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Oh, if by 'just-world' fallacy, you mean that medical science ought to be about understanding things and making things better, then I most certainly do believe that.
I seem to be being rather forcefully rammed up against the fact that you can't get an 'is' from an 'ought'.
But again, you have strengthened my position. I want to be defeated. Show me why I am wrong about type 2 endocrine disorders.
Medical science is about understanding things and making things better but it's not about understanding everything. Different organisations focus on trying to understand different things and focusing on whether different interventions work.
In a world of very uncertain knowledge that's not to be expected.
But if that's actually what you want you have to move to make more specific claims. You still haven't provided probability values for any of the claims you are making. As a result it's hard to argue that you are wrong about the probability of various claims.
OK, I think I have to start drawing conclusions in public. Some of them terrify me, but I'll try a few of the safer ones. Thanks. Actually I've just read Broda Barnes (I was originally assuming he was a lunatic who'd confirmation-biased and placebo-effected himself to death), and his clinical observations agree pretty much with my predictions, although I'm not sure yet what I think of his theory, which isn't the same as mine.
Oh, most definitely. Endocrinology is only my third-favourite hobby, and I'd like to put this idea to bed and get back to the things I enjoy.