Skip to Main Content
  • About
  • Disclaimer
  • Contact
LymeScience

Because patients deserve better

  • Science vs myths
  • Stories
  • Rogues Gallery
  • Legislative Guide
  • Scientific Consensus
  • Local Info
  • Medical Child Abuse
  • Coinfections Explained
  • Testing
  • Red flags
  • Science vs myths
  • Stories
  • Rogues Gallery
  • Legislative Guide
  • Scientific Consensus
  • Local Info
  • Medical Child Abuse
  • Coinfections Explained
  • Testing
  • Red flags

Stories

Steven Harris: Disciplined for intravenous garlic
26 Feb 2018

Steven Harris: Disciplined for intravenous garlic

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Rogues Gallery, Stories | 0

The California Medical Board details apparent horrific treatment of three patients, including a teenager. But the doctor received a slap on the wrist.

California, children, IgeneX, ILADS, ILADS/ILADEF leaders, Illinois, inappropriate prescribing, LymeDisease.org
How chronic Lyme groups trapped Nick
25 Feb 2018

How chronic Lyme groups trapped Nick

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Stories | 0

“Most of the things I was taught by the chronic Lyme community and by online groups later turned out to be false.”

victims
The trap of chronic Lyme
25 Feb 2018

The trap of chronic Lyme

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Science vs myths, Stories | 0

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

Cheryl Ortel- Sued for diagnosing Lyme rather than cancer
23 Feb 2018

Cheryl Ortel- Sued for diagnosing Lyme rather than cancer

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Rogues Gallery, Stories | 0

A serious diagnosis delayed

cancer and tumors, IgeneX, Maryland
A false chronic Lyme diagnosis leaves depression untreated
19 Feb 2018

A false chronic Lyme diagnosis leaves depression untreated

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Stories | 0

According to the consensus of experts: No studies suggest a convincing causal association between Lyme disease and any specific psychiatric conditions. But chronic Lyme is a harmful anti-science movement that falsely blames all of life’s problems, including neurological and psychiatric … Continued

Alfred Miller
When Worlds Collide- Lyme Disease
17 Feb 2018

When Worlds Collide- Lyme Disease

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Stories | 0

What may have begun as legitimate public advocacy about a new infectious agent has itself become a threat to public health.

Doctor and scientist commentaries
He had a brain tumor, not chronic Lyme disease
17 Feb 2018

He had a brain tumor, not chronic Lyme disease

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Stories | 0

Robert went to a “Lyme specialist” and underwent years of antibiotic treatment due to misdiagnosis of chronic Lyme disease. The true diagnosis was a brain tumor.

cancer and tumors
Excerpt from Medical Child Abuse
15 Feb 2018

Excerpt from Medical Child Abuse

by LymeScience Editor | posted in: Stories | 0

Stories of two children who received unnecessary diagnoses and prescriptions.

children, Doctor and scientist commentaries, Medical Child Abuse

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3

Useful Pages

  • Good Journalism
  • How “Chronic Lyme” Recruits
  • Doctor/Scientist Commentaries
  • The Harms of “Lyme Anxiety”
  • Lyme Misdiagnosis Illustrated
  • Scientific Papers
  • Former Quacks Speak Out
  • March for Science Ejects Harmful Cult

Recent Posts

  • More victims of Lyme quackery- updated January 3, 2025
  • Document Repository
  • UK doctors find most Lyme concerns unwarranted, again
  • How Dr. Google is Impacting Parental Medical Decision Making
  • “Lyme literate” doctor scam: A couple’s horrific experience
  • ILADS Clifford Fetters conned a dying cancer patient, says complaint
  • Geoffrey Ames: Sexual misconduct and quackery
  • Chronic Lyme quackery causes liver damage
  • ILADS method should not be used, says Polish Health Ministry
  • Doctor describes “Pseudo-Lyme disease” in 1995
  • Why Chronic Lyme is based on ideology, not science
  • French National Academy of Medicine condemns Lyme disinformation
  • “Chronic Lyme” patient dies after refusing lupus treatment
  • FDA cites IgeneX for problematic testing
  • Protected: “Media-inspired panic” about Lyme documented in 1989
  • Fairy dust cleanse: How to create a health scam
  • Our favorites from Dr. Glaucomflecken
  • CDC: Why PCR/DNA direct testing isn’t used for Lyme diagnosis
  • Mother falsely claimed son was harmed by vaccines, Lyme disease, leaky gut, heavy metals, EMFs, gluten, and more
  • Geeta Shroff/Nutech MediWorld: Exploiting hope with discredited stem cell treatments
  • No credible evidence supports rumors about stretch marks
  • Anti-vax doctor Paul Thomas surrenders license after gross negligence, mistreating children
  • Doctor explains “The Grace of Denial”
  • Teenager develops psychosis after abuse with antibiotics and disulfiram
  • Protected: Lyme misdiagnosis story from 1991
  • My mom has MS. Facebook convinced her she had “chronic Lyme”.
  • Chronic illness support group bans Lyme misinformation to protect patients
  • Pediatrician discusses alarming “chronic Lyme” abuse of a young boy
  • Chronic Lyme diagnosis and treatment lead to abuse of teenage boy
  • So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA Publishers
  • FDA warns of child abuse with MMS bleach
  • UK watchdog condemns ILADS propaganda
  • UK warns about inappropriate Lyme disease testing
  • Experts: How Lyme disease became a scapegoat
  • Experts review “Chronic Lyme Disease”
  • Chronic Lyme drugs cause life-threatening skin detachment
  • Lyme literate child abuser disciplined twice
  • False Lyme diagnoses documented by military doctors
  • ILADS doctor disciplined after “Lyme” patient dies of Cancer
  • NIH discusses IgeneX unreliability for Lyme testing
  • On Lyme, 20+ German Medical Groups Agree
  • David C. Wright: Disciplined after mistreated patient gets C. diff
  • Journalist mom explains appeal and dangers of chronic Lyme
  • “Lyme Literate” Martin D. Fried: Felony Drug Conviction
  • Fewer deaths in Lyme patients than typical Americans, a year after diagnosis
  • Lyme continuing education (CME, CEU) for medical professionals
  • Samento/Cat’s Claw: Chronic Lyme Snake Oil
  • Kurt E. Johnson: Disciplined after allegations of gross negligence
  • Maladie de Lyme chronique: un scandal médical à condamner!
  • Chronic Lyme disease: A scam that should be condemned!

About LymeScience

The CDC and medical organizations around the world have warned of false and misleading information about curable tick-borne infections like Lyme disease.

Such misinformation is being spread by so-called “Lyme literate” doctors and “Lyme warriors” who promote themselves as patient advocates while doing a disservice to patients.

Victims of misinformation may come to believe they have multiple sham infections such as “chronic Lyme”, “chronic tick-borne Bartonella”, “chronic Babesia”, “toxic mold illness”, and Morgellons. Often, they are also falsely told they are immunocompromised.

Families are spending enormous amounts of time and money on quackery in desperate attempts to treat unrecognized infections, when something else is causing the symptoms.

This is an independent site created to separate facts from fiction using the best scientific evidence.  Because patients deserve better.

© 2025 LymeScience