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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." 
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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 They adhere to outdated, self-serving 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." 
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"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." 
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dcj

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