Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
Dr.DermMIA said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.DermMIA said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Coming at Dr.DermMIA’s question from a different direction. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.