User blog comment:Noreenarshad, TheIceWriter/Why No Medical Pastas?/@comment-4453469-20110919171538/@comment-4453469-20110919203604

I suppose it would be. I just think that if I were the one writing the story, I'd like to be sure that there was a very small chance that my pasta could be debunked. It takes all of the fun away if the mystery is lost.

Like, what I would be going for is that the reader would not be able to find any plausible escape route. I'd like to get them thinking "This is all totally possible," and have them trying to apply my pasta's explanation to every other situation they've come into contact with and it all fitting perfectly. That, to me, is the ideal pasta.

For instance, "Cancer is caused by possession of the soul!" has a lot less credibility than "This mutated gene that comes from a form of the common cold is causing an epidemic of cancer!" or something to that effect (bad example, whatever).