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Obviously I am saying the standard explanation is the one with the causality backwards.

It's interesting that a side effect of pretty much every treatment for cancer is nausea, weight loss, etc. Almost like reduced nutrient absorption is the main mechanism by which the treatments work.

You could say that about every preclinical or clinical trial. If no one good at promotion had an interest in the treatment it would never get funded.

Most treatments studied are patented drugs, I never see these types of comments about those.

Thanks, not what I was thinking it sounds like.

From my reading, they would say some particles are just much more energetic than usual (for some reason we are ignorant of). See the post above about flipping a coin. According to the statistical model we use for coin flips, it is really unlikely to flip 100 heads in a row but not impossible.

Sounds like the wave model describes the statistical properties of a population of photons.

Eg, a coin flip is deterministic if you know all the forces involved (airflow, force of flip, exact distribution of mass of the coin, etc). But since we are usually ignorant of all that, instead we model it as a bernoulli trial.

But who is going to go to a doctor/hospital for the flu when they are scared of catching sars2 there?

Makes some sense, but that got me wondering if medical guidelines are going to start getting updates every few weeks like web browsers do.