Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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This machine named for a very quackish sounding doctor named Royal Raymond Reif from the nineteen forties that is supposed to generate audio waves that shatter bacteria at certain frequencies, much the way a opera singer's voice can shatter a champagne glass at the right frequency.
And this machine is basically a weird box, looks like a eighties.
Computer from like war games or some 1980s sci-fi movie, and it has metal things that you grip that transmit the waves through your body, and you type in the frequency into the box, and the box generates this frequency, and you know, by God, it really seemed to work.
Don't know what else to say, right?
And in saying that, I am, from a skeptic's point of view, I am undercutting somewhat what I think of as
of the core medical testimony of the book, but I'm also one, saying what actually happened, and two, I think being true to just the really complex reality of what it's like to try and treat yourself for an illness that the medical system doesn't have, a simple way of treating.
I think at its best it is just people sharing experiences with varying treatments and doctors too.
But there's just a crowdsourced anecdot about, oh, did you try this combination?
How did you feel when you took this drug?
Oh man, I herxed for a week after I went on that combination, this kind of thing.
I said, but I would have tried anything.
But when I tried things, I didn't actually try anything.
I tried things that other people were trying and talking about.
In experimenting, I was following along with other people who were conducting their own experiments, which again falls way short of the evidentiary standards demanded for medical treatment and for good reason in this country, but also is not a simply random way to treat uh
persistent chronic illness.
So that's that world at its best.
And then the problem with that world is the obvious problem, which is that once you fall off the map, as it were, of official medicine, it becomes easy to believe that all truth lies off the map and everything that official medicine says can't be trusted and either is a lie or is corrupted in some sense.
I think there's a strong sense in the chronic Lyme world that the doctors who are refusing to treat this aren't just wrong but are somehow in the pocket of big pharma, some group.
I think fundamentally to the extent that the consensus is getting things wrong.
It's getting it wrong for reasons of group think that are pretty common.
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