Kris Newby
Auteur van Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
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Kris Newby is an award-winning science writer at Stanford University and the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary Under Our Skin, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was a 2010 Oscar semifinalist. Previously, Newby was a technology writer for Apple and other Silicon Valley toon meer companies. She lives in Palo Alto. toon minder
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"There's no such thing as a clean tick." -Willy Burgdorfer, as quoted on p 165
This book has a fascinating premise - author Newby suggests that the Lyme disease epidemic began with a military bioweapons experiment gone wrong.
The book was a very quick and easy read - unfortunately, I didn't learn very much. Even though Newby includes plenty of science, the book still felt very "fluffy" to me - there really weren't any definitive conclusions, just a lot of speculation and questions. Despite the subtitle, she seemed to spend more time talking about rickettsias than borrelia, the microbe that is believed to cause Lyme disease. Also, though not surprising at all, it made me sigh to read that she accepts the evolutionary theory as fact.
It was interesting, for the most part, but not nearly as "complete" as I was hoping for.
"[Lyme disease] was the first major new disease discovered after the Bayh-Dole Act and the Diamond v. Chakrabarty Supreme Court decision made it possible for the NIH, the CDC, and universities to patent and profit from 'ownership' of live organisms... All of a sudden, the institutions that were supposed to be protectors of public health became business partners with Big Pharma." pp 229-230
"My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA [Infectious Diseases Society of America] panelists. The IDSA's guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science." -Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal (now a senator), in a 2008 antitrust settlement press release, as quoted on p 121… (meer)