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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.

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. :(