Chuck Bryant
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But there's a big difference between him saying this thing's called the Bergdorferi bacteria and somebody saying we're going to name this after you.
No, I totally agree.
So, Bergdorfer, he figures out what is the basis of Lyme disease, which is great.
That's an enormous breakthrough.
It establishes that, yes, it is its own thing.
It's its own disease.
And because it was a bacteria, it's a spirochete, which, again, it's kind of a snake-like shaped bacteria, a specific kind that walks like a slinky.
Because it was a bacterial infection, the medical establishment said, oh, we got this here.
Take some antibiotics.
And over, you know, the course of several years, starting in I think the 90s is when they really started to say, okay, we can cure Lyme disease, especially if we catch it early on, by a two- to four-week round of antibiotics.
And they said, case closed.
We're the medical establishment.
Let's go have a party for ourselves.