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[LymeScience @LymeScience]

The wonderful Brooke Eby has ALS and is sick of people trying to recruit her into the chronic Lyme scam.

The chronic Lyme cult aggressively targets people with ALS, MS, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's. None of these have any connection to real #Lyme disease.

[Brooke Eby @limpbroozkit]

it feels like an mlm at this point

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@BostonGlobe What an irresponsible headline. He had non-specific symptoms that could have been many different illnesses.

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@SherylNYT RFK Jr is quoted here:

https://t.co/dOYCeFcbGI

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@SherylNYT Probably a good idea to mention that RFK Jr has profited from lawsuits falsely claiming that glyphosate causes cancer.

[Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D. @RepKimSchrier]

Vaccines and routine care like vitamin K are safe and effective. RFK Jr: By continuing to spew misinformation, you are actively putting newborns in danger.

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

Note the use of the long-discredited ELISpot test to facilitate a fraudulent diagnosis.

"What is alarming, public hospital experts emphasize, is the proliferation of private centers that bypass confirmation filters to market false diagnoses."

https://t.co/VmzPTCq2DP

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

El Debate:

The high price of broken hope: first lawsuit in Spain for false Lyme diagnoses

A businessman from Valencia suffered for years without a diagnosis until he fell into a private network that charged him more than 80,000 euros for an illness he never had.

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Clinicians should avoid Lyme disease PCR in favor of serologic testing, study authors say

PCR tests have lower sensitivity, rarely inform clinical decision making, and are expensive, the researchers argue.

Read more: https://t.co/Av7YqOA1z4

📷: James L. Occi, AFPMB / Flickr cc

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@PopoviciViolet1 @CIMB_MDPI Thank you for your review.

It doesn't include reports by Salahuddin Nasir et al & Christina Michael et al:

https://t.co/gLf5hloN4T

Here is a brief history of how disulfiram became a quack Lyme treatment:

https://t.co/hkCGKVKNqu

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@s_iwanczak @NaczelnaL @RzeczPacjenta @BartChmielowiec @MZ_GOV_PL @aK_Sojka @AgnieszkaSzust3 @a_bazydloMD @DkorycinskaK @k_pyrc @kosik_md The story behind the disulfiram debacle is horrific. Chronic Lyme advocates funded Stanford scientists who reported disulfiram killed Lyme bacteria in vitro. The research was hyped at a pseudoscience conference paid for by crank billionaires Steven and Alexandra Cohen.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

CHD trying to intimidate me into silence..again. Not sure where to begin with their new dog whistle but a few facts about the health disinformation from the pernicious wellness industry pushing their fake products for pure greed and profit:

1. 200,000 Americans needlessly perished bc they refused Covid vaccinations in 2021-22, many demanding ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or other ineffective medications sold online with expensive telehealth visits. Documented in my book, Deadly Rise of Antiscience @JHUPress

2. Our West Texas measles epidemic in 2025: Two school aged children needlessly died bc their parents believed the disinformation, and 99 hospitalized with measles pneumonia and encephalitis, while Mr. Kennedy falsely claimed the MMR vaccine causes autism or is contaminated with aborted fetal remnants all debunked in my book, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism and expanded in my book with @MichaelEMann #ScienceUnderSiege

3. Measles accelerated. In October 2025 it moved into South Carolina and then Pennsylvania with >5,000 cases and seven needless deaths among the unvaccinated.

4. This week PAHO will meet to determine if the U.S. has lost its elimination status. But from my perspective it doesn’t matter, measles is back. And next late winter early spring will be awful.

5. And measles is just the first domino to fall. I predict we’ll also start seeing congenital rubella birth defects by this time next year and whooping cough will be here in a big way.

6. As I always say: Don’t listen to antivaccine activists. They don’t care about you or your family. They have another agenda

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

@RBMD1982 The kraken is also measles.

[DrDemetre @dr_demetre]

You are the swamp. How to eliminate chronic disease? Delete the Center at CDC responsible for measuring, preventing , and managing it.

Fact: The President’s budget proposals for FY 2026 and FY 2027 sought to eliminate the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).

Its primary mission is to prevent chronic diseases, promote health, and manage complications from existing long-term health conditions across all stages of life.

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

👀 More evidence that quack prescriptions probably don't work against real Lyme disease, let alone fake #Lyme disease.

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

Lyme disease Borrelia spirochetes are naturally resistant to clinically relevant concentrations of rifampin, trimethoprim, and dapsone. Learn more in #JournalSpectrum: https://t.co/AZk5kydOjI

[Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD @KCKlatt]

I had a call with MAHA folks a couple months after the election when they were mocking and spitting in the face of scientists and public health officials. They made clear they were relying on influencers, with top advisers being functional medicine docs and chiropractors. They had no interest in being connected with folks who've been doing public health nutrition work for decades and learning which levers to press.

The only place to go from here is to own up to the serious harm they've caused and admit to getting drunk on anti-establishment power that made them turn a blind eye to the harms of aligning with an obvious deregulatory administration explicitly against their stated goals, admit to the wellness griftication of MAHA and commit to expunging it, and leverage their residual political capital to help experts push actual policies and mechanisms to improve public health.

[Sarah Despres @sarahdespres]

This woman died from measles after giving birth. Meanwhile @CDCgov leadership blocked the publication of a health alert to providers regarding risks of measles during pregnancy

[Open Forum Infectious Diseases @OFIDJournal]

Things We Do for No Reason – Polymerase Chain Reaction for Lyme Disease Diagnostic Testing

✅ Just Accepted
✍️ @weskufel
🔗 https://t.co/PVeelominF

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

More by Dr. Charles Radis, DO:

https://t.co/S5QMP7aVZE

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

The DO: Rheumatologist Chuck Radis, DO, is an expert in diagnosing mysterious maladies. In his latest book, he gives us a bird’s eye view of the diagnostic process.

‘The Mystery in the Room: A Physician’s Journey Treating Patients with Rare Diseases’

[LymeScience @LymeScience]

More by Dr. Charles Radis, DO:

https://t.co/S5QMP7btPc

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

ICYMI.
We can’t let ourselves become numb to children dying from diseases that have been long eradicated in our country…
😞