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A Significant Step Forward in Lyme Disease Research (Don’t Hold Your Breath)

https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/a-significant-step-forward-in-lyme-disease-research

A Significant Step Forward in Lyme Disease Research

The newly funded multidisciplinary Lyme disease program will improve patient care and seek new breakthroughs in early detection, treatment and prevention.

By Nancy Kilburn

11/27/23

Excerpts:

To address this public health challenge, Mass General is establishing a Multidisciplinary Lyme Disease Clinical Research Program. Made possible with the support of Phillip H. Morse, Vice Chairman of the Boston Red Sox, the program will bring together experts from infectious diseases, neurology, rheumatology and other departments across the hospital to provide more coordinated care for patients and advance research toward new treatments and methods for early detection and prevention.

In all, the Morse family’s transformational gift provides funding for an endowed chair — recently awarded to Dr. Steere — and the creation of a multidisciplinary clinic with a Lyme disease research program.

The Morse Endowed Chair in Medicine, the highest academic honor Mass General can give, provides Dr. Steere with flexible funding to pursue high-impact work. As Chair, Dr. Steere is launching the Lyme disease clinical research program, alongside Jacob Lemieux, MD, PhD, a leading physician-scientist who studies the genetics of Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses. “Jake represents the next generation of Lyme research and this gift will help us realize the vision of what they can accomplish in the future,” says Dr. Steere.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • One of the goals is that patients will receive “coordinated” care in one location.
  • The article erroneously states that a “small subset” of patients go on to suffer with persistent symptoms. (This myth must be destroyed or patients will never get the attention they deserve)
  • The article states patients are frustrated by the slow rate of progress in treating long-Lyme. (Ya think?!)
  • Regarding the NIH, research into persistent symptoms as been a “hard sell.” (This is the understatement of the year!)
  • Due to this FACT, research into persistent symptoms would not be possible without philanthropic support. (They fully admit that doing ANY research with government grants is a WASTE OF TIME.  Please remember this when you read about Lyme advocates clamoring for more government money/research. It is never yielded anything productive for patients and it never will unless the accepted narrative is replaced by reality)

It remains to be seen if this new interdisciplinary group is any different from the same-o-same-o of the past.  I’m not holding my breath.  The juggernaut of corrupt research institutions in academia as well as in ‘public health’ agencies is very real and only appears to be worsening.

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I think we have our answer about this already. I’d love to be wrong.

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Activism, Lyme, research, vaccines

The Not So Little Paper That Starts the ‘Vaccine’ War Promptly Retracted

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Dr. Boz Comes Clean For Recommending COVID Shots

The Biggest Crime in the History of Medicine

Dr. Annette Bozworth, a Florida internal medicine doctor with over a half million subscribers on Youtube, combs through the Mead analysis presented below. She nervously admits being wrong about recommending the gene therapy shots to all her patients and loved ones, which she herself got. Her fans have been writing in for over two years about their injuries and she admits she has been avoiding addressing it, but can no longer, and that they were right all along.

It’s quite obvious she had a difficult time swallowing the red pill & that she is now living with regret.

Hopefully, she will not do an about-face once she learns the highly read and cited peer-reviewed paper calling for a halt in the COVID shots has been retracted which violates COPE Guidelines.

The study authors intend to publish the study in an alternate journal.

Perhaps more doctors who urged their patients to get the clot shots who are now living with regret will be forthcoming.  After all, it is estimated that 17 MILLION globally have died after getting them.

Who will be brave enough to admit ‘The Emperor has no clothes on?’

Make sure and watch this short 11 minute video where Steve Kirsch also got 2 COVID shots for ‘extra’ protection, and ‘sold the whole narrative’ until he too had a red pill moment after he started hearing scores of horror stories of perfectly healthy people dying or having heart attacks shortly after getting the shots. Kirsch dove into VAERS data (which only has a 1% capture rate) proving these shots have caused more adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in history.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38274635/

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign

M Nathaniel Mead 1, Stephanie Seneff 2, Russ Wolfinger 3, Jessica Rose 4, Kris Denhaerynck 5, Steve Kirsch 6, Peter A McCullough 7 8 

Free PMC article

Abstract

Our understanding of COVID-19 vaccinations and their impact on health and mortality has evolved substantially since the first vaccine rollouts. Published reports from the original randomized phase 3 trials concluded that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could greatly reduce COVID-19 symptoms. In the interim, problems with the methods, execution, and reporting of these pivotal trials have emerged. Re-analysis of the Pfizer trial data identified statistically significant increases in serious adverse events (SAEs) in the vaccine group. Numerous SAEs were identified following the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), including death, cancer, cardiac events, and various autoimmune, hematological, reproductive, and neurological disorders. Furthermore, these products never underwent adequate safety and toxicological testing in accordance with previously established scientific standards. Among the other major topics addressed in this narrative review are the published analyses of serious harms to humans, quality control issues and process-related impurities, mechanisms underlying adverse events (AEs), the immunologic basis for vaccine inefficacy, and concerning mortality trends based on the registrational trial data. The risk-benefit imbalance substantiated by the evidence to date contraindicates further booster injections and suggests that, at a minimum, the mRNA injections should be removed from the childhood immunization program until proper safety and toxicological studies are conducted. Federal agency approval of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on a blanket-coverage population-wide basis had no support from an honest assessment of all relevant registrational data and commensurate consideration of risks versus benefits. Given the extensive, well-documented SAEs and unacceptably high harm-to-reward ratio, we urge governments to endorse a global moratorium on the modified mRNA products until all relevant questions pertaining to causality, residual DNA, and aberrant protein production are answered.

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**UPDATE**

I highly recommend watching immunologist Dr. Jessica Rose break down the 1.6 Million and counting adverse event reports in VAERS, showing definitive evidence of causality.  It is the most downloaded paper on Cureus with one of the highest SIQ scores, which is essentially a peer-review process after publishing, yet was promptly retracted even after going through the standard peer-review process and being published.

**Comment**

A doctor recently asked the all important question:  Is Any Vaccine Worth Getting?

The only way a person can truly answer this honestly is if they have the totality of the evidence.  We’ve been told repeatedly that vaccines are “safe and effective” and that we should simply believe despite the following inconvenient facts:

Here is a download of the various vaccines and their toxic ingredients. And here you can read about the nearly 400 adverse reactions listed in the package inserts.

The COVID shots are absent as they are gene therapy products acquired through Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with package inserts purposely left blank. The government made it illegal to obtain vials; however, some researchers have finally been able to study them and they found major contamination in all of them with toxic substances. Further, researchers have meticulously collected serious adverse events and have called for a global moratorium.

And don’t miss Dr. Trozzi’s1,000 peer-reviewed articleson COVID shot injuries.

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Activism, Heart Issues, vaccines, Viruses

Fraudulent Scientific Study Epidemic

For anyone in Lymeland, none of this should come as a shock. It is a perfect example of why Zooming with Congress for more Lyme funding is an absolute waste of time.  The Cabal has been designing flawed studies regarding Lyme/MSIDS for over 40 years by basing everything on known faulty 2-tiered testing and ‘classic’ symptoms which are not experienced by a majority of patients. Further, they simply ignore world-wide research showing pathogen resistance. COVID, once again, has pulled back the curtain to reveal the ugly world of bought-out science, science journals, government, and academia.

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Fraudulent Scientific Study Epidemic Destroying Credibility of Medical Research

The Hill

2/20/24

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point

The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point

Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned. Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic research jeopardised thanks to a global wave of sham science that is sweeping laboratories and universities.

Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud.  (See link for article)

“…..we lack a solid foundation of trustworthy findings. And it’s getting worse and worse.” ~ Professor Dorothy Bishop, Oxford University

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**Comment**

Bishop states that these sham papers are due to doctors and scientists seeking promotion and that shadow organizations known as “paper mills” fabricate work for publication in journals. Journal editors are bribed to accept articles and paper mills have embedded agents who publish false work.

She mainly blames China, but states it has spread to India, Russia, former Soviet Union states and eastern Europe.

The U.S. is hardly immune.

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Activism, research

CBD Under Siege: Take Action

https://anh-usa.org/cbd-under-siege/

CBD Under Siege

By ANH-USAOn 
CBD Under Siege

Years after the feds legalized hemp, the ax is still dangling over CBD supplements despite ongoing, exciting research into all of CBD’s health benefits. We need to protect access NOW! Action Alert!

THE TOPLINE

  • We’re only just beginning to scratch the surface on the benefits that CBD and other cannabinoids can have on our health, but the FDA is standing firm in its determination NOT to allow CBD in supplements.
  • Part of the reason we don’t know more about CBD’s effects is because federal law in the US made it almost impossible to study CBD and other cannabinoids before the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill.
  • Non-psychotropic cannabinoids like CBD work so well because they ‘speak’ to the billions of receptors of every cell of our bodies through the recently discovered endocannabinoid system.
  • The coming years will tell us even more about CBD’s potential to help us ward off many of the key conditions and diseases that afflict modern society—but it may be too late if we don’t take action to protect CBD supplements today.

We are only beginning to understand the array of benefits CBD and other cannabinoids can have on human health, but the FDA is trying to make sure that the only way we can get CBD is to be prescribed it as an FDA-approved drug—a drug listed at $32,500 a year. We cannot allow Big Pharma, in concert with the FDA, to threaten our access to this natural compound.

In hundreds of studies over the last few years, CBD—short for cannabidiol, one of the hundreds of cannabinoids found in the hemp and as well as a number of other plants—has shown promise in helping with pain, neurological disorders, insomnia, seizures, anxiety, stress, antibiotic-resistant infections, and inflammation, to name just a few. This diverse array of health benefits is due to the fact that CBD interacts with the human endocannabinoid system (ECS), an entire network of receptors throughout the body that was only discovered recently and is responsible for regulating mood, pain, and immune responses.

There’s no doubt that the agency wants to ban CBD when delivered in dietary supplements—so it can secure it, along with its many relatives, for control by Big Pharma. Last January the FDA released a statement explaining that the “existing regulatory framework” for foods and supplements are not appropriate for CBD and that a new regulatory pathway is needed. The agency also denied three Citizens Petitions requesting the agency issue a regulation that would allow CBD to be sold as a supplement.

The FDA has affirmed the illegality of CBD as a supplement in the warning letters it has been sending out to CBD and hemp companies, though the agency seems to be focusing its enforcement on companies making health claims about CBD and hemp.

The crux of the matter, of course, is that CBD has been approved as a drug to treat a rare form of epilepsy. If a natural compound is investigated as a drug before it is sold as a supplement, FDA rules dictate that the compound can no longer be sold as a supplement.

The FDA has also raised the issue of safety, claiming that CBD has the potential to harm the liver and the reproductive system, in addition to concerns for vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women. You can read our rebuttal to those safety concerns here.

This “back-channel” that turns natural compounds into drugs is a big problem that threatens many natural ingredients, but if CBD is turned into a monopoly drug it would be a tragedy.

First, we just don’t know the full range of health benefits CBD and other cannabinoids have because research has just started to pick up steam. Before the 2018 Farm Bill excluded hemp (cannabis plants with less than 0.3% THC) from the Controlled Substances Act, federal regulations made it extremely difficult to study any cannabinoids.

In a 2017 report on the health impacts of cannabis and cannabinoids, none other than the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that there “are specific regulatory barriers, including the classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance, that impede the advancement of cannabis and cannabinoid research.”

When the Farm Bill passed, the research floodgates opened. In PubMed, from 2018 to the present, you’ll find around 6,000 results when you search “CBD.” From 2017 to 1924, as far back in time as PubMed goes, there are 5,810 results when you search “CBD.” In six years, there were more studies on CBD than the previous century.

Because we’re playing catch-up on the research, we’ve only recently discovered the human ECS (endocannabinoid system), an entire network of receptors throughout the human body that plays a role in modulating our mood and how we feel, how we experience and respond to pain, how our immune system responds to threats, and much more. We evolved this system because we produce cannabinoids internally (endocannabinoids) especially when we in engage in moderate physical activity such as walking, cycling, swimming or engaging in others forms of rhythmic exercise. But we can expose our bodies to more still when we consume cannabinoids in some specific foods (exocannabinoids). Most of these cannabinoids, including CBD, are not psychoactive – THC being an exception – but they all offer profound benefits.

CBD and other cannabinoids interact with the ECS in a number of different ways, so it’s no wonder that research is finding CBD to have potential in such a wide variety of health conditions, exerting neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and analgesic effects. This could be a game-changer for some people. We recently covered the subject of inflammation and how chronic inflammation is the common denominator in many chronic diseases—yet inflammation is not something that is tracked by mainstream doctors.

As we continue to probe deeper into the effects of CBD and other cannabinoids on the ECS and beyond, we will likely learn even more about the host of positive health effects these natural compounds can have on the body. It would be contrary to the agency’s mission of promoting and protecting public health to put these health benefits out of reach for many people by banning CBD supplements.

Action Alert! Write to Congress in support of bills that allow the legal sale of CBD in supplements. Please send your message immediately.

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Activism, Supplements

Zooming With Congress For More Lyme Funding Which Will Yield Zilch for Patients

‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ usually attributed to Alfred Einstein

https://www.lymedisease.org/zooming-with-congress-fly-in/

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

2/22/24

Zooming with Congress for more Lyme funding

More than 380 Lyme disease advocates from 45 states put on their special green neck scarves and zoomed with congressional offices this week.

Their goal? To educate their elected representatives and urge them to increase federal funding for Lyme disease research.

This is the fifth year the Center for Lyme Action has sponsored the annual Lyme Fly-in, and the fourth year it’s been held virtually. Since the CLA formed in 2019, federal funding for Lyme disease has increased $282 million. (A good start, but much more is needed!)

The virtual Lyme Fly-In is also a chance for Lyme advocates to connect with each other–and spread the word on social media. Here are some of my favorite posts I found online: (Go to link for article)

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**Comment**

I’m all about educating.  That is rarely unfruitful unless your audience is so completely biased and/or corrupt that it refuses to entertain anything but a regurgitated narrative.  What is a waste of time is increasing government grant money for a highly polarized illness that hasn’t been dealt with properly since it was ‘discovered.’  Not sure when the memo will reach advocates, but it’s time to move on from this fruitless endeavor.

History has shown that the only forward progress in Lymeland has been from the hard work of independent researchers who are typically invested personally and who are driven and open-minded enough to find real answers.

The Senate rejected an inquiry into whether Lyme started in a Pentagon lab.  Do we really expect transparency from the very agencies that may be behind it all but refuse to be investigated?  Seriously?

Further, the old political debate over chronic/persistent infection has yet to be accepted in mainstream medicine and media – but is embraced by those who accept the world wide research and reality.  This fly in the proverbial ointment proves little has changed and funding the same agencies will yield nothing productive for patients.

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Activism, Lyme, research