Now it can be very frustrating to hear “you can’t have an opinion on this because you’re not an expert”, and it sounds very similar to credentialism.
But it’s not. If you’d demonstrated a mastery of the material, and came up with a convincing description of current evidence for the DNA theory and why you believe it’s incorrect, evidence which is not pulled straight out of the book you’re reviewing, I wouldn’t care what your credentials are.
But you seem to have missed really obvious consequences of the fungi theory, like, “wouldn’t it be infectious then”, and all the stuff in J Bostock’s excellent comment. At that point it seems like you’ve read a book by a probable crank, haven’t even thought through the basic counterarguments, and are spreading it around despite it containing some potentially pretty dangerous advice like “don’t do chemotherapy”. This is not the sort of content I find valuable on LessWrong, so I heavily downvoted.
I replied to J Bostock. To address the “wouldn’t it be infectious”, that mental model has the assumption of being able to actually detect transmission. That type of thinking seems inherited from acute infectious models rather than chronic disease modelling. In the chronic pathogenic model, progression of disease can be slower and causal attribution can be unassigned. To understand this point, see link below re: latency in cryptococcus neoformans, where the fungi can go dormant in white blood cells for years or decades.
I would consider this one of the most central points to clarify, yet the OP doesn’t discuss it at all, and your response to it being pointed out was 3 sentences, despite there being ample research on the topic which points strongly in the opposite direction.
Where did I say that?
I never said you said it, I said the book contains such advice:
Lintern suggests that chemotherapy is generally a bad idea.
Now it can be very frustrating to hear “you can’t have an opinion on this because you’re not an expert”, and it sounds very similar to credentialism.
But it’s not. If you’d demonstrated a mastery of the material, and came up with a convincing description of current evidence for the DNA theory and why you believe it’s incorrect, evidence which is not pulled straight out of the book you’re reviewing, I wouldn’t care what your credentials are.
But you seem to have missed really obvious consequences of the fungi theory, like, “wouldn’t it be infectious then”, and all the stuff in J Bostock’s excellent comment. At that point it seems like you’ve read a book by a probable crank, haven’t even thought through the basic counterarguments, and are spreading it around despite it containing some potentially pretty dangerous advice like “don’t do chemotherapy”. This is not the sort of content I find valuable on LessWrong, so I heavily downvoted.
I replied to J Bostock. To address the “wouldn’t it be infectious”, that mental model has the assumption of being able to actually detect transmission. That type of thinking seems inherited from acute infectious models rather than chronic disease modelling. In the chronic pathogenic model, progression of disease can be slower and causal attribution can be unassigned. To understand this point, see link below re: latency in cryptococcus neoformans, where the fungi can go dormant in white blood cells for years or decades.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7324190/
For what it’s worth I found OP extremely valuable.
I very much did not miss that.
Where did I say that?
I would consider this one of the most central points to clarify, yet the OP doesn’t discuss it at all, and your response to it being pointed out was 3 sentences, despite there being ample research on the topic which points strongly in the opposite direction.
I never said you said it, I said the book contains such advice: