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Not sure about his talk, but technically the slide in question does not say EBV or SARS etc cause ME/CFS. It says x % of patients infected with those develop ME/CFS symptoms. Also, Chia is part of one of those research teams; it's a stretch to think Lipkin would be unaware of his efforts, but I...

I did not listen to the presentations, so perhaps it's folded into those, but I could not find anything definitive in terms of cohorts' distribution through the US. My sense, based on the slides, is that a majority are from within the US, and of those, most come from the NorthEast/MidAtlantic...

I was just being silly. I agree with you 100%. There are many things I struggle to convey these days, and sarcasm is one. My bad. But to your point that I highlighted, only in a good world with no agenda other that pure scientific inquiry. This is not a good world, and pretty much everyone has...

But they do realize medical economies like streamlined reasoning, stripped bare of some unessential, and essential, thought and effort.

Oh, FFS. What's next, functional death?

When I introduce to a doctor something I got off the web - which is A LOT - I try to note its pedigree. I point out its true source, e.g, researcher and publication, whether NIH-sponsored or otherwise. I have far too many clinicians AND researchers who are clueless to backstories they should...

If they are insinuating patients on the internet created the concept of chronic Lyme, they need to do some more homework. IDSA and NIH papers are laden with chronic Lyme references well back into the early and mid-'80's. There are a ton of case studies, the most famous (infamous?) of which may...

First sentence into the narrative: "The existence of a chronic form of Lyme disease is a source of worldwide controversy." No, it is not, nor has it ever been - at least for clinicians and researchers and patients with a bit more than a simple, superficial relationship with the disease.

Nonviable spirochetal remnants or debris is the theory IDSA-types try to run with.

Well, technically, "a" Lyme treatment. :) Incidentally, PCR's are far more likely to have a false negative when it comes to Borrelia, than a false positive, simply by virtue of the spirochetes aversion to blood.

Yes, I wasn't suggesting what was dropped in 1962 was either babesia or Lyme. Indeed, neither seems likely since, according to Newby, one of the crew members brought a contagion back with him and it infected one of his children with a "long, hard-to-remember name." The child recovered. But a...

Records are sparse, but apparently enough survive for Newby to piece a narrative together that suggests directives mandating "non-lethal" agents, with an eye toward disabling large swaths of sugar cane laborers for protracted periods to disrupt Cuba's economy. Weaponizing ticks was happening...

"...both OCHOS/SFN were attributed to Post Treatment Lyme disease Syndrome of presumed autoimmune etiology." Presumed? Is that how they do medicine? "Patient recovered on symptomatic therapy." Bets? "COVID-19 triggered exacerbation of OCHOS/SFN..." Oh, so the patient hadn't fully recovered...

I find myself wondering if Willy interacted with Erich Traub of Operation Paperclip fame. I cannot see how they could have avoided at least meeting one another given their respective expertise and frequency of visits to Ft. Detrick, and/or the conference circuit.

Makes for a good read, though. :) She's on my list of author's I'd like to talk to.

Re-reading it. It's all pretty eye-opening, but one chapter in particular is fascinating. It concerns Operation Mongoose back in 1962. It arguably should be a must read by anyone with more than a passing interest in weaponizing TBDs, and the motivations behind US involvement in ticks and...

Plenty of precedent for this, I suspect. Although not viruses, spirochetes are notoriously adept at making the immune system think they are not there. So it's not as if our immune systems always get it right. Diagnostics don't always help. Testing brings in the overtly human arrogant blunder...

This is an Aucott product. If memory serves me, isn't he an ex-Infectious-Disease-expert-turned-rheumatologist? Wonder what his emphasis might be. "...there is no biological method to diagnose PTLDS..." Sure there is. There are several. At least three are FDA-approved: Conventional ELISA...

Clearly, CFS is unacceptable. Regardless, do we know definitively that even a majority of people diagnosed with ME/CFS are, in fact, post anything? Do we trust diagnostics, or their assorted protocols, across the board enough to accept a label which by definition states we are cleared of a...

Ah, some one had the presence of mind to avoid embracing "chronic covid". Talk about stigma associated with a simple, single adjective...