re good grief was re candida albicans what is it in article noringc snsx kmo netcom com noring netcom com jon noring writes in article rind enterprise bih harvard edu david rind writes there is no convincing evidence that such a disease exists there s a lot of evidence it just hasn t been adequately gathered and published in a way that will convince the die hard melancholic skeptics who quiver everytime the word anecdote or empirical is used no there s no evidence that would convince any but the most credulous the evidence is identical to the sort of evidence that has been used to justify all sorts of quack treatments for quack diseases in the past medicine on the right road but methinks that some who hold too firmly to the party line are academics who haven t been in the trenches long enough actually treating patients i like the implication here it must not be that the quacks making millions off such diseases are biased rather that those who doubt their existence don t understand the real world it seems easy to picture a th centure snake oil salesman saying the same thing however i have been in the trenches long enough to have seen multiple quack diseases rise and fall in popularity systemic yeast syndome seems to be making a resurgence it had fallen off a few years ago there will be new such diseases i m sure with best selling books and expensive therapies if anybody doctors included said to me to my face that there is no evidence of the yeast connection i cannot guarantee their safety for their incompetence ripping off their lips is justified as far as i am concerned well this of course is convincing i guess i d better start diagnosing any illnesses that people want so that i can keep my lips david rind rind enterprise bih harvard edu
