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Fascinating article on how the snake oil shysters are driving legitimate researchers out of medicine: Judge Dismisses Lyme Disease Lawsuit Against IDSA, Doctors, but the Ordeal Has Left Its Scars

So the last thing Sigal expected after all these years was to find himself named in a lawsuit alleging that he was part of a conspiracy to deny patients of what they claimed was appropriate treatment for Lyme disease. Yet, that's exactly what happened in November 2017, when a group of 24 patients with Lyme disease, led by Texas resident Lisa Torrey, filed a lawsuit against the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), eight insurance companies, and seven of the doctors involved in producing the IDSA guidelines on Lyme disease diagnosis and management. Sigal himself had not even participated in writing the guidelines. He simply reviewed them, made a few grammatical suggestions, and said they looked good. Yet, over the next 4 years, he and his fellow defendants rode an emotional rollercoaster of seemingly endless motions, amendments, and other legal developments, waiting to find out whether they would owe millions of dollars for simply summarizing — or just reviewing — the available medical literature on Lyme disease.

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