The Lymeland Emperor Has No Clothes On

March 4, 2025

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33299384?

The emperor has no clothes!

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Mar 3, 2025

Please see the following inquiry that will most likely go unanswered. Note that Dr. John Aucott is a coauthor of this study who often says he believes in chronic Lyme disease but only at Lyme disease events held by advocacy groups. 

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “aghirsch@geisinger.edu” <aghirsch@geisinger.edu>
Cc: “aejustice1@geisinger.edu” <aejustice1@geisinger.edu>, “cmnordberg@geisinger.edu” <cmnordberg@geisinger.edu>, “nsjosyula@geisinger.edu” <nsjosyula@geisinger.edu>, “jaucott@jhmi.edu” <jaucott@jhmi.edu>, “alison.rebman@gmail.com” <alison.rebman@gmail.com>, “bschwar1@jhu.edu” <bschwar1@jhu.edu>, “bmcinfectiousdiseases@biomedcentral.com” <bmcinfectiousdiseases@biomedcentral.com>, “irina.masalagiu@springernature.com” <irina.masalagiu@springernature.com>, “rauf.bhat@springernature.com” <rauf.bhat@springernature.com>
Date: 03/01/2025 12:04 PM EST

Subject: A comparison of genome-wide association analyses of persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome

A comparison of genome-wide association analyses of persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-024-10238-x

Annemarie G. Hirsch, Anne E. Justice, Amy Poissant, Cara M. Nordberg, Navya S. Josyula, John Aucott, Alison W. Rebman & Brian S. Schwartz

To: Annemarie G. Hirsch, Corresponding Author

I read your manuscript with great interest and wanted to share a comment on your article I received from a fellow researcher who has experienced first-hand the devastation of Lyme disease. I added HTML links (references) to his statement and included my own comment. Additionally, I have a question for you and your co-authors.

Comment received:

“With respect may I say as Lyme and PTLD victim, Borrelia has the following characteristics:

Or, maybe it’s as the authors claim that PTLD is associated with:

“Our top index single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs77857587, is in high linkage disequilibrium with a long-range protein quantitative locus SNP, rs111774530, for the MARC2 (Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 2) protein.”

Carl Tuttle’s comment:

If I’m interpreting his comment correctly, it would appear that we have been dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug and essentially, “the emperor has no clothes.”

Question:

What academic discipline would you encounter if your department acknowledged chronic Lyme disease and began focusing on finding effective antimicrobial treatments for all borrelia forms; round body, biofilm etc.?

A response to this inquiry is requested.

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH

Cc: Rauf Bhat, Senior Editor

Stefan Baral, Senior Editorial Board Member

Letter to the Editor of the BMJ published June 2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

(It should be noted that the corresponding author refused to reply after repeated requests by BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee)

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