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Re:Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Failed t... by maxmcorp on Saturday March 18, 2017 @12:44PM (#13902094)
Confirmation bias does not exclude being correct. I have the same experience with a family member having gluten intolerance. We have experimented with diet. On gluten. Off gluten. Eating what is thought to be gluten free and having the usual reaction. And then finding out it wasnt. Having symptoms dissapear after a while of gluten etc. etc.

There might be confirmation bias, and it might be an n=1 test, but it is also 100% repeatable.

And it might not be the gluten, but proteins that are in the same foods as gluten. So when you stop with gluten you also stop with the other proteins. But that is really irellevant when you got the sensitivity.

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Re:Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Failed t... by in_cahoots on Saturday March 18, 2017 @02:12PM (#13902660)
There's no use in drawing conclusions from a broken experiment, whether it's from a team of scientists or an at-home test. Having no experience with gluten insensitivity myself, I am simply suggesting a way to bring some rigor to this conversation.
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