"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Chronic Lyme disease: Fake diagnosis or pseudo-diagnosis, NOT fake disease

Post author By Orac
Post date June 3, 2019
128 Comments on Chronic Lyme disease: Fake diagnosis or pseudo-diagnosis, NOT fake disease

For once, Twitter actually changed Orac’s mind. Chronic Lyme disease is not a fake disease. Rather, it is a fake diagnosis or pseudodiagnosis disconnected from what is really going on physiologically. That’s why only quacks use the diagnosis.

Tags antibiotics, chronic lyme disease, Dr. Oz, Lyme disease, Mehmet Oz, quackery, Twitter

Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Deaths and complications due to treating the fake disease known as “chronic Lyme disease”

Post author By Orac
Post date June 21, 2017
145 Comments on Deaths and complications due to treating the fake disease known as “chronic Lyme disease”

Alternative practitioners invent and treat fake diseases like adrenal fatigue and chronic Lyme disease. Unfortunately, as a recent CDC report on complications due to treating chronic Lyme disease with long term antibiotics shows, treating fake diseases can cause harm and, in some cases, even kill.

Tags antibiotics, Borrelia burgdorferi, catheter-associated sepsis, CDC, chronic lyme disease, Clostridium difficile, complications, Lyme disease, sepsis

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