Revolving Door
The NIH Lyme disease program.
We recently reviewed the NIH web pages on Lyme disease. While not as biased as the IDSA treatment guidelines, they still overstate much and spin the interpretation of clinical trials and other research questions.
Past Lyme disease program directors at the NIH have been so extreme in their positions that they have finally gotten the federal government’s equivalent of the boot, meaning they were told to sit at their desk and do nothing. The last holder of the post, Philip J. Baker, recently moved from his government job to executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting commercial medical establishment opinions on Lyme disease. He also just wrote a public relations piece promoting biased and unsubstantiated positions on Lyme disease. So just how were federal funds spent on Lyme research during his tenure?
We wish the new Lyme Borreliosis and Related Diseases Program Director, Joseph J. Breen, great success in increasing our understanding of borreliosis.
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