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"Most scientists and researchers vehemently deny the existence of chronic Lyme disease"
Whether they call it lyme or something else matters little to me. They can name it anything they like. What I care about is explanation for the abnormal test results we share, and finding successful treatments.
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Hoosiers51
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I am just really confused by this.
And also, what would they say about people like me that had an overwhelmingly positive Western Blot IgM from Stony Brook 5 years into my illness, while on antibiotics?
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Vermont_Lymie
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quote:Originally posted by dguy: "Most scientists and researchers vehemently deny the existence of chronic Lyme disease"
Telling choice of words. They have to "vehemently" deny the existence of chronic Lyme disease because they have to vehemently ignore all the scientific evidence of chronic lyme.
That is, it is a religion to them; the dwindling numbers of deniers of chronic lyme disease have a religious belief that the spirochetes disappear and do not make people ill, despite all the scientific evidence to the contrary.
Whereas real scientists look at all the evidence.
It must make the IDSA true believers very nervous to be ignoring the increasing amount of scientific evidence that proves the existence of chronic lyme.
They would not need to be so vehement, and destructive of our health, if they would only act like true scientists. Their worldview is ending, and they are getting antsy!
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sparkle7
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It's propaganda. Take a look at the thread about Plum Island that's current.
Now, they want to blame the spread of Lyme on Global Warming... & lack of predators & re-forestation, bla, bla, bla.
It's a bunch of garbage... I don't have anything against anyone, personally, who goes to an ivy league school - but their rhetoric is slanted towards an elitist agenda.
In order to excel at a school like Yale - you have to conform to their idea of society... And they are on the top of the pyramid as far as an "educated, scientific opinion" in this society.
Sometimes, you have to think for yourself & go against the tide. I don't like their condescending attitude that they know what's best for everyone & that the rest of us are ignorant.
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It's an abridged version of that screed that was posted about a week ago. Just some toady kissing the Dr. Death's @$$ on her way up.
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Not too cool. I guess I'm a huge dreamer when I was hoping they might actually come to their senses and admit they could have made some mistakes.
Even when I first started reading, I WANTED to believe this was going to be a start of something good from them.
I think what alarms me is that my daughter has a friend in medical school RIGHT NOW and they are being taught about Lyme with IDSA standards.
How can we hope that there will be change if even those studying to be doctors in med school THIS YEAR are still being taught this? It's frustrating.
Blame it on whatever they want, it still doesn't change the fact that SOMEDAY it's going to hit them or their families and will they EVER wake up?
Cathy
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D Bergy
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"Sometimes, you have to think for yourself & go against the tide"
There is more wisdom in those words than many realize.
Thanks Sparkle7.
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sparkle7
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thank you!
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Sparkle you nailed it about the condescending elitist attitude....
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Yale Mum on Patent Data
Business New Haven 12/13/2004 by BNH NEW HAVEN - Although Yale University participated in a survey of 165 colleges and universities showing the institutions had filed for a record number of patents and earned almost $1 billion in combined licensing revenue last year, Yale's Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) requested the school's data not be published individually. The school was one of just whose data remained anonymous. OCR Managing Director Jonathan Soderstrom said his office withheld attribution of specific data because it believes licensing income does not reflect other positive results of Yale innovations, such as new biotechnology companies and large sums of venture capital. "I don't believe the measure of our success should be the royalty dollars brought in," Soderstrom told the Yale Daily News. "So this is my little world of protest." Over the last five years, Soderstrom said, biotechnology start-ups have attracted more than a billion dollars in equity investments and have increased real estate values. The survey was released earlier this month by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). In 1999, AUTM ranked Yale fourth among U.S. universities in revenue generated from licensed discoveries, earning more than $40 million in royalties.
They have made $$$$$$$ on our suffering.Lyme has been their cash cow.
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The Yale article is an embarrassment,not only for the content, but the way it's written. As Marvin Tikvah would say, "C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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