Adreno
um, no it's quite believable to me
we know jack SQUAT about the Universe we live in
our society has a momumental arrogance and blindness to this fact that we know so little.
the complexity of biology vastly out does that of physics...and the latter as we go "deeper and deeper" gets more and more bizzare and complex, yet it's the underpinnings of everything we make, for example.
tiny exmaple: only recently was it discovered the brain produces it's own insulin.
Every day, more is learned.
With such ignorance, how cna you test for what you don't know?
and tests DO show problems with M.E. patients, MRI scans and autopsies show serious anomalous damage to the brain and very specific areas where sensory nerves enter the brain stem
now, I'e had both low blood sugar and meningitis, so I can relate the over sensitatization, the pain, distress etc, of bright light, noise, dealing with multiple things/people at same time etc, to the M.E. experience.
no one in their right mind would suggets that a person with meningitis, very low blood sugar or similar problem affectuing the brain (which includes rabies by the way), would not have terrible time of it.
Same thing with us. Just varies in severity.
if I get it right, Sophia Mirza died because her body was so incredibly exhausted and sensitized that even water was provoking an immune response
(have I got that right?? *asks of the folk who've read up more on it*)
There's 2 way sto advance:
1) deduce the actual udnerlying specific cause and treat that
2) trial and error find out what treatment works
in medicine we can't do much of #2 because suffering and death are result of many wrongly used treatments.
But since we canot as yet find the specific cause we're left high and dry :/
People react very differently to any illness, some are almost immune, some have catastrophic bad reactions
so, one person may never get the Flu, another get's inflammation and infection of the brain or heart and dies!
most folk though lie in between.
we seemto be the unuusal cases for which some problem erupts, as it does for diabetics, arthritis, etc.
We still do NOT know what trully triggers most immune disease. The effects, yes, but not the initialspecific trigger and why.
As time goes on we learn more hence work on diabetes and arthritis and by completely coincidental research that ends up overlapping, shows how peculiar and linked etc such are.