Re: In Praise of Lyme Activists

a_weisman_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 12:00:17 -0800

GreatCLOD wrote:

>Lyme Activists have accomplised a great deal over the years.

I have two answers to this and a question.

Question: Exactly what?

Answer 1: Yes, they've done such a wonderful job that now they can shut
down their efforts and go away and leave Lymeland comfortably in the
wonderful state that they've helped create and achieved.

Answer 2: Yes they have accomplished a great deal of harm to the Lyme
cause and helped set us back for decades. They have deterred other
efforts that might have some chance of helping with their distracting
demagoguery and advocacy for causes directly determinetal to the cause
they CLAIM to be working for. Time to leave terrible enough alone.

>In the public mind,

LOL The "public mind" which you know so well and are an authorized
spokesomoron for?

>Lyme is no longer simply the "Classic" that the Allen has
>trumpeted for 30 years.

Sure. That's why so many articles in the popular press, not to mention
the medical literature, say exactly that! LOL

And what is more important than the "public mind" is the medical
community and their view of things, which, if anything, is worse and
certainly no better. Because THEY are the ones who diagnose and treat,
not the "public mind" because the "public mind" has no prescription
writing privileges.

>Countless cases of Lyme that would never have
>been diagnosed on Steere's watch, thousands of lives that would have
>been ruined, have been diagnosed and treated successfully.

Yes with the standard treatment as they always have been. However those
who don't succeed on the standard Steere Yale treatment course are
still as f%^%ED as ever. Probably worse.

>Not just
>doctor's, but the entire layer of healthcare professionals beneath
>them, and the general public, have had their eyes opened by the hard
and dedicated work of the activists.

Are you tripping? Or what?

Either this is an amazingly pollyanish self serving SPIN or you are on
hallucinogenic drugs notsogreatCLOD.

>Those of us whose lives have been ruined by Steere and his
>rheumatogical evil spawn know who did it, if not why.

"Rheumotological evil spawn" LOL ROTFL LMAO Good one!

>The problem of disseminated illness is not yet solved--Steere has yet
>to admit it exists- but the early diagnosis and treatment of the
>illness is far more common than if the patient activist leaders-mostly
>all woman-had never acted.

Mostly all ninnie!

>As well, the existence of "Lyme-like" illness caused by other
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>has be recognized on a nation wide basis.
>Weisman and Dirtman really have nothing useful to contribute-
>not in the laboratory or the courtroom, and certainly not here.

And yet YOU have made tremendous contributions from your soapbox! ALl
those bubbles you blow drift off and pop meaninglessly.

>They can smartass and insult until their mouse dies

"Mouse dies"???

>-they accomplish
>nothing, that is their fate in professional life.

As if you have any clue? And certainly YOU are a man of tremendous
accomplishments! It is clear from all that you write, all your endless,
BORING self righteous moralizing!

And you can feel really good about supporting and encouraging kathleen
right into the prison wing of her local psych ward too pal!

>The pathos of their efforts is numbing.

What a nice phrase! What does it mean???

By the way smellyfishcrapbrains, I hope you got the lumps of coal I
sent you?