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Yes, if you consume heroin, you are likely to become addicted to heroin, and that has really bad outcomes for you individually and for society at large. Don't you have any interest in how we might solve the opioid problem? Or is that also a matter of simple physics, and thus not a topic worth exploring scientifically?

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Your rhetorical question is intentionally obtuse, you'll never have a productive conversation on any topic by creating your own strawman and falsehoods to argue with.

As for addiction, addiction to smoking, food, drugs, alcohol, etc it's all the same mechanism.

Fair enough in regards to the rhetorical device I used, but you still seem to have taken the point I was trying to make.

To your second point, while all addictions have some neurological chemical properties in common, they are not “all the same mechanism.” They vary in their details. Gut flora is the new frontier of neurology. It’s worth studying the phenomenon.

> Gut flora is the new frontier of neurology. It’s worth studying the phenomenon.

Certainly agree on that in a very broad sense, far exceeding this topic. But in terms of obesity, any change to the microbiome is in response to the intake and food abuse, it's another effect rather than a cause.

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