Conflicts of Interest

Raymond Dattwyler

RD was one of the 9/14 guideline authors to receive money from vaccine manufacturers.

RD was one of the 4/14 authors to receive money from Lyme or co-infection test kit manufacturers.

RD is one of the 3 authors and 3 universities that have patents on Lyme or co-infection tests.

RD is one of the 9/14 guideline authors with the potential to profit from the guideline recommendations.

NYMC/Westchester and/or its employees have a financial stake in 5 test companies.

2006 Guidelines mandate tests for anyone not having a Lyme rash. RD is one of the 9/14 authors and/or their employees that may benefit from this recommendation.

RD

https://sites.google.com/site/idsaonlyme/documents

RD Quotes

"Negative serologic tests mean negative, and positive tests have up to a 50 to 1 chance of being false, and having a positive test does not mean you're not cured" Raymond Dattwyler, MD, in 1993 WLIW TV interview.

Quotes- https://sites.google.com/site/idsaonlyme/documents/ticked-at-the-times

Dattwyler- New York Medical College

"The doctor at Southampton Hospital didn't evaluate you properly," he began, then stopped, correcting himself: "Nah, the doctor was a jerk." https://sites.google.com/site/idsaonlyme/documents/ticked-at-the-times