Tincup
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Unlike the IDSA, I have a personal policy to not go after the family of those who we disagree with (IDSA guideline authors). They are off limits in my book.
THROW THE BOOK OUT!
Especially when the families are publicly supporting garbage that ends up hurting sick patients.
Tincup
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IDSA guideline authors and their friends have an annoying habit of taking research of others (on our side of the debate) and publicly discrediting it- falsely claiming contamination in the lab, etc.
They've even been so bold as to "undiagnose" the cause of death listed for 100 people who died from Lyme disease.
Their opinions were based simply on their own review of death certificates (no medical records, exams, autopsy reports, etc.), but it was still published. Anyhow...
Now we have two authors from NY Medical College- Gary Wormser and a new addition, Vanessa Wormser.
They are publicly discrediting the work of the 2 authors credited with describing the first case of neurologic Lyme in 1922.
They claim in part... "The paper may not deserve the historic recognition that it has received."
Maybe they are picking on authors now who can't defend themselves since the authors still living have kicked back, kicked their butts and proven them wrong?
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 26;3(2):ofw085. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw085. eCollection 2016.
Did Garin and Bujadoux Actually Report a Case of Lyme Radiculoneuritis?
Wormser GP1, Wormser V1. Author information
1Division of Infectious Diseases , New York Medical College , Valhalla. Abstract
A 1922 report by Garin and Bujadoux is widely regarded as describing the first case of neurologic Lyme borreliosis.
Although the patient reported had a tick bite followed by the development of a rash and radiculoneuritis, there were a number of highly atypical features, raising the question of whether the patient, in fact, had neurologic Lyme borreliosis.
The paper may not deserve the historic recognition that it has received.
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