The book is “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby. A chronic Lyme sufferer herself, Newby documents how the U.S. military infected ticks with complex, hard-to-detect pathogens in the 1960s. The book’s linchpin is an interview with late scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who did the infecting and references an accidental release of weaponized ticks that might have ignited all of this.
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/communitychange/2019/05/30/lyme-disease-bitten-chris-smith/1212255001/
Here in Michigan I never saw ticks before 2010 and now they are everywhere in the state. Lyme disease came with them. I had never heard of it until the ticks suddenly appeared in MI. I didn't think about it much until now.
@metal-brain saidAccording to the Wikipedia page on lyme disease, Burgdorfer discovered the agent in 1981 [1], so they'd have a job making a weapon with it in the 1960s. Also it isn't that serious an infection in the short term, typically onset of symptoms takes a week to a fortnight and it's non-fatal, although the chronic effects are not fun to live with. Anthrax infection on the other hand can generate symptoms within a day and is fatal in 90% of cases where the spores are inhaled, 20% in cutaneous cases. So, it strikes me that it is unlikely that the US military would use lyme disease as a biological weapon, especially since they cannot have known what the disease agent was prior to 1981 and the disease was not described until 1975 [1].
The book is “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby. A chronic Lyme sufferer herself, Newby documents how the U.S. military infected ticks with complex, hard-to-detect pathogens in the 1960s. The book’s linchpin is an interview with late scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who did the infecting and ...[text shortened]... d never heard of it until the ticks suddenly appeared in MI. I didn't think about it much until now.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
Last paragraph of the introduction.
@metal-brain saidJust for kicks, MB, can you name three popular conspiracy theories about the US government's machinations that you don't believe?
The book is “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby. A chronic Lyme sufferer herself, Newby documents how the U.S. military infected ticks with complex, hard-to-detect pathogens in the 1960s. The book’s linchpin is an interview with late scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who did the infecting and ...[text shortened]... d never heard of it until the ticks suddenly appeared in MI. I didn't think about it much until now.
@kazetnagorra saidYou are such a dope. Google is doing it and you were distracted by your conspiracy theory about Russia, who exposed election interference in the DNC. DW Schultz was forced to resign. Thank you Russia!
Typically, conspiracy theorists don't believe conspiracies that actually happened, e.g. collusion with the Kremlin.
The people who are the most condescending to conspiracy theorists are conspiracy theorists themselves. Russia collusion with Trump is a conspiracy theory.
They are secretly ashamed of their embracing their Russia conspiracy theory so they project their self shame onto others. Kind of like a homosexual in denial of it so he proved to himself he isn't the shameful gay his parents taught him to be by beating up a gay guy. Frontline had a program about it. True story.
The US meddles in more foreign elections than anybody. Then there is Google already being sued for 50 million for it by Gabbard right here in the USA.
@metal-brain saidElection interference by the DNC. Right.
You are such a dope. Google is doing it and you were distracted by your conspiracy theory about Russia, who exposed election interference in the DNC. DW Schultz was forced to resign. Thank you Russia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8A2kzeEqGA
Good one. Typical Republican thinking.
Calling everything by its opposite.
Is that pedophile ring still in the back room at Comet Pizza?
@metal-brain saidYou're easily either the most stupid or the most gullible person on this site, and very possibly both.
The people who are the most condescending to conspiracy theorists are conspiracy theorists themselves. Russia collusion with Trump is a conspiracy theory.
They are secretly ashamed of their embracing their Russia conspiracy theory so they project their self shame onto others. Kind of like a homosexual in denial of it so he proved to himself he isn't the shameful gay hi ...[text shortened]... ody. Then there is Google already being sued for 50 million for it by Gabbard right here in the USA.
You keep doing you, though. I'm sure your idiotic threads must entertain someone, somewhere.