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Is this website a joke?

Nothing about medicine is a joke. Idiopathic diseases are as real as any other disease. They can be devastating.

But there is something funny about the pervasive use of a term as scientific-sounding as "Idiopathic" that means "unknown".

Imagine your mechanic telling you, after a long & costly evaluation, that your problem is "idiopathic". Or the dry cleaner telling you that the spot on your new suit is "idiopathic" and can't be removed.

I can't think of any field but medicine that has a term as intimidating for things that are of unknown origin as "idiopathic".

So I think there should be a school for Idiopathy. Or Idiopathology. There should be a campus; a t-shirt; a cap; a diploma. It should be a bonafide specialty with all the accoutrements attached thereto. To that end I offer this humble beginning.

Is the use of Idiopathic to describe an illness diminishing as medical science makes new discoveries?

From Wikipedia:

"Advances in medical science improve the study of causes of diseases and the classification of diseases; thus, regarding any particular condition or disease, as more root causes are discovered, and as events that seemed spontaneous have their origins revealed, the percentage of cases designated as idiopathic decreases." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_disease