Infection Based Mental Illness

[Megs_Mom]

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emergi...es-plenty-proof

 

It's an amazing treasure trove of research information related to infectious causes of mental illness.

[MomWithOCDSon]

Thanks! More fuel for the fire I keep stoking under our doctors!

[mama2alex]

Thank you for posting this! I just picked up her book at the library yesterday and started reading it today.

 

If the Forward is any indication, this is going to be a very interesting read. Here's a sample:

 

"The ancient and formerly revered scientific rule known as Occam's razor, which holds that the simplest explanation is probably the correct explanation, has no credence in the Brave New World of contested diseases. Common logic, anecdotal evidence, and on-the-ground clinical observations - by which I mean the simple process of doctors listening to and thinking about what their patients are telling them - are held in disregard by the most powerful players in the research establishment. These power players include pious academicians who have little or no contact with patients who suffer from these maladies, yet form opinions and theories about them that carry far more weight in the medical community than is scientifically warranted. They reduce science to theology, changing the essential question from "What do the data say?" to "Do you believe in this disease or do you not?"

 

Sound familiar?

[Megs_Mom]

Thank you for posting this! I just picked up her book at the library yesterday and started reading it today.

 

If the Forward is any indication, this is going to be a very interesting read. Here's a sample:

 

"The ancient and formerly revered scientific rule known as Occam's razor, which holds that the simplest explanation is probably the correct explanation, has no credence in the Brave New World of contested diseases. Common logic, anecdotal evidence, and on-the-ground clinical observations - by which I mean the simple process of doctors listening to and thinking about what their patients are telling them - are held in disregard by the most powerful players in the research establishment. These power players include pious academicians who have little or no contact with patients who suffer from these maladies, yet form opinions and theories about them that carry far more weight in the medical community than is scientifically warranted. They reduce science to theology, changing the essential question from "What do the data say?" to "Do you believe in this disease or do you not?"

 

Sound familiar?

 

Every chapter, every page of this book felt like a life we were already living in some way. I learned SO much about the science & the research - it's an amazing book. It made me angry - it made me wonder - it made me hopeful. So glad you found it at your library!

[smartyjones]

meg's mom - has your daughter been diagnosed with lyme or were you reading this for knowledge?

[Fixit]

what book is this??

 

 

Thank you for posting this! I just picked up her book at the library yesterday and started reading it today.

 

If the Forward is any indication, this is going to be a very interesting read. Here's a sample:

 

"The ancient and formerly revered scientific rule known as Occam's razor, which holds that the simplest explanation is probably the correct explanation, has no credence in the Brave New World of contested diseases. Common logic, anecdotal evidence, and on-the-ground clinical observations - by which I mean the simple process of doctors listening to and thinking about what their patients are telling them - are held in disregard by the most powerful players in the research establishment. These power players include pious academicians who have little or no contact with patients who suffer from these maladies, yet form opinions and theories about them that carry far more weight in the medical community than is scientifically warranted. They reduce science to theology, changing the essential question from "What do the data say?" to "Do you believe in this disease or do you not?"

 

Sound familiar?

[mama2alex]

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic by Pamela Weintraub

 

 

what book is this??

 

 

Thank you for posting this! I just picked up her book at the library yesterday and started reading it today.

 

If the Forward is any indication, this is going to be a very interesting read. Here's a sample:

 

"The ancient and formerly revered scientific rule known as Occam's razor, which holds that the simplest explanation is probably the correct explanation, has no credence in the Brave New World of contested diseases. Common logic, anecdotal evidence, and on-the-ground clinical observations - by which I mean the simple process of doctors listening to and thinking about what their patients are telling them - are held in disregard by the most powerful players in the research establishment. These power players include pious academicians who have little or no contact with patients who suffer from these maladies, yet form opinions and theories about them that carry far more weight in the medical community than is scientifically warranted. They reduce science to theology, changing the essential question from "What do the data say?" to "Do you believe in this disease or do you not?"

 

Sound familiar?