On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:41:41 PM UTC-5, Phil wrote:
Okay, let me try to respond to this in a non-angry way.
You can be angry if you like; you have a much bigger stake in the issue than I do :)
There is scientifically little question that there is persistent Lyme disease.
There are many thousands of patients being treated by many Lyme specialists
who have persistent Lyme disease. You can show they have Lyme antibodies;
you can detect the spirochete with PCR; you can examine their tissue
and find spirochetes (if you are very patient);
you can show that these reduce in number during antibiotic treatment
and then return when you stop treatment.
Most importantly, these patients degenerate terribly when taken off
antibiotics, but do well as long as they stay on antibiotics.
Then I would think this would all be easy to prove with a well-designed double-blind study or two. Has this been done? While science in general tends to resist change due to the entrenched positions of those highest up in the hierarchy, there's nothing like a little (or a lot of) good evidence to change people's minds pretty quickly.
There are lots of researchers in the world, and especially if this is so obvious of an issue as you describe then it ought to be easy to resolve the issue. Even accounting for a few extra degrees of naiveté on my part, I find it hard to believe that there can be such a far-reaching conspiracy against recognition of the truth here.
I have no strong opinion or stake in the question. I remain curious about the subject having watched "Under our Skin" recently, and my fiance is writing a paper on Lyme Disease for school so I have had occasion to read the CDC pages and do a few literature searches to help find sources for her.
G.
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