> This doesn't happen with any other animal

That's really not true at all. For example, rabbits love sweet stuff like fruit and will readily kill themselves by eating too much, which causes their delicate hindgut fermenter digestive system to shut down.

Like humans, they simply aren't adapted to conditions where they have unlimited sugary food like fruit, so they will eat too much when given the opportunity.

How is that "like humans"? Rabbits and humans have completely different digestion and physiologies, the former relying on hindgut fermentation. No human has ever died from eating too much fruit, period.

> Which are crafted by individuals with strong financial ties to the meat, dairy, or egg industries, thus should be disregarded by any reasonable person.

The RFK jr version of the food pyramid now moves meat and dairy to the biggest section of the pyramid

It's not really different than losing weight by any other method in that respect.

There is always the risk of regaining weight unless you continue to do whatever caused you to lose weight (e.g. restricting calories) to some extent.

I guess a "cure" would be good but since we don't have one having to periodically go back on glp drugs if you gain weight is no different from periodically having to go on a diet if you gain weight.

On the other hand most people tend to naturally gain weight pretty slowly (e.g. a pound a year) so having to go on glp drugs for a period every few years wouldn't even be that bad, especially if they're available in pill form.

A better comparison would be saying that we shouldn't have seat belts because people should be driving more carefully in the first place.

IIRC plaque is mineralized by saliva in the same way as tooth enamel, so something that changes saliva in a way that prevents tartar from forming might be reducing the amount of calcium in your saliva in a way that could potentially ultimately not be good for your teeth.

The thing is, even people who are obese and gaining weight over time are usually just eating a tiny calorie surplus each day.

If people take GLP-1 meds and get down into the normal range, at that point even if they stay on the drugs, they're going to have to adjust the dose so they stop losing weight again (without gaining weight).

This means that even if everyone who's overweight or obese started taking GLP-1 drugs and started losing weight right now, the reduction in food consumption would still be limited and short term.

So I think this concern is somewhat overblown.

They really don't seem to work that way, it's not a calorie minusing weight loss pill.

They don't work by reducing appetite, causing people to eat less? What mechanism do you think they work by then?

> If a machine can do this assignment perfectly, why are you giving it to this student?

By that logic now that text to speech has gotten quite good we should stop teaching kids to read.

IMO the students are way ahead already. If they have no chance of making a life for themselves why continue with the whole song and dance.

Many of my university classmates would give up on more than one paragraph so I'd say we're already there.

> My life experience also mimics this. In college I thought I had crippling social anxiety. Turns out I just needed to be around people more to develop my abilities.

I don't understand why you think that the fact that exposure cured you means you didn't have social anxiety?

Exposure is something a therapist would suggest for social anxiety.

The issue seems to be that you think saying that someone has social anxiety means they are permanently broken (and maybe will give up trying to do anything about it?) but I'm not really sure where you got that idea from.

Do you really mean OCD? Or do you mean OCPD? I wouldn't think that OCD would be similar to PDA.

Yes. And yes, OCD can look similar I think (IANAP). Both are often anxiety driven. Try telling someone with OCD to put on their shoes quickly if they are paranoid there's a spider in them ...

Sure there might be some "pure" pda where it's 100% down to reacting against demands. But AFAIK it can be also driven by autism related anxieties ("I can't do that because for some reason it's freaking me out and I can't explain it, so I'll get mad and then think I'm mad because I don't want you ordering me around"). Or it's just "I didn't understand the first 16 times and now I'm mad that you're mad ..." which is more like pda as it's often described ... but is it always that?

OCD is often anxiety over specific fears ("if I do that I might make a mistake, and if I make a mistake it's the end of the world, so I'll get mad and think I'm mad because I don't want you ordering me around").

Anyone a bit "weird" can be reactive if you tell them something that seems reasonable to you but isn't reasonable to them.

Even if you don't think it has validity as a single disorder, autism is at least diagnosed in a way that's fairly consistent between clinicians using ADOS.

I'm more dubious of clinicians who like to pick random dubious rare disorders that people can't even agree about the basic description of like schizoid out of the DSM like the author of this article.