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Kind of amazed at the number of people railing against this study and only providing personal anecdotes in return. Putting aside the dangers of that kind of th

Kind of amazed at the number of people railing against this study and only providing personal anecdotes in return. Putting aside the dangers of that kind of thinking, it seems clear that a lot of people have become reasonably quite frustrated with real health symptoms they are experiencing. Feeling sick and being brushed off, regardless of the circumstances, must only make the situation harder to deal with. For those who believe firmly that they've nailed down gluten as the cause, maybe it'd just be safer to just keep those beliefs to yourself and not risk a potentially flippant diagnosis of psychosomatic idiopathy.

M_Grey 10y ago
People have always been like this... it just used to be that the "doctor" was always willing to bleed you or physick you, or whatever. Now doctors are trained only to render useful treatments, but the desire for woo is unchanged. As you say, people don't like feeling ill, and if the answer is, "You're human, maybe it's environmental, or it's just you, etc..." people would rather take the illusion of personal control. That has never changed, and is unlikely to change unless medicine advances enormously. People aren't very bright and thoughtful at the best of times. When we're really hurt, what little reason we have goes out of the window.