"One common theme in the chronic Lyme communities is that people who go into remission tend to attribute their response to whatever technique, supplement, or medication they were trying at the time."

This is spot on. People probably have always been doing this - but now they also publish their theories to everyone on the Internet where all the outrageous claims live and prosper, because nobody writes a blog post that a given supplement did not work. This is https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood Law again.

For some time I have been thinking what is the rational thing to do when you are seriously sick in the internet era: https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dff...