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Right. Sigh.

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/89/12/1308

Can't read it, but Oh Dear, not the same Mark J. Edwards that believes in Functional Cognitive Disorder, ie no organic cause, in CFS and fibromyalgia??

Now this is depressing. It suggests (to me, at least) they don't know how to cure whatever it is, and there is nothing on the horizon. When I first tested positive for Babesia, I was lucky enough to talk with one of the few experts in Babesiosis. When I pressed him about treatment, he countered...

Oh, I have problems with much of what he wrote. He mixes good solid data - like the Benach tidbit - with banal references like how long borrelia has been around, as if strain manipulation wasn't a thing, let alone friggen evolution.

Of course, if it's an active pathogen of any sort, an immune modulator does seem somewhat potentially counter-intuitive. This is the gamble many of those who push the post-treatment Lyme Syndrome theory and espouse things like Plaquenil. Perhaps there is merit to quieting the immune response...

I am familiar with his name. This is not the first time I have come across it. That's the best I can do, though. As for his piece, I don't think it will levy any meaningful impact on those who know anything about the history of Lyme, nor do I think those would be his intended target. I expect...

We knew this was coming. This is only the second I'm aware of in five or so months, though. I don't think his attack is very good. It's actually quite easy to counter on many points. But the biggest red flag is he invokes "conspiracy theorists." He did not need to. All he needed to do, if he...

In the end, he says very little here, at least definitively. All he has done is open up a whole batch of hypotheticals. Let's see: 1)Could be that the viruses found in healthy controls and the cohort do not cause symptoms in the former, but do in the latter; 2) They are missing the correct...

Nonetheless, there are plenty of known bugs that can defy conventional methods of detection, that in effect, act in stealth mode. And that's just known bugs.

I don't think they are talking trigger at all. I think they are speculating about an active infection, one that years ago caused outbreaks, but is now endemic in many places.

Don't let it be. If it is circular, keep in mind what goes around comes around. This talk of infectious eatiology also early on took hold with MS. Then it fell out of popularity and was replaced by an autoimmune theory. Now there is talk once again - after 5 decades - of an infectious cause at...

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.