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You must teach at a crappy med school.
Comparing Galen Rupp's chances of having hypothyroidism to the general population is absurd. He was "diagnosed" around the age of 20. The incidence of that occurring is certainly much much lower than 3.5% which is the odds of it appearing in the general population at all age groups and in both sexes.
please do tell what medical school you teach at?
Nowhere did I compare Galen's chances to the full population. I was simply stating some epidemiological numbers since the OP was using population data as the basis of his/her argument and was off by an order of magnitude.
I did, however, then go on to point out that if the group has multiple young healthy men being diagnosed for the condition, it does indeed seem to go very against the odds, thus raising "glaring red flags." (quoting my own post there)
The conclusion is that we seem to actually be agreeing with each other that the chances are quite low, and thus strange, that multiple young healthy men in one single training group would be diagnosed as hypothyroid.
Again I will say, I do not know if others in the group are have been diagnosed as hypothyroid or are using thyroid medication. The intimation has been made multiple times in this thread and in the past on this discussion board.