As far as I can see the only object-level point I disagree with you about is that I don’t think the evidence for obesity being like cancer or pregnancy is as strong as you seem to think it is.
Some people certainly are obese because of literal cancer and literal pregnancy. We seem to have strong evidence for that.
The interesting question is about how much of the obesity pandemic is explainable by such factors and not whether evidence for such factors exists.
We certainly don’t see enough pregnancy and cancer to explain the obesity epidemic but there might be other factors that are similar but harder to see. Thermodynamic arguments don’t help us rule out other effects that are similar to pregnancy/cancer.
I agree with everything you said, so again I’m confused why you thought you should make this comment.
I feel like I don’t really disagree with most of the commenters but they either think I do disagree with them or that I did a very bad job of communicating exactly what my point was. It’s hard for me to understand.
Some people certainly are obese because of literal cancer and literal pregnancy. We seem to have strong evidence for that.
The interesting question is about how much of the obesity pandemic is explainable by such factors and not whether evidence for such factors exists.
We certainly don’t see enough pregnancy and cancer to explain the obesity epidemic but there might be other factors that are similar but harder to see. Thermodynamic arguments don’t help us rule out other effects that are similar to pregnancy/cancer.
I agree with everything you said, so again I’m confused why you thought you should make this comment.
I feel like I don’t really disagree with most of the commenters but they either think I do disagree with them or that I did a very bad job of communicating exactly what my point was. It’s hard for me to understand.