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Re:Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? If Not, Why Are People Killi... by haberman on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:15AM (#11665630)
> Anyone can come up with a wild, fantastical idea

The idea that a person's physical symptoms might have a physical cause is not wild or fantastical. By Occam's Razor it is (absent other information) the most likely explanation.

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Re:Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? If Not, Why Are People Killi... by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:16PM (#11669781)
That's not Occam's Razor. That's an egregious misunderstanding of Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is indeed that those people suffer from anxiety, which is a very common condition that covers all their symptoms, as others have said. You need to make too many assumptions to be convinced of the contrary.
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