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Lyme disease—who is credible?
Posted by PalMD on May 6, 2009 I recently had a pleasant, brief email exchange with Kris Newby, the producer of the latest medical advocacy pic, Under Our Skin. There’s been a number of similar movies lately, mostly about quacky cancer therapies. This one is apparently much better made, and follows the controversy regarding “chronic” Lyme disease. I’d heard an interview about…
How not to think
Posted by PalMD on March 16, 2009 Thankfully, I don’t receive all that much blog-related mail. But this weekend I received several communications about a piece in popular liberal blog. The piece is (ostensibly) about Lyme disease, which coincidentally happens to be one of the topics of my first post here at SBM. In fact, I’ve written about Lyme disease a number…
Does Lyme disease make you shoot people?
Posted by PalMD on March 9, 2009 A pastor in Illinois was shot and killed over the weekend. A similar tragedy happened in my community many years ago. Religious leaders are very public figures and have an emotional connection with members of their communities, so I suppose it’s not so strange that they should be targets. Many of the cases I have…
ZOMFG! I love teh crazies!
Posted by PalMD on February 4, 2009 So I was checking out my incomming links on sitemeter and I found a great one. You see, fake diseases alway bring out the wackos. This is the thing about medical wackos. Not only do they think that they have diseases that no real doctor thinks exists, but they think everyone else must have it,…