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Study Links Surge in Children’s Memory Problems to Radiation Exposure

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-memory-problems-surge-wireless-radiation-exposure-study/

Study Links Surge in Children’s Memory Problems to Wireless Radiation Exposure

Children and teens in Sweden and Norway are experiencing an “alarming” rise in memory problems, according to the authors of a new peer-reviewed study that linked the issue to increased exposure to wireless radiation. “Radiation exposure must be reduced, and people must be informed about the associated health risks,” one of the study’s authors said.

boy and cell tower

Children and teens in Sweden and Norway are experiencing an “alarming” rise in memory problems, which the authors of a new peer-reviewed study attributed to increased exposure to wireless radiation.

“The steep increase in memory issues cannot be explained by changes in diagnostic criteria or reporting to the registries alone,” Lennart Hardell, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study’s authors, said in a press release. He added:

“We urge our findings on increasing numbers of children having impaired memory to be taken seriously by public health authorities and consider children’s increasing exposure to wireless radiation as a possible cause.

“Thus, we ask for measures aimed at decreasing exposure to RF radiation [radiofrequency radiation] to protect the brain and general health of children.”

The study was published this month in the Archives of Clinical and Biomedical Research.

Hardell, an oncologist and epidemiologist with the Environment and Cancer Research Foundation, has authored more than 350 papers, nearly 60 of which address RF radiation. He is also one of the first researchers to publish reports on the toxicity of Agent Orange.

Hardell and lead study author Mona Nilsson, co-founder and director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, examined national health data in Sweden and Norway and found that the number of medical consultations for memory disturbances in Norwegian children ages 5-19 increased roughly 8.5-fold from 2006 to 2024.

In Sweden, the number of children ages 5-19 diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment — a diagnosis that includes memory problems — increased nearly 60-fold from 2010 to 2024.

“The findings must be taken seriously and evaluated,” Hardell told The Defender. “Action must be taken to reduce children’s overall exposure — especially in schools.”

Nilsson agreed. “These alarming trends must be reversed — radiation exposure must be reduced, and people must be informed about the associated health risks,” she said.

Authors link memory problems to wireless radiation

The authors argued in their report that wireless radiation is a leading cause of memory decline in children.

They cited numerous epidemiological and experimental studies showing that very low levels of RF radiation can negatively affect the brain — particularly the hippocampus, which plays a central role in memory and learning.

“There is abundant evidence [dating back] several decades, both on animals and humans, that RF radiation impairs memory,” Nilsson said. “The trends we are observing coincide closely in time with the sharply increasing exposure of children and adolescents to RF radiation.”

Wireless exposure has escalated in the last decade due to the increasing use of cellphones, wireless headsets, Wi-Fi and 5G, Hardell said.

“Other contributing factors can, of course, not be excluded,” he said. “They must, however, be defined and not based on hypothetical discussion.”

New investigation targets ‘biased’ European report on RF radiation

The new study coincides with the European Ombudsman investigation into how the European Commission handled a key report that found no “moderate or strong” evidence linking adverse health effects to chronic or acute RF radiation exposure from existing wireless technologies.

The European Ombudsman, who “investigates complaints about maladministration by EU [European Union] institutions and bodies,” will question the European Commission on how it chose the experts to write the report, said Sophie Pelletier, president of PRIARTEM/Electrosensibles de France, in an Oct. 22 press release.

The report, called the SCHEER Opinion, was adopted in April 2023 by the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER).

The SCHEER Opinion was “clearly biased,” according to an October 2023 critique published by the Council for Safe Telecommunications in Denmark and the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation.

The investigation stems from a complaint filed by several European nonprofits, including the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, alleging that the authors of the SCHEER Opinion had conflicts of interest due to industry ties or industry-funded research.

The nonprofits also claimed that the European Commission excluded experts critical of wireless radiation’s possible health effects from the report’s working group and that the report authors ignored peer-reviewed studies showing harmful effects from exposure below current limits.

In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not updated its RF radiation exposure limits since 1996 and bases them largely on a few small sample studies conducted in the 1970s and 1980s.

The FCC has not yet complied with a 2021 court-ordered mandate to explain how it determined that its current guidelines adequately protect humans and the environment from the harmful effects of RF radiation exposure.

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**Comment**

Houston, we have a real problem…..

Please also read, “Wired for Harm: The Biological and Spiritual Costs of Wireless Radiation.”

For more:

Bacterial ‘Fingerprints’ Found on COVID ‘Vaccine’ DNA Contamination

https://slaynews.com/news/bacterial-fingerprints-found-covid-vaccine-dna-contamination/

Bacterial ‘Fingerprints’ Found on Covid ‘Vaccine’ DNA Contamination

A groundbreaking new analysis has uncovered evidence that Pfizer’s Covid mRNA shots may have contained bacterial DNA fragments with dangerous immune-activating signatures.

The discovery is raising urgent questions about how regulators ever allowed the injections to reach the public.

The findings were revealed in a preprint published by molecular biologist Kevin McKernan.

McKernan used advanced Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology to analyze a Pfizer vaccine lot (FL8095).

His results revealed:

  • Bacterial-style DNA methylation marks (m6A), a fingerprint of contamination from E. coli–derived DNA.
  • Evidence of incomplete linearization, meaning the DNA used to manufacture the shots may not have been fully processed, leaving behind problematic fragments.
  • Signals that the contamination could, in theory, trigger powerful immune responses, potentially leading to harmful side effects.

These findings raise serious questions about the integrity of the health regulatory process during the declared COVID-19 pandemic.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Science show such fragments can set off inflammation and cytokine storms.

So far, the clot shot contains:

FL Governor Slams Proposal to Engineer Meat Allergies in Humans to ‘Save the Planet’

UPDATE:  The news feed is filled with how Bill Gates is changing his tune on climate change.

He’s not.

He’s just reframing the argument to appear less monstrous, but, don’t be fooled.  He’s still the same monster.

Case in point: He still feels the planet is too populated, and is putting his money toward that end.  Gates worked with USAID for nearly 25 years. The corrupt and colossally wasteful USAID is also involved in a sterilization scandal.

Here’s what this looks like:

Bill Gates + USAID = sterilization.

According to Dr. Hoffe, vaccines have been used at least five times (Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and India) in the past to reduce fertility.

But, there’s more:

http://  Approx. 12 Min

Gates’ New Plan to Jab the Cows

10/31/25

This frightening injection for cows and scary additives for their food is to curb the methane they produce.  All for profit of course – Gates’ profit.  Just when we hoped Gates would disappear from our sight, he’s back with more schemes for our food.  He just had a secret meeting with President Trump and then came back two weeks later for another.  Something monstrous is definitely brewing in the kitchen.

Gates has his fingers in so many pies it’s hard to keep them all straight.  The many pies include, but aren’t limited to:

Bill Gates is everywhere, affecting everything, but he’s no philanthropist.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/florida-governor-desantis-slams-red-meat-allergy-ticks-human-geoengineering/

Florida Governor Slams Proposal to Engineer Meat Allergies in Humans to ‘Save the Planet’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized a bioethicist’s video suggesting humans could be engineered to develop a red meat allergy, linking the idea to the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization. “Genetically engineering humans to become allergic to meat because some elites think people eat ‘too much’ of it is insane,” DeSantis wrote.

tick and burger

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week publicly rejected the notion that humans could be engineered to develop a red meat allergy as a way to curb meat consumption and protect the environment — an idea he linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

On X, DeSantis posted a 2016 video of Matthew Liao, a professor of bioethics at New York University and director of its Center for Bioethics. Liao tells his audience that ticks could be used to spread allergies that make humans unable to tolerate red meat — an idea that has been repeated by other bioethicists.

“People eat too much meat. And if they were to cut down on their consumption of meat, then it would actually really help the planet,” Liao said in the video. “There’s this thing called the lone star tick, where if it bites you, you will become allergic to meat. So, that’s something we can do through human engineering.”

DeSantis said Liao’s statements are “an example of why entities like the WEF and WHO are persona non grata” in Florida.

“Genetically engineering humans to become allergic to meat because some elites think people eat ‘too much’ of it is insane,” DeSantis wrote.

Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, said that while Liao’s comments were not new — the video is from an almost 10-year-old talk at the World Science Festival — DeSantis’ remarks were significant.

“Although he’s slow to the game, at least he’s noticing,” Hinchliffe said.

Liao “has been talking about making people allergic to meat for over a decade, going back to his TED Talk 12 years ago, in 2013,” Hinchliffe said.

During that talk, Liao said, “Just as some people are naturally intolerant to milk or crayfish, like myself, we could artificially induce mild intolerance to meat by stimulating our immune system against common bovine proteins.”

Sayer Ji, chairman of the Global Wellness Forum and founder of GreenMedInfo, said DeSantis is “right to call out the WEF’s agenda targeting meat consumption.”

“This isn’t dietary advice — it’s social engineering,” Ji said. “Unelected global organizations have no business dictating what free people eat, especially when they’re demonizing traditional foods that have sustained human health for millennia.”

In a follow-up X post Friday, DeSantis questioned widespread claims that cattle and their carbon footprint harm the environment. “The notion that cattle are destroying the planet has always been ridiculous,” he wrote.

Kendall Mackintosh, a board-certified nutrition specialist, said such claims aren’t “just about climate,” but are also centered around “control and consolidation.”

“Real, regenerative farming supports independence and local economies. Centralizing food systems through synthetic or lab-grown products benefits corporations, not families,” Mackintosh said.

Ji agreed. He said such proposals are indicative of “the merger of biotechnology and behavioral control.” He added:

“The war on meat has never been about climate. It’s about controlconsolidating food production under centralized, patented, technology-dependent systems.

“Meat represents everything the global technocracy fears: decentralized production, nutritional independence and cultural traditions that resist standardization. When people can raise their own food, they’re harder to control. The WEF understands this perfectly.”

Recent paper suggests spreading meat allergy to humans is a moral obligation

A paper published earlier this month in the journal Bioethics proposed using the lone star tick to spread alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), “a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy.”

In the paper, Western Michigan University bioethics professors Parker Crutchfield, Ph.D., and Blake Hereth, Ph.D., argued that “if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), when it bites, the lone star tick transmits the alpha-gal sugar molecule into the human bloodstream, leading to a red meat allergy. Consuming red meat after being infected could result in life-threatening anaphylaxis.

The paper’s authors present what they called the “Convergence Argument.” If a specific action “prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, and promotes virtuous action or character,” then it becomes a moral obligation to perform this action, they said.

According to the authors, the use of AGS to spread a red meat allergy to humans meets these criteria. However, they acknowledged ethical obstacles: few people would likely volunteer for the tick bite, and forcing it on people would raise questions of bodily autonomy and freedom.

The authors told The College Fix in an August email that their paper does not constitute an endorsement of spreading AGS to humans, but offers a hypothetical framework raising ethical and philosophical questions.

Mackintosh questioned this denial. “Calling it a ‘thought experiment’ doesn’t make it any less disturbing. The idea that inducing an allergy or harming human health could somehow serve a moral purpose shows just how far detached some parts of academia have become from basic human ethics,” she said.

“The fact that this was even published tells you how normalized these anti-human, anti-food narratives are becoming under the guise of ‘ethics,’” Mackintosh added.

Ji said the paper raises questions about bodily autonomy.

“This is about far more than food, it’s about whether human beings retain sovereignty over their own bodies, or whether that sovereignty can be overridden by those who believe they know better. The answer to that question will determine whether we remain free,” he said.

Mackintosh questioned the authors’ claim that lone star tick bites “only” lead to AGS.

AGS “can cause severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, and can completely alter someone’s diet and quality of life,” Mackintosh said. “The suggestion of using ticks or any biological vector to intentionally spread an allergy is beyond unethical. It’s dangerous, unpredictable and medically reckless.”

A 2023 CDC report said AGS cases were on the rise in the U.S.

DeSantis previously outlawed sale of lab-grown meat in Florida

While DeSantis didn’t directly address the paper or AGS in his X posts, he has consistently spoken out against efforts to shift people away from red meat and toward alternatives such as lab-grown meat and insects.

Last year, DeSantis signed legislation prohibiting the sale of lab-grown meat in Florida. According to a press release, the law aims “to stop the World Economic Forum’s goal of forcing the world to eat lab-grown meat and insects,” which a 2021 WEF article characterized as an “overlooked” source of protein.”

“Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” DeSantis said at the time.

DeSantis has previously questioned other WEF and WHO policies, saying they are unwelcome in Florida.

Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., a psychotherapist who sued DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to prohibit mRNA vaccines in Florida, said that while he has been “litigating against DeSantis for over a year and a half to stop mRNA injections,” he agrees with DeSantis on this issue.

“DeSantis is calling out something that many Americans feel — they don’t want global organizations or unelected bodies deciding what they can or can’t eat,” Sansone said.

Mackintosh said lab-grown meat raises questions about potential health risks.

“There are questions about contamination risks, the use of antibiotics or growth media, nutrient content, and even the true environmental impact once scaled up. It’s also ultra-processed — far from the whole, nutrient-dense foods our bodies were designed to thrive on,” she said.

“Many lab-grown meat companies are using immortalized cell lines — cells that are capable of continuously dividing and growing in a manner disturbingly similar to cancer cells,” Ji said. There is a “complete absence of long-term safety studies” for such products.

Scientists have raised similar concerns about human consumption of insects. The exoskeletons of many insects contain chitin, a natural material that can trigger an allergic reaction in humans. Some studies suggest that humans cannot digest chitin, while other studies suggest humans “don’t digest it well.”

WEF suggests consuming alternative meats will ‘save the planet’

The WEF has repeatedly promoted reducing the consumption of red meat and animal products.

In a 2019 video, the WEF suggested that in the not-too-distant future, humans would be allowed to consume only “one beef burger, two portions of fish and one or two eggs per week” to “save the planet.”

That year, the WEF published a white paper calling for “a transformation in the global system for protein provision” to meet climate-related targets.

Also in 2019, the WEF published an article stating that humans will be “eating replacement meats within 20 years.” A 2020 WEF article said there were “promising” signs that humans will begin consuming lab-grown meats. A 2022 WEF article said lab-grown meat “almost entirely eliminates the need to farm animals for food.”

Mackintosh said corporate interests are behind the push for “alternative” meats.

“The biggest winners in the lab-grown meat push are large food conglomerates, biotech companies and venture capital investors who own the patents and production technology. Small farmers and ranchers — the backbone of our food system — lose. This is about creating dependence, not sustainability,” she said.

Ji agreed. “Follow the money. Biotech corporations and their investors stand to profit massively from patents and market control,” he said.

In 2019, Bill Gates invested in Beyond Meat, an alternative meat producer. In his 2021 book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” Gates said stopping climate change requires a shift in human behavior, including a switch to synthetic meats. He later suggested that wealthy countries should switch to “100% synthetic beef.”

Beyond Meat’s stock price recently cratered, dropping from an all-time high of $240 to less than $1 amid low consumer demand in the U.S.

Liao suggested chemically inducing empathy, making kids smaller

DeSantis and others have suggested a link between Liao and the WEF, including a claim that Liao’s 2012 co-authored paper, “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” which argued that “human engineering deserves further consideration in the debate about climate change,” was the subject of a discussion at the WEF’s 2021 annual meeting.

At present, the only mention of Liao on the WEF’s website is in connection to a paper he co-published last month proposing “a structured approach” to the governance of artificial intelligence.

Hinchliffe noted that the WEF “does have a habit of scrubbing what it considers to be negative publicity from its website.” However, whether or not there is a direct connection between Liao and the WEF, Liao “is definitely aligned” with WEF policies, he said.

Liao previously suggested how humans could change their bodies to fight climate change. These include the “pharmacological induction of empathy,” which involves taking a pill to induce empathy; “cognitive enhancements” so that humans have fewer childrenmemory modification; and administering hormones to children so that they remain smaller in size because “being smaller is environmentally friendly.”

Ji said:

“Academic papers proposing disease vectors to manipulate behavior aren’t harmless philosophy — they’re rehearsals. They move the Overton window, normalize the abnormal and provide intellectual scaffolding for future atrocities. The field of bioethics has become less about protecting human dignity and more about rationalizing its violation.”

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**Comment**

Yet another article that should scare the bejeebers out of you.

For more:

ACTION: Retract Deplorable Lyme Disease CME Which Ignores Persistent Bb Part 2

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/34014349?cs_tk=A8-

Medscape Now! Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Part2)

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Oct 28, 2025

Follow-up email to Adrian Duncan, Group Vice President, Global Head of Education & Medical Affairs at WebMD.

First email can be found here.

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “aduncan@webmd.net” <aduncan@webmd.net>
Cc: “cme@medscape.net” <cme@medscape.net>, “caitlin@medlitera.com” <caitlin@medlitera.com>, “naseem@medlitera.com” <naseem@medlitera.com>, “michelle@medlitera.com” <michelle@medlitera.com>
Date: 10/28/2025 9:28 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Medscape Now! Understanding the Latest Evidence and Best Practices for Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Dear Mr. Duncan,

In 2016 Dr. Paul Auwaerter, past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America coauthored a study revealing the persister form of Borrelia burgdorferi resistant to antibiotics.

Here is a timeline of events:

2015

Standard antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease does not kill persistent Borrelia bacteria.
http://droopyyoupi.blogspot.com/2015/08/standart-antibiotic-treatment-for-lyme.html

Excerpt:

What has tuberculosis and Borrelia burgdorferi in common? In the late stage of the disease occurs persistent (tolerant) bacteria, which essentially means that the bacteria lasts and lasts and lasts. They protect themselves against antibiotics and are difficult to treat.

Both Borrelia burgdorferi and tuberculosis is relatively easy to cure in the early stages, even with the use of one antibiotic. In the late stage it is impossible to cure the disease with the same type of treatment in the acute phase, said Dr. Ying Zhang when he visited the year NorVect conference.

-Dr. Ying Zhang is a professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Two days after NorVect conference, published Dr. Ying Zhang’s latest research Identification of new compounds with high activity against stationary phase Borrelia burgdorferi from the NCI compound collection.

2016

A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library
Jie Feng 1, Wanliang Shi 1, Shuo Zhang 1, David Sullivan 1, Paul G Auwaerter 2, Ying Zhang 1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27242757/

Abstract

Under experimental stress conditions such as starvation or antibiotic exposure, Borrelia burgdorferi can develop round body forms, which are a type of persister bacteria that appear resistant in vitro to customary first-line antibiotics for Lyme disease. To identify more effective drugs with activity against the round body form of B. burgdorferi, we established a round body persister model induced by exposure to amoxicillin (50 μg/ml) and then screened the Food and Drug Administration drug library consisting of 1581 drug compounds and also 22 drug combinations using the SYBR Green I/propidium iodide viability assay. We identified 23 drug candidates that have higher activity against the round bodies of B. burgdorferi than either amoxicillin or doxycycline.

2022

Nitroxoline Drug Combinations Are More Active Than Lyme Antibiotic Combination and Can Eradicate Stationary-Phase Borrelia burgdorferi
Alvarez-Manzo, Hector S.1; Zhang, Yumin1; Zhang, Ying2,✉
https://journals.lww.com/imd/fulltext/2022/09000/nitroxoline_drug_combinations_are_more_active_than.7.aspx

Abstract

Lyme disease (LD), caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and Europe. Despite the standard 2–4 weeks’ antibiotic treatment, approximately 10%–20% of patients will develop post treatment LD syndrome, a condition that is poorly understood. One of the probable causes is thought to be the presence of B. burgdorferi persister forms that are not effectively killed by the current LD antibiotics. In this study, we evaluated nitroxoline, an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections, for its activity against a stationary-phase culture enriched with persister forms of B. burgdorferi. Nitroxoline was found to be more active than doxycycline and equally active as cefuroxime (standard LD antibiotics) against B. burgdorferi. Importantly, the nitroxoline two-drug combinations nitroxoline + cefuroxime and nitroxoline + clarithromycin, as well as the nitroxoline three-drug combination nitroxoline + cefuroxime + clarithromycin, were as effective as the persister drug daptomycin-based positive control three-drug combination cefuroxime + doxycycline + daptomycin, completely eradicating stationary-phase B. burgdorferi in the drug-exposure experiments and preventing regrowth in the subculture study. Future studies should evaluate these promising drug combinations in a persistent LD mouse model.
 
Mr. Duncan…. This is the missing research that should have been conducted early in the discovery phase of the disease but as we now know, all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket while a campaign was orchestrated to discredit the sick and disabled patient population along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients. What has been deceitfully established here in the US is wreaking havoc globally. Example: Lyme disease: Australians ‘being treated worse than a dog riddled with mange’, Senator John Madigan says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-11/lyme-disease-treatment-in-australia-criticised-by-john-madigan/7080708

This research is being suppressed as the disabled Lyme patient population around the globe remain sick indefinitely. (Three decades and counting)

Carl Tuttle

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**Comment**

We should all be eternally grateful for Lyme patient and advocate Carl Tuttle who is like a dog with a bone when it comes to relentlessly fighting for patients.  His letter makes numerous salient points completely ignored by the medical machine which runs on ‘consensus’ based medicine auto-pilot, where doctors are nothing more than automatons and where AI is more likely to diagnose patients than doctors.

In part one he calls on patients to write letters to Adrian Duncan of Medscape/WebMD.  The medical machine needs to hear from people who live this experience.  For ideas, feel free to read the letter I wrote back in 2020 to the TBDWG which I adapted for the Medscape letter. Use your own experience and ask him to retract this harmful CME course for doctors which only entrenches the false narrative of Lyme/MSIDS.

ACTION: Retract Deplorable Lyme Disease CME

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/34006713?

Medscape Now! Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Oct 25, 2025

What was deceitfully established here in the US has been propagated worldwide as signatures for this petition are coming in from 21 countries!

Let’s put our numbers to work. Consider writing an email to Adrian Duncan of Medscape/WebMD referencing this Update and demand a retraction of this deplorable and misleading CME directed to the medical community. 

Change.org Petition Update (106,796 Signatures)
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/34006713

Medscape Now! Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Adrian Duncan, Group Vice President
Global Head of Education & Medical Affairs

aduncan@webmd.net

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “aduncan@webmd.net” <aduncan@webmd.net>
Cc: “cme@medscape.net” <cme@medscape.net>, “caitlin@medlitera.com” <caitlin@medlitera.com>, “naseem@medlitera.com” <naseem@medlitera.com>, “michelle@medlitera.com” <michelle@medlitera.com>

Date: 10/24/2025 12:42 PM EDT
Subject: Medscape Now! Understanding the Latest Evidence and Best Practices for Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Medscape Now! Understanding the Latest Evidence and Best Practices for Interprofessional Care of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/medscape-now-understanding-latest-evidence-and-best-2025a1000rrr
CME Author: Naseem Bazargan, MPH     Developed with AI assistance.

Excerpt:

State of the Evidence

“To date, our understanding of the pathophysiology of Lyme IACI remains limited,[4] with little to no evidence supporting chronic Borrelia infection as the underlying cause.”

Adrian Duncan, Group Vice President
Global Head of Education & Medical Affairs

Dear Mr. Duncan,

In reference to the Medscape article written by Naseem Bazargan, I asked Google’s Gemini AI the following questions:

The latest Medscape CME education claiming to be developed with AI assistance, appears to have omitted the following references:

  • 2018 Middelveen study; “Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease” identifying twelve patients who were culture positive after antibiotic treatment. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics. Also missing is the NIH funded Embers studies of persistent Bb infection in monkeys and mice. And the Sapi study: “The Long-Term Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi Antigens and DNA in the Tissues of a Patient with Lyme Disease”  Here is the positive culture report from the CDC at Fort Collins Colorado and the chronic Lyme autopsy results from the patient in the Sapi study: Page 1234567. The destructive nature of Borrelia is evident in the patient’s liver (nutmeg liver), kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. The patient died after the insurer refused additional IV antibiotic therapy.
  • Additional reference from 1990: “Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease” Dr. Allen Steere
  • In fact, there appears to be 700 references identifying persistent infection. 

Question: So, is AI participating in the collusion to suppress evidence of antibiotic resistance or chronic Lyme disease? And what about the other 700 references identifying persistent infection?

Mr. Duncan…  I will spare you the lengthy discourse and get right to the point.

Questions to AI:

1. Does a chronic relapsing seronegative disease fit the vaccine model?

AI Response:

A chronic, relapsing, seronegative disease does not fit the traditional vaccine model, which is primarily designed to prevent initial infections. The characteristics you describe present significant scientific and commercial challenges for vaccine developers.

2. Since you agreed that a chronic, relapsing, seronegative disease does not fit the traditional vaccine model this in and of itself would be the motivation to conceal any and all evidence of persistent infection wouldn’t you agree? This so-called debate is not a debate at all and deserves a criminal investigation. Who would be a suitable candidate to approach for a legal case?

AI Response: Allegations of medical fraud are typically handled as civil matters, but they can become criminal if there is evidence of gross negligence, recklessness, or intent to deceive, especially for financial gain.

Mr. Duncan,

Thirty-four years ago Dr. Allen Steere identified chronic Lyme disease which should have set off a red flag prompting an immediate search for better antimicrobials but then did a 180° as he became principal investigator (PI) of the Phase 3 clinical trial for the first Lyme disease vaccine. So all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket while a campaign was orchestrated to discredit the sick and disabled patient population along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients. Apparently, a chronic relapsing seronegative disease did not fit the business model of patent royalties, vaccine development and pharmaceutical profits. This set the stage for long-term treatment denial and unimaginable pain and suffering around the world. It has been ongoing for over three decades now and the latest CME from Medscape is propagating this travesty.

Lyme disease has been grossly mishandled by our public health officials for the sake of a vaccine. A false public health narrative was enforced and any clinician who did not follow that narrative risked losing their license to practice medicine as seen in the documentary: Under our Skin. (please watch the 5min trailer)

I want to make this crystal clear; suppressing evidence of antibiotic resistance is not collaboration, it is collusion. Will you turn a blind eye to the facts/evidence I have presented?

A response to this inquiry is requested.

Respectfully submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH USA

Additional references:

Evidence Of Persistence Of Lyme Disease In Humans
https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/resources/evidence-of-persistence-lyme-disease-in-humans/

Go here to sign Tuttle’s petition:  https://c.org/sffxsgXrdJ

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