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Also, check out Hillary Johnson's twitter on Hanson's conclusions. Lots of excitement in that group.

This. Once you realize you have been lied to, you know you have to screen for the truth going forward. With each lie you encounter thereafter, you begin to fear where the bottom may actually be. I wish we had the WB insight first, so we could have built off of that. Most people - like me -...

He might be a prologue, but he was human. I think, too, beyond his own sleights of hand, he was to a degree, scripted. Of course, today, his is an insulated and protected prologue. I believe Newby truly was fearful for her safety. I think it is in no way a stretch to imagine the US and its...

No, WB was invested in Borrelia and ticks and Rickettsia and RMSF and you name it decades before. WB is, when all is said and done, a prologue.

You are no way a bother, @chrisb . If you look at the description of the note (my pg 203) it says this is a note concerning "the Lyme outbreak ticks." So this should be from a Benach batch, I'm guessing, which would pinpoint the date a bit better. Still, if the note was done retrospectively...

He also would have worked on "local" ticks for Rickettsia etc, for many years before that.

Newby may have gotten the dates wrong, as well as the nature of the papers. Alternatively, the two papers she noted aren't on PubMed. I would be curious to see where this goes. As you are aware, she seems to embrace the chimera solution. I do not understand why, since I don't think it's...

I am sorry your friend died. It sounds to me he had caring doctors who tried to help him, and he was very brave trying to follow their recommendations.

SPECT Scans were used extensively in the 1990's to both demonstrate the existence of Lyme encephalopathy, and the retreat of the infection after treatment. Here is a study done be Dr. Eric Logigian doing just that. Lest someone think he was outside of mainstream line, here is a study around the...

Yes. I don't think you can, or should, just walk away from any given government's potential role. The bioweapon thing is so simple to dismiss out of hand as just another conspiracy angle. The problem is, in the world of Lyme at least, you don't need that angle. You can chalk this mess up to...

@chrisb, there was a flurry of activity surrounding Newby's book release in at least one major Lyme forum. I used to belong to several, but I stopped frequenting the others as it just got to be too much. But on that one, they did discuss to a degree the ramifications to WB, and some were not...

Sure, but if you were going to only criticize every ME/CFS clinician and/or researcher for mistakes or shortcomings, you'd have run out of options years ago, and you'd still be coming up short. None of them has gotten it right yet, at least not conclusively, and many if not most blunder their...

Until they slip and fall, evidently. Then what preceded is forgotten.

Pick a ME/CFS expert. They all have strengths and weaknesses. Certainly the ones I have met, and I've met several prominent ones. I could write to those strengths and weaknesses at any time. Should I, I hope I would address both, that I would be fair, that at the very least I would offer up some...

Look around. See many ME/CFS physicians? They are being run out of town before they ever set foot in it, not just by academia, but by patients in threads like this. Ah, you're on the side of patients. Good. Let's try working on recruiting a new crop or researchers and clinicians instead of...

Explain to me the ethics of crucifying one of our own, please, without balancing criticism with deserved praise - especially over "disorganised". Unless you were being ironic. On second thought, spare me - I'm not interested.

For goodness sake, he's 82. It is unsettling how quickly we turn on one of our own. :(

Let's not forget he helped many patients reach their disability pensions. That he helped validate their disease when other clinicians, and sometimes even friends and family, only offered disdain. He at least tried - there aren't many that are willing to even do that. We worry about a shrinking...

Yes, the CDC is backing this initiative, ostensibly to spare the common physician the complexities of the Western Blot. Also ostensibly, to save money. One step forward, two steps back.

You've made impressive headway with this, @chrisb. I am not well enough at the moment to try to dig thru the book, but what I seem to remember that might help is two things. First, my sense was WB was taken aback to see this particular rickettsial agent in the US. It had never been seen in the...