Please see the following recent emails addressed to the Tick-Borne Disease working Group....

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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>

To: "tickbornedisease@hhs.gov" <tickbornedisease@hhs.gov>, eugene shapiro <eugene.shapiro@yale.edu>
Cc: (98 Undisclosed recipients)
Date: 09/20/2020 10:22 AM
Subject: The Peter H. Duesberg Denial of Persistent Lyme Infection

To the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group,

Please see the Springer article below on HIV/AIDS denialism. A denialism which was damaging to global public health. Duesberg believed that AIDS is caused by unrelated factors such as drug abuse, antiretroviral medication, chronic malnutrition, poor sanitation, and hemophilia. [1]

Do we have members of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group suppressing evidence of persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment? [2]  Is this behavior “potentially damaging to global public health?” Has the disease been wrongly classified as a low-risk and non-urgent health threat as a result of these actions which have been supported by the US Centers for Disease Control?

Springer

Peter Duesberg and the Origins of HIV/AIDS Denialism
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79476-1_2

By Seth C. Kalichman, Center for HIV University of Connecticut Storrs USA

Ultimately it comes down to trust. Trusting what you hear. Trusting what you read. Trusting what one world-acclaimed scientist says over another. If denialism did not have a scientifically credible proponent it would never have been considered worthy of attention. But denialism has such a proponent.

Confusion as to whether HIV is the cause of AIDS is traceable to one man, Peter Duesberg. As a scientist, Duesberg appears credible because of his training and his indisputably impressive early career accomplishments.

Duesberg is in fact many things to many people, and opinions about him tend to split into extremes: Is Peter Duesberg an accomplished scientist or a deranged crackpot? Is he a victim of a conspiracy against dissident AIDS scientists or a perpetrator of denialism on a global scale? Has he attracted a cadre of legitimate scientists who share his dissident views or is he a magnet for pseudoscientists and the disaffected and deranged? Is Peter Duesberg a symbol of the routine...

Continued…

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

References

1 Inventing the AIDS Virus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventing_the_AIDS_Virus

2 Tuttle directs pointed questions to TBD Working Group member Shapiro
https://www.lymedisease.org/carl-tuttle-tbdwg-comments/

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2nd Letter to the TBDWG.......

On 09/18/2020 12:15 PM CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net> wrote:

To: The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group,

Please see the article below.... but Lyme is a simple nuisance disease as dictated by the IDSA, CDC and ALDF! 

Dr. Eva Sapi makes great strides in Lyme disease and cancer research
https://www.lymedisease.org/sapi-lyme-disease-cancer-research/

By Renee Chmiel, University of New Haven

Excerpt:

“I’d heard about people who suffered from Lyme disease and then received a breast cancer diagnosis soon after,” said Dr. Sapi, coordinator of the University’s graduate program in cellular and molecular biology.

When examining more than 400 invasive breast cancer tissues, they found that a significant number of samples were positive for Borrelia, suggesting that the bacteria may play a role in breast cancer development and metastasis.

Continued….

Carl Tuttle

Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH