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Kris Newby

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303 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You couldn't trace bomb fuses or fingerprints on the back of a tick. It was very much a stealth weapon, I would say.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You couldn't trace bomb fuses or fingerprints on the back of a tick. It was very much a stealth weapon, I would say.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, when Willie was 27, they brought him over here. He was thrilled at getting a really well-paid job in America in a beautiful place, Hamilton, Montana. He got his own lab and his own assistant. So he was thrilled. And then as soon as he got his security clearance, then he learned, you know, the diabolical experiments that he was supposed to conduct.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, when Willie was 27, they brought him over here. He was thrilled at getting a really well-paid job in America in a beautiful place, Hamilton, Montana. He got his own lab and his own assistant. So he was thrilled. And then as soon as he got his security clearance, then he learned, you know, the diabolical experiments that he was supposed to conduct.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, when Willie was 27, they brought him over here. He was thrilled at getting a really well-paid job in America in a beautiful place, Hamilton, Montana. He got his own lab and his own assistant. So he was thrilled. And then as soon as he got his security clearance, then he learned, you know, the diabolical experiments that he was supposed to conduct.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And, you know, I think it was a romantic and exciting at first. But then as he got deeper and deeper into the program and he got more mature, he had two boys and, you know, he would spend the days stuffing plague in fleas, plague that killed most of Europe time and time again. And it was the kind of thing where you wouldn't want to bring your work home, plague.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And, you know, I think it was a romantic and exciting at first. But then as he got deeper and deeper into the program and he got more mature, he had two boys and, you know, he would spend the days stuffing plague in fleas, plague that killed most of Europe time and time again. And it was the kind of thing where you wouldn't want to bring your work home, plague.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And, you know, I think it was a romantic and exciting at first. But then as he got deeper and deeper into the program and he got more mature, he had two boys and, you know, he would spend the days stuffing plague in fleas, plague that killed most of Europe time and time again. And it was the kind of thing where you wouldn't want to bring your work home, plague.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

It started eroding his resolve to have that profession. And then he realized he was stuck in that profession. He couldn't really publish his work because it was all top secret. But he went along with it. And over time, he became more dissatisfied. And then when he was sent out to investigate this mysterious case, outbreak in Lyme, Connecticut.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

It started eroding his resolve to have that profession. And then he realized he was stuck in that profession. He couldn't really publish his work because it was all top secret. But he went along with it. And over time, he became more dissatisfied. And then when he was sent out to investigate this mysterious case, outbreak in Lyme, Connecticut.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

It started eroding his resolve to have that profession. And then he realized he was stuck in that profession. He couldn't really publish his work because it was all top secret. But he went along with it. And over time, he became more dissatisfied. And then when he was sent out to investigate this mysterious case, outbreak in Lyme, Connecticut.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

That's when he realized it was tick-borne and there was another organism, a Rickettsia, which is related to the Rocky Mountain spot of fever, the most deadly tick-borne disease. It was killing people. He was upset. And then he was told, well, there's also the spirochete there. He discovered that too, that we call Lyme, that is the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

That's when he realized it was tick-borne and there was another organism, a Rickettsia, which is related to the Rocky Mountain spot of fever, the most deadly tick-borne disease. It was killing people. He was upset. And then he was told, well, there's also the spirochete there. He discovered that too, that we call Lyme, that is the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

That's when he realized it was tick-borne and there was another organism, a Rickettsia, which is related to the Rocky Mountain spot of fever, the most deadly tick-borne disease. It was killing people. He was upset. And then he was told, well, there's also the spirochete there. He discovered that too, that we call Lyme, that is the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

But he was told, this other Rickettsia, hide it. Like, don't tell anybody you found it and just blame the whole disease on Borrelia burgdorferi. As a scientist, you're number one, you're supposed to always tell the truth, even if it doesn't fit your hypothesis. So in his original science discovery article of Lyme disease, he wrote about this second organism and he said...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

But he was told, this other Rickettsia, hide it. Like, don't tell anybody you found it and just blame the whole disease on Borrelia burgdorferi. As a scientist, you're number one, you're supposed to always tell the truth, even if it doesn't fit your hypothesis. So in his original science discovery article of Lyme disease, he wrote about this second organism and he said...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

But he was told, this other Rickettsia, hide it. Like, don't tell anybody you found it and just blame the whole disease on Borrelia burgdorferi. As a scientist, you're number one, you're supposed to always tell the truth, even if it doesn't fit your hypothesis. So in his original science discovery article of Lyme disease, he wrote about this second organism and he said...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You know, this disease could be caused by Lyme disease, this Lyme bacterium or this Rickettsia or a combination of both. But someone made him pull that out of his scientific article. And how do I know that? Because I had his first handwritten draft of the article and then it disappeared. And then he told me that it disturbed him.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You know, this disease could be caused by Lyme disease, this Lyme bacterium or this Rickettsia or a combination of both. But someone made him pull that out of his scientific article. And how do I know that? Because I had his first handwritten draft of the article and then it disappeared. And then he told me that it disturbed him.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You know, this disease could be caused by Lyme disease, this Lyme bacterium or this Rickettsia or a combination of both. But someone made him pull that out of his scientific article. And how do I know that? Because I had his first handwritten draft of the article and then it disappeared. And then he told me that it disturbed him.