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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

      Just listened to the Lyme disease episode of Science vs and while I'm generally a fan of the show, this one was pretty excruciating to listen to

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

      The first bit was fine - a description of Lyme, a scientist talking best evidence about antibiotic use, the whys and hows of the disease

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

      But then they moved on to the obvious issue - Chronic Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome And boy, were there some problems

      2:49 PM - 18 Jun 2018
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          The main issue was that PTLDS was presented as an accepted fact, an explanation for the very-clearly-debunked chronic Lyme symptoms

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          The thing is, that's not true at all. The show presented the CDC's opinion as "PTLDS definitely exists, definitely caused by Lyme", for example Here's what the CDC actually says:pic.twitter.com/lzV6igIxNg

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          In other words, "Some people have said that PTLDS is a real thing, but no one is sure"

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          This is NOT to say that people aren't suffering. The argument is around what the cause of these symptoms is

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          There were more problems with the episode. They talked about this study as definitive evidence that PTLDS exists, when actually all it shows is that if you ask a bunch of people complaining about symptoms how they feel, they score worse than healthy controlspic.twitter.com/gym7U6n1fa

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          The real issue was that after the first 2 minutes, they had not a single medical expert on the show. Which seems to me the worst kind of nonsense

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        8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 18 Jun 2018

          @skepticalraptor has an excellent summation of Lyme/Chronic Lyme/PTLDS here: https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/chronic-lyme-disease-scientific-evidence-supporting/#The_CDC_and_chronic_Lyme_disease_myths …

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