I'm really sorry that you have been the victim of such forum drama.
I also agree with you that people on this forum are on balance likely to dismiss non-mainstream medical approaches. If you are open minded about these and want to discuss them without prejudice, you'll often be met with responses that may be snarky or unfairly dismissive. That's the unfair reality of holding non-mainstream ideas. By default, they are off-piste, niche, etc...
However, I didn't see anything like that in any of the responses here. A very valid point was raised that you support your proposition (ie that HIV might be helped by fasting) with a Quora link. People who are not closed to the idea will find that the link just contains some anecdotal information which at best can confirm sub-conscious pre-concieved biases, but not be a robust argument.
Worse, it plays into the hand of those who are outright dismissive because you served them a perfect strawman to attack.
Ultimately, with any discussion forum you have to consider the audience. People don't owe you anything and particularly a forum like this where things are supposed to be debated based on merit, the bar to debate claims is relatively high.
All these considered, it would've been better to simply ignore the quora link, or at least strongly annotate it saying it is just anecdotal and should not be taken as supporting evidence.
I also agree with you that people on this forum are on balance likely to dismiss non-mainstream medical approaches. If you are open minded about these and want to discuss them without prejudice, you'll often be met with responses that may be snarky or unfairly dismissive. That's the unfair reality of holding non-mainstream ideas. By default, they are off-piste, niche, etc...
However, I didn't see anything like that in any of the responses here. A very valid point was raised that you support your proposition (ie that HIV might be helped by fasting) with a Quora link. People who are not closed to the idea will find that the link just contains some anecdotal information which at best can confirm sub-conscious pre-concieved biases, but not be a robust argument.
Worse, it plays into the hand of those who are outright dismissive because you served them a perfect strawman to attack.
Ultimately, with any discussion forum you have to consider the audience. People don't owe you anything and particularly a forum like this where things are supposed to be debated based on merit, the bar to debate claims is relatively high.
All these considered, it would've been better to simply ignore the quora link, or at least strongly annotate it saying it is just anecdotal and should not be taken as supporting evidence.