Post by Admin/ Traveler on Dec 31, 2017 19:53:45 GMT
Straight Talk About Chronic Lyme Disease
From one of our "favorites" (sarcastic!), Phillip J. Baker, Ph.D. Executive Director, American Lyme Disease Foundation.
"Four years ago, we noted an example of irresponsible reporting on Lyme disease by an investigative television news team (1).
· Consequently, when we learned that this same group was airing a new five part series entitled, “The Lyme Wars: Investigating a Public Health Crisis”, we were most interested to see if they had done a better job this time in providing the public with more accurate and reliable information about Lyme disease.
· Sadly, that was not the case (2).
· Once again, the media failed to act responsibly and in the best interest of the public health.
· A PubMed search of the scientific literature will reveal that there are more than 12,000 publications dealing with virtually every aspect of Lyme disease.
· Since its discovery in the U.S. in the mid-1970s, we know a great deal about the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease which has been defined historically as a tick-borne infectious disease caused by a bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (3).
· Lyme disease is not the strange and mysterious disease that some imagine it to be. Any physician who is board certified in the specialty of infectious diseases certainly will know how to diagnose and treat Lyme disease.
· One does not need to have “special training” in medical school, just to learn how to diagnose and treat this particular infectious disease.
· Although the media falsely asserts that the scientific community is deeply divided on issues related to Lyme disease (2), there is wide-spread agreement among international and national experts on all major issues related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease (4).
· Unfortunately, the issue receiving the most attention in the media -- and on the internet-- is the condition called “chronic Lyme disease” that has yet to be defined unequivocally as a distinct clinical entity.
· This is due mainly due to the large amount of misinformation being disseminated by a small -- but vocal—minority of Lyme disease activists and “Lyme literate physicians” who, when it comes to understanding the peer-reviewed scientific literature on Lyme disease, do not appear to be at all “literate”."
So, rather than admit that the science is changing (what I like to refer to as "flat earthers" as they don't understand the concept that science DOES change as we get more understanding), they choose to do what??? Take a look for online studies in PubMed. Not say that we need more studies with our new understandings of the disease processes, not more clinical studies, since there are large discrepancies between what the literature says and what people are experiencing - but to do a search of PubMed articles?? Wow, good research (tongue in cheek!).
What they don't want you to know is that those that oversee PubMed are not allowing certain articles to be published there. That those doctors that ARE Lyme literate are being persecuted for holding a different view of the diseases and disease process, and that many LLMD's and Lyme researchers are being forced to shut down or just don't get enough funding to do the real work - they are NOT relying on PubMed for all of their research materials, which costs money.
I could rant on for a while (LOL) so I won't - but just know that 'they' are trying to deceive the world - and there's an old saying about that - "what wicked webs we weave, as we try to deceive." It WILL come unravelled on them, but we do have to educate ourselves and become vocal about all of this!!!! If we say/do nothing, they will win. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men (and women) to do nothing.
From one of our "favorites" (sarcastic!), Phillip J. Baker, Ph.D. Executive Director, American Lyme Disease Foundation.
"Four years ago, we noted an example of irresponsible reporting on Lyme disease by an investigative television news team (1).
· Consequently, when we learned that this same group was airing a new five part series entitled, “The Lyme Wars: Investigating a Public Health Crisis”, we were most interested to see if they had done a better job this time in providing the public with more accurate and reliable information about Lyme disease.
· Sadly, that was not the case (2).
· Once again, the media failed to act responsibly and in the best interest of the public health.
· A PubMed search of the scientific literature will reveal that there are more than 12,000 publications dealing with virtually every aspect of Lyme disease.
· Since its discovery in the U.S. in the mid-1970s, we know a great deal about the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease which has been defined historically as a tick-borne infectious disease caused by a bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi (3).
· Lyme disease is not the strange and mysterious disease that some imagine it to be. Any physician who is board certified in the specialty of infectious diseases certainly will know how to diagnose and treat Lyme disease.
· One does not need to have “special training” in medical school, just to learn how to diagnose and treat this particular infectious disease.
· Although the media falsely asserts that the scientific community is deeply divided on issues related to Lyme disease (2), there is wide-spread agreement among international and national experts on all major issues related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease (4).
· Unfortunately, the issue receiving the most attention in the media -- and on the internet-- is the condition called “chronic Lyme disease” that has yet to be defined unequivocally as a distinct clinical entity.
· This is due mainly due to the large amount of misinformation being disseminated by a small -- but vocal—minority of Lyme disease activists and “Lyme literate physicians” who, when it comes to understanding the peer-reviewed scientific literature on Lyme disease, do not appear to be at all “literate”."
So, rather than admit that the science is changing (what I like to refer to as "flat earthers" as they don't understand the concept that science DOES change as we get more understanding), they choose to do what??? Take a look for online studies in PubMed. Not say that we need more studies with our new understandings of the disease processes, not more clinical studies, since there are large discrepancies between what the literature says and what people are experiencing - but to do a search of PubMed articles?? Wow, good research (tongue in cheek!).
What they don't want you to know is that those that oversee PubMed are not allowing certain articles to be published there. That those doctors that ARE Lyme literate are being persecuted for holding a different view of the diseases and disease process, and that many LLMD's and Lyme researchers are being forced to shut down or just don't get enough funding to do the real work - they are NOT relying on PubMed for all of their research materials, which costs money.
I could rant on for a while (LOL) so I won't - but just know that 'they' are trying to deceive the world - and there's an old saying about that - "what wicked webs we weave, as we try to deceive." It WILL come unravelled on them, but we do have to educate ourselves and become vocal about all of this!!!! If we say/do nothing, they will win. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men (and women) to do nothing.