This should be the top comment. I'm a bit disappointed in HN. So many of the comments here are focused on doubting the victims and ridiculing them for their i

This should be the top comment. I'm a bit disappointed in HN. So many of the comments here are focused on doubting the victims and ridiculing them for their irrational beliefs. The irony is that it's those very critics that aren't being rational. They have the causality backwards and seem to be assuming that if antibiotics didn't eliminate the symptoms then that means the disease can't be real. Wouldn't it be more rational to conclude that maybe the antibiotic isn't killing the pathogen?