Medicine and science have a long ways to go to really grasp the diversity of individuals... most arguments about medicine I see online seem to include at least

Medicine and science have a long ways to go to really grasp the diversity of individuals... most arguments about medicine I see online seem to include at least one side implicitly assuming that all humans must respond to the same things in the same way. Reddit is probably especially bad for that, sorry to hear it happened to you when you were looking for help. People are diverse enough that literally everyone is going to have some what in which they are different, and respond in an extremely rare way to some medication or treatment. Hopefully they simply never end up needing and receiving the ones where that would happen. In general, there are infinite possible rare events: rare events are extremely common, it is only specific rare events that are uncommon. People confuse this and assume that rare events are impossible. For example, I have an awful adverse reaction to even very low doses of the supplement creatine- widely considered probably one of the safest and lowest risk supplements in existence. People will say straight to my face that the adverse reaction I had isn't possible, because research shows it is safe. Pointing out that the research was not specifically done on me does not seem to carry any weight. I wonder if those people would literally choose to die from a medication they were obviously reacting badly to, because of a disbelief in the possibility of it occurring, even when it is occurring? I'd bet they take it seriously if it happens to them, but not to other people.