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hiker53
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Great article in the July 1st New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/01/130701fa_fact_specter?currentPage=1

Simply confirms what we all know, but it is good to see more articles on Lyme.

Hiker53

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BobG
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Yes, the article is more balanced. One of the points made by the article that struck me was the dearth of leadership in the Lyme community on our issues.

Do people agree?

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Keebler
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Indeed. LymeDisease.org does a great job with education but they can't match the errors the IDSA perpetuates.

The problem with mass market media is that they tend to give automatic authority to the governement experts and they don't have time to really do their homework.

They also are often funded, quite largely, by the pharmaceutical and insurance industry, both of which are very much against the idea of treating chronic lyme, or even admitting its existence.

Journalists are also not so quick to believe patient reports and nearly always follow an patient account such with the idiot (IDSA) "exerpts" that discount, rather than discuss with those who are really doing the work with lyme (ILADS).

FOR ANYONE NEW TO LYME: IMPORTANT TO KNOW

that, while many good points are raised, Specter also has many very serious errors here that could cost someone years of suffering, or even cost lives.

See the comments on the NPR link from Specter's interview about his article. Just keeping both links together here for easy reference:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/01/130701fa_fact_specter?utm_source=Last+Sapi+appeal&utm_campaign=New+Yorker&utm_medium=email

The New Yorker, Annals of Medicine

THE LYME WARS

The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.

- by Michael Specter - July 1, 2013

No "reader comment" feature

http://www.newyorker.com/contact/contactus

Contact The New Yorker (but it will do no good to contact the author, himself)

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http://www.npr.org/2013/06/26/195223507/the-lyme-wars-that-tiny-ticks-have-wrought

NPR "Fresh Air" Interview with Michael Specter - June 26, 2013

'The Lyme Wars' That Tiny Ticks Have Wrought

Reader / Listener COMMENTS are enlighting. Be sure to see those, too.
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cottonbrain
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Specter's interview was maddening -- so many misconstrued notions!

After the show, my friend called me to say what a great program it was; she and her husband listened to every word...groan...

thx, Keebs, for the links!

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