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Upon reading Chloe Saunders and colleagues’ Comment,1 it is striking how this new paradigm is essentially the old paradigm for medically unexplained symptoms and contested illnesses.2 The authors advance an alleged philosophical problem they call “taboos based on a dualistic understanding of physical versus mental illness”. They assert such “Poorly integrated explanatory models contribute to poor care and stigma for people who are ill in these specific ways.”