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
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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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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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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@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 …Show this thread
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