ALT Excerpt from Lawrence Afrin's book: Actually, I had heard previously of the alleged phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion, and, like every other normal person, I hadn't thought much of it, imagining it to be hallucination or hoax of some sort but here I had in front of me a real, live patient who had had a real, live, multiply witnessed episode of spontaneous human combustion (actually, by the time of the second visit it was now two such episodes), and there simply was no way it was mass hallucination, nor was the-re the slightest reason for the patient or anybody else to be perpetrating any hoax, let alone a hoax as bizarre as this. No, this was not imaginary. He really had started smoking, and there-fore spontaneous human combustion must be possible. Furthermore, it was most likely that MCAS was the root of all of his problems, so it was now "sim-ply" a matter of figuring out at least one mechanism by which MCAS might theoretically drive spontaneous combustion.

ALT Excerpt from “Making Invisible Illnesses Visible: Recognizing and Responding to Infection Associated Chronic Conditions” [IACC], where Dr. Stephanie Haridopolos is listed as co-author: Five randomized clinical trials have failed to find benefit from prolonged antibiotic treatment (typically intravenous ceftriaxone, often in combination with oral doxycycline) in Lyme disease IACCI and four of the five found harms including frequent antibiotic-related adverse events, catheter and infusion complications, and occasional serious events requiring hospitalization including sepsis.7 [7 = NASEM committee report paid for by chronic Lyme pseudoscience advocates] Prolonged therapy with antibiotics also increases individual and population level risks for C. difficile infection and antimicrobial resistance, respectively. Given absence of benefit and substantial evidence of harm, there is a need to search for causes besides persistent infection which could lead to effective targeted therapies.