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I'm still looking into this and forming my opinion. It's very curious how at the end of her YouTube video she mentions other residents in her building came forward and said they too were sick (numerous ER visits over 2 years), and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY, until they saw her expose in the newspaper. That seems to counter your hypochondria theory, no?

see: https://youtu.be/pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&t=2680

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There are many situations where people assign causality when there is no true evidence or mechanism. One of the best examples are cancer clusters. There have been examples of well-understood (almost certainly causal) cancers caused by industrial occupation, but cancer is common enough that some things that look causal are purely coincidental. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls was almost certainly causal, while "high voltage electrical lines cause cancer" probably is not (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/health/long-after-an-80s-...)

So no, it doesn't counter the hypochondria theory.

You can’t really use a questionable source to verify the same source.

fair point. i guess i’m just illustrating that it’s not as clear as the parent makes it seem.

People get strange symptoms all the time. I currently have a chronic scalp condition that doctors haven’t really identified and a really stiff neck. Of course I’m going to go ‘aha!’ If someone gives me a plausible explanation

Psoriasis and computer neck?

No to the first, yes to the second

probably

As someone who lives in that building and works at Apple, I don't believe her. We were all pretty mad that she caused us to panic about being poisoned and gettin cancer.

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