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ChristianKl comments on The Thyroid Madness : Core Argument, Evidence, Probabilities and Predictions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 15 March 2016 04:24:02PM 1 point [-]

On the other hand, how the hell did I miss this?

I found it by googling: Low Body Temperature chronic fatigue syndrom

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 15 March 2016 04:36:56PM *  0 points [-]

Indeed, in fact I think I might have seen it before and ignored it.

Very early on, when I was trying to work out what the hell was wrong with me, I read about 'adrenal fatigue', and thought it looked very plausible (amongst a very large number of other plausible possibilities), but Wiki said it wasn't a thing, and my doctor agreed, so I forgot about it. Maybe since then I've had filters on.

There's even a chapter of Durrant-Peatfield's book, which I read cover to cover not three days ago, which mentions Wilson's Syndrome in exactly the sort of way that you'd expect an English non-conformist to mention a man who'd named someone else's ideas after himself.

But maybe that's not true. Maybe Wilson really did come up with it on his own many years ago, before the internet would have enabled him to find Barnes or Lowe. Sure looks like it's going a bit nuclear now.

And still endocrinology isn't interested? What on earth is going on?