NEWS: Lorraine Johnson talks Lyme on "Breaking the Set"
LymeDisease.org’s executive director discusses the controversy about Lyme on the national program “Breaking the Set,” with anchor Abby Martin.
Topics covered include why the CDC changed its estimate of annual US Lyme cases from 30,000 to 300,000, how the IDSA tries to prevent peer-review of Lyme disease journal articles, and the difficulty Lyme patients have in receiving care.
Lorraine’s segment runs about eight minutes. At 6:14, learn what the CDC said about LymeDisease.org. (Hint: not a compliment.)
The statement from the CDC that accuses Lorraine and LymeDisease.org LDO of spreading “unscientific information” is outrageous.
It’s the other way around. LDO is a staunch proponent of good science, evidence based medicine, and patient-centered health care.
By promoting the IDSA Guidelines for Lyme, CDC endorses a publication that suppresses good science, violates most of the principles of evidence-based medicine, and turns the concept of patient-center health care upside down.
Unfortunately, this is part of a long-running disinformation campaign by CDC and IDSA to discredit science that contradicts the IDSA position on chronic Lyme, and to smear the reputations of Lyme support groups and scientists that pose a threat.
What we have here is a system of organized malpractice, which I think deserves its own category, just like organized crime and white collar crime.
Time to file a FOIA request to find out who approved that statement. There needs to be accountability and ultimately major reforms.
They have all been negligent in reporting and obeying the science for decades.
They knew in 1911 spirochetal disease could not be killed by any means known to man.
They knew in 1981 Lyme/AIDS/MadCow was the same thing.
They knew in 1985 they had given it to all of us for decades.
They knew in 1991 Lyme vaccines were infective.
They knew in 2008 Lyme was a Crime Against Humanity in failure to tell or treat the truth to let people keep their lives for a profit driven Nation and Doctors that did not care.
And they know now we have no filters to contain in the air, the water, or in the blood and do nothing to save USA.
If lyme is so easy to cure, let the people who think lyme is easily cured, purposely, allow several ticks to bite them and , if and when, they get sick, treat for a month. idsa needs to step up and volunteer to have all members correct our thinking, by having several tick bites.
In June of 2014, the New York State Senate adopted a resolution calling on “the Centers for Disease Control to reevaluate its guidance on Lyme and other Tick-Borne diseases” and calling on “the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and other federal agencies to provide more funding for these diseases.”
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thank you for stepping out to do this interview. you represent untold thousands upon thousands of us.