Re: In Praise of Lyme Activists

a_weisman_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 12:06:39 -0800

Greatcod wrote:
> Where did my original post go? I didn't remove it.
> Anyway, I live on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where there is a great
> deal of Lyme, both diagnosed and not. Things are better, thanks to
> local and regional activists. Far from perfect, but given that the
> tests are worthless, and that Steere/Yale is a massive and very
> prestigious disinformation machine, the
> improvement is significant.

Yeah "thanks to the local and regional activists" LOL

Another pat on the back for yourselves!

Hey, I think your personal contributions from your soapbox are worth
noting too rottingfishbrain.

Noted.

BIG YAWN!

Now you can put your soapbox away and retire!

See ya. Wouldn't wanna be ya!

>You say "lyme" here, and many people know
> that it can be serious..because they know someone with it.

What a great success story!

> The opposition is the Harvard/Yale Medical School elite, and the New
> England
> Journal of Medicine.

Maybe you should start planning your regime change?

> These are regional institutions of Godlike
> Authority and reputation...If you want to argue that they have really
> fucked up, be prepared to be disbelieved, to be scorned and
humiliated.

Gee with your knowledgable balanced approach, what a suprise!

> Under those circumstances, the activists have done an admirable job.

We already heard how much you admire yourself.

>> And the doctors who diagnosed and treated us have practiced with
> courage and conviction.
> In a way, they are comparable to the brave souls in our intelligence
> community who tried to warn the Cold Warriors about the dangers of
> Islamic Terrorism....Dissmissed and ridiculed....but the only ones
who
> had the guts to do their job.

Okay MORON the "cold war" was the US vs USSR. It is over (for now at
least). This is the "war on terror" though I think the whole "war"
motif is a mistaken notion and approach.

The PROBLEM wasn't that warnings of the dangers of Islamic terrorism
were ignored, it was that the response was inadequate and the current
response is ill conceived, reactionary and making things WORSE not
better. Now THAT is an apt comparison to Lyme "activism"