"There is almost an obligatory medical genuflection...."

[charlie]

"There is almost an obligatory medical genuflection toward “genetic causation” of disease, and especially of thyroid disease, autoimmune disease, and other chronic or degenerative diseases. The fact that thyroid disease and autoimmune diseases are from five to ten times more frequent in women than men is somehow hasn’t increased medical interest in the pathogenic role of estrogen, and it doesn’t prevent platoons of medical researchers from making claims to have discovered “which chromosome carries the disease."

 

[montmorency]

That "obligatory medical genuflection" is so wonderfully Peatian.