X-Message-Number: 18940 From: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:51:08 EDT Subject: Something to Consider Maybe.... Cryonet: After reading Ben Best's post yesterday, I decided to go ahead and post the following quotes / excerpts from an upcoming post of mine (or which there is no telling when I will get the opportunity to edit and then post in its entirity -- but the following is not my writing, and I will provide the "source" later on): "In researching Lyme, horror stories surface not only of patients woes, but of persecuted physicians, hounded by state medical boards, threatened by the CDC, harassed by the board of health, and sued by insurance companies; frightened of seizure of their medical records and facing the possibility of loss of licensure, they throw up their hands in frustration, according to one well-respected author on Lyme disease." __________________________________ The Lyme Disease Conspiracy by Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., M.D. Reprinted from Senate Committee Hearing on Lyme Disease August 5, 1993 http://www.jersey.net/~joebur/conspire.htm "There is a core group of university-based Lyme disease researchers and physicians whose opinions carry a great deal of weight. Unfortunately many of them act unscientific- ally and unethically. They adhere to outdated, self-serving views and attempt to personally discredit those whose opinions differ from their own. They exert strong ethically questionable influence on medical journals, which enables them to publish and promote articles that are badly flawed. They work with government agencies to bias the agenda of consensus meetings, and have worked to exclude from these meetings and scientific seminars those with alternate opinions. They behave this way for reasons of personal or professional gain, and are involved in obvious conflicts of interest." __________________________________ "One man's insurance company denied him even oral antibiotics, stating there was no proof he'd ever had Lyme disease, then denied his application for life insurance on the basis of "a history of Lyme disease." Figure that one out." __________________________________ dcj Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18940