Where do things stand right now in Lyme World?
Things are tribal. Everyone sticks to their own group, their own beliefs. Newbies come and have to sift through scatterings of propaganda and science. Then they have to make a judgement that is sure to be based on incomplete data.
Before I got sick, I was a partner in a research firm. I researched stuff 24/7.
I still haven't managed to entirely grasp who believes in what is true, who believes in what is glaringly false, and who is just straight up lying.
I do know that in the US close to 500,000 will get Lyme this year, and maybe as many as 20% of those will not get well.
The CDC and the NHS and leading academics and tick-borne disease credentialed clinicians all contribute, each in their own way, to the persistent crazy stall of progress.
The appalling complexities at play do not help.
Things are tribal. Everyone sticks to their own group, their own beliefs. Newbies come and have to sift through scatterings of propaganda and science. Then they have to make a judgement that is sure to be based on incomplete data.
Before I got sick, I was a partner in a research firm. I researched stuff 24/7.
I still haven't managed to entirely grasp who believes in what is true, who believes in what is glaringly false, and who is just straight up lying.
I do know that in the US close to 500,000 will get Lyme this year, and maybe as many as 20% of those will not get well.
The CDC and the NHS and leading academics and tick-borne disease credentialed clinicians all contribute, each in their own way, to the persistent crazy stall of progress.
The appalling complexities at play do not help.