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

10 Post author: johnlawrenceaspden 14 March 2016 01:41AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 March 2016 06:36:01PM 1 point [-]

It is pretty much grail or nothing

Why? The situations where mechanism X works for some people some of the time are very common.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 18 March 2016 09:35:51PM *  0 points [-]

Sorry, I mean, grail as in all the central sensitivity syndromes, not grail as in all sufferers of those syndromes.


Of course, that would be a priori unlikely. Now we need occult hypothyroidism plus a complicated way in which something that's nothing to do with thyroids causes thyroidy symptoms.

A bit like proposing that one of the twin towers was destroyed by the CIA, while at the same time, terrorists destroyed the other one. Or for that matter, the decisive argument in the Amanda Knox case.