is at least marginally possible that here is the light and the sacred cup'. Knowing that he is wrong.

I was carefully and expensively trained to speak with certainty when and only when I was certain. The Lord knows I was never very good at it.

I have used plausible reasoning where I only trust classical logic.

I am forced to seek the Grail.

But I cannot shake the suspicion that I might be right. And I know that my hopeless hardware will not let me find the reason why I am wrong.

1 - It has never been the case previously that almost all unexplained human ailments have shared a single simple explanation

It has. The germ theory.

I am claiming that the great killers of the past may have left their shadows in our genes, and those shadows still plague us today.

I am claiming that the great changes we have made in our environment may have hurt us worse than we know.

Here I stand, naked to the world. Afraid. I can do no other in good conscience. I do not believe my own conclusion.

I hope that when I am shown to be wrong, I can retreat with no more than huge embarrassment, resolving to fail better next time.

And it all depends on the TSH test. If I am wrong about that, I am just wrong.

If the TSH test is flawed, then all our statistics are confounded, and we have some thinking to do.

Still Crocker's Rules though! Let this cup pass from me!