u/SuburbanDad18

Ive read Stoner and Augustus and loved both of them. I have classic Dad taste. (Right now im reading The Power Broker and I,Claudius)

I do not comprehend the medical community’s dismissal towards the chronic infection hypothesis. Like why the fuck did borrelia evolve to create biofilms and round-body forms were it not to indefinitely persist in hosts? We’ve found it can persist in rhesus monkeys after antibiotics, but since we cant really check in the same way in humans, theres “no evidence” that it persists in us, and is thus very unlikely to be true. Am i the only one to whom this logic seems bizarre?

side rant The phrase “no evidence that” is very misleading. The phrase can be applied to two very different circumstances: 1) we checked and it was false 2) we havent checked yet.

So often when lyme comes up this phrase gets weaponized as the ultimate rebuttal. The speaker makes it sound like it’s (1) when it’s actually (2), and in general they dont seem to appreciate that there is even a distinction between the two cases. Presenting the evidence as so black and white does not reflect the true uncertainty surrounding the situation, and is frankly a very strange way of thinking about the world.