Antiscience and ethical concerns associated with advocacy of Lyme disease.

摘要: Advocacy for Lyme disease has become an increasingly important part of antiscience movement that denies both the viral cause AIDS and benefits vaccines supports unproven (sometimes dangerous) alternative medical treatments. Some activists portray disease, a geographically limited tick-borne infection, as is insidious, ubiquitous, difficult to diagnose, almost incurable; they also propose causes mainly non-specific symptoms can be treated only with long-term antibiotics other unorthodox unvalidated Similar groups, these advocates have created pseudoscientific selection practitioners, research, publications coordinated public protests, accused opponents corruption conspiracy, spurred legislative efforts subvert evidence-based medicine peer-reviewed science. The relations actions some activists, commercial bodies involved in advocacy pose threat health.