"Experts warn that celebrity tell-alls and rampant “pseudoscience” surrounding Lyme is fuelling misdiagnoses. “Lyme disease has been plagued with misinformation for decades,” said Andrea Love, the executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation. “Unfortunately, there are instances of celebrities bringing attention to Lyme when it is unlikely they actually were infected with this bacteria.”"
What's been fueling misdiagnoses - both false negatives and false positives - is a combination of dreadful diagnostics and contested symptoms that has been around for 40 years. A steady stream of propaganda hasn't helped. It's also been a situation characterized not so much by pseudoscience as bad science all around, and has been pretty much from the get-go.
Just a strange article. It has the feel of something written almost a quarter century ago. If this found its way into a US-based journal today, I suspect the push-back would be immediate and substantive. There should be little tolerance for unregenerately one-sided positions anymore (irrespective of if it's the ALDF or ILADS or whomever). There's just too much we still don't know.
What's been fueling misdiagnoses - both false negatives and false positives - is a combination of dreadful diagnostics and contested symptoms that has been around for 40 years. A steady stream of propaganda hasn't helped. It's also been a situation characterized not so much by pseudoscience as bad science all around, and has been pretty much from the get-go.
Just a strange article. It has the feel of something written almost a quarter century ago. If this found its way into a US-based journal today, I suspect the push-back would be immediate and substantive. There should be little tolerance for unregenerately one-sided positions anymore (irrespective of if it's the ALDF or ILADS or whomever). There's just too much we still don't know.
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