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Doctors have a habit of blowing off unknowns as "it's all in your head" (as if that somehow makes it out of their jurisdiction). There used to be a diagnosis o
by terminalshort 1y ago
Doctors have a habit of blowing off unknowns as "it's all in your head" (as if that somehow makes it out of their jurisdiction). There used to be a diagnosis of "female hysteria." After the invention of the MRI doctors were able to see the physical damage caused by the disease and they renamed it multiple sclerosis.
- klabb3 1y agoAbsolutely. Academics in particular are hyper averse to saying ”we don’t know yet”. They’d much rather establish an unfalsifiable narrative which can mislead and cause damage for decades, until it can be properly reversed. Archeology is perhaps the best field at turning random early speculations into entrenched dogma. But it happens in all fields.