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It wasn't Lyme. Kris Kirstofferson is a victim of quackery: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/08/kris-kristofferson-the-latest-celebrity-quackery-victim/

• capitainenemo 5y ago
  Hm. That blog post claims "chronic lyme disease does not exist" https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-evidence-persistent-lyme-infection-brain-despite-aggressive-antibiotic-therapy https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-evidence-persistent-l... I'm reading up on all this just now due to the HN front page articles, but these 2 seem to be in contradiction.
  • inter_netuser 5y ago
    Take a look: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/628045/fneur-12-628045-HTML/image_m/fneur-12-628045-g007.jpg https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/628045/fneur-12-6... These are spirochetes in the brain/spine of a dead patient who had proven lyme diagnosis in the past, and donated the brain for research. Full study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.628045/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.6280... The onus now on the "cOnSpIraCy" camp to provide scientific evidence to the contrary.