Chuck Bryant

You put two and two together.

That's the impression I have is that she didn't actually come out and say it, but that she lets the reader surmise for themselves, which is the problem.

Well, I mean, that's very easy to disprove if she's actually claiming that they created Lyme disease because we just got through saying it was in – who was the mummy?

Utsi.

It was in Utsi 5,300 years ago.

Over in the Alps.

Well, true.

But also in the United States.

I mean, it came around in the—we first discovered it in the 1970s in, like, several different places.

It wasn't just Lyme, Connecticut.

They found it in California.

Right.

And you can't just—it doesn't add up that it would be popping up in all these random places if it escaped from Long Island Sound in 1953.

Right.

Right, which I think somebody who's subscribed to this conspiracy theory, and it's very much what it is, is a conspiracy theory, that, well, then the release wasn't purpose or accidental.

It was purposeful.

And that they spread it around the Northeast, California, and then Spooner, Wisconsin, which supposedly is the actual place where the first case of Lyme disease was described in the United States in 1969.

Yeah.

about six years before this cluster of juvenile arthritis cases popped up in Old Lyme, Lyme, and East Haddam.

Well, it's a very bad idea if that's what went on because you have to depend on a lot of things, which is, A, these ticks definitely finding their way to—