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Among other things, I am being framed as a conspiracy theorist:

Attributing the differences in our experiences to a uniform medical conspiracy against the public doesn't bear on whether treatments work or not for different cases.

Accusing me of wildly overreacting is not a good way to help in such a situation. It just puts out the fire with gasoline.

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Well, when you make claims suggesting that large groups like the “entire medical profession” may be acting on motives other than what they claim, or that medical experts may be just scamming money out of people, it does sound like a conspiracy theory.

So, basically, you are accusing me of wildly overreacting not because I am but because you are keen to heap additional attacks on me for some reason.

Criticising an industry as having inherent conflict of interest is not remotely a conspiracy theory.

I think I am done here. This is a really tiresome pattern on HN of late where two or more people gang up on me and use bad faith tactics and then I get downvoted etc. It's a no win situation for me and seems entirely unrelated to whatever point I have tried to make.

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