Dr Horowitz | The Politics of Lyme Disease_ A Candid Take

This is a medical political disease. It's not just a medical illness. And unfortunately, our government has done an extremely poor job. They have taken sides early on in a scientific debate with the idsa, the Infectious Disease Society of America, who early on with their guidelines said, chronic Lyme doesn't exist. It's not a chronic persistent infection. The blood tests are reliable, even though the science said the exact opposite, which is what the ILADS guidelines were publishing, publishing. But people took sides, as oftentimes, unfortunately, in medicine, they do. And you know this from the history of medicine, this kind of action has been the fact you look at OB GYN with Dr. Semmelweis from the 1800s. He said, hey, I'm washing my hands. And women don't die as often and babies do well. And they basically, he committed suicide. They threw him out of medicine, going, you're crazy. Why would you wash your hands? Or Dr. Marshall from Australia, we don't need to take people's stomachs out when they have ulcers. It's a bacteria.