Sorry but I can&#x27;t keep up with you. You&#x27;re trying to reason about things you
don&#x27;t even know happened, based on an account in an article you read on the
internet, and on things that people report. That&#x27;s no way to make sense of
anything.<p>I&#x27;ll give you an example. Where I come from, people believe in the Evil Eye:
that if you stare at someone or something with a bad intention, if you&#x27;re
jealous etc, you can cause real, physical harm to that person, thing etc.<p>I&#x27;ve been accused of it a couple of times (I got scary eyes). Once a friend got
a headache and then called her mom and asked her to say a special prayer people
say that supposedly banishes the Evil Eye, then made a big todo about how a
certain person always gave her the Evil Eye (it didn&#x27;t take rocket science to
figure out she was talking about me).<p>So, my friend obviously had an ailment, if you like: her head hurt. She felt
bad, she blamed it on me. It helps that we were having an argument at the time
it happened. We often had arguments. She often had headaches. She believed I was
giving her the Evil Eye.<p>You can take the events themselves and try to reason about them. Did I give my
friend the Evil Eye? Was the headache unrelated? Which happened first? What
tells us they were cause-and-effect? What tells us they weren&#x27;t?<p>Except, there is no such thing as the Evil Eye and you&#x27;re basing your whole
reasoning process on empty air- and convincing yourself that you&#x27;re on firm
ground.<p>The thing to ask is not &quot;did I give my friend the Evil Eye?&quot;. The thing to ask is
&quot;is there such a thing as the Evil Eye?&quot;. Equally, you should be asking whether
ENS is real in the first place. But you jump immediately in discussions of
cause-and-effect, symptoms and accounts. If you&#x27;re already convinced that ENS is
real, those are not that important. But you have to ask yourself: why do you
think it&#x27;s real? Just because people say they have it? There doesn&#x27;t seem to be
anything else at the moment.<p>Like others say, I don&#x27;t doubt for a moment that people suffer from - something.
But I&#x27;m not convinced that it&#x27;s what they say it is. I don&#x27;t blame people for
going mad about it, I do blame their doctors for not listening to them, but I
don&#x27;t blame ENS, because it sounds like the Evil Eye, or Morgellon&#x27;s or whatever
similar crazy thing people latch on to in their desperation.<p>And of course the worse thing is: by latching onto ENS (or whatever), people
deprive themselves of the chance to have what ails them treated.