From another Hacker News discussion: "One common theme in the chronic Lyme communities is that people who go into remission tend to attribute their response to

From another Hacker News discussion: "One common theme in the chronic Lyme communities is that people who go into remission tend to attribute their response to whatever technique, supplement, or medication they were trying at the time." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21707343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21707343 Once people form a community around a particular therapy the community will never admit that the therapy was wrong. On the other hand https://equilibriabook.com/ https://equilibriabook.com/ gives shocking examples of how the medical establishment was wrong even though all the information was available and an individual could do much better not following mainstream medical advice. That can happen when the incentives in the research institutions are misaligned. This is a subject I also put a lot of thinking into recently:https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dffcfe https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dff...