The recalcitrance of the broader medical research community to acknowledge that spirochetes can persist after antibiotics and continue to wreak havoc, is truly astounding. You'd think after all the "whoops, my bad" moments in history - handwashing, thalidomide, GRID/AIDS, to name a few, they would learn to be a bit more conservative in their stance, e.g. "we have not found direct evidence of chronic Lyme, but it has a plausible mechanism and widespread reports."

I've already seen the needle shift from "Lyme is impossible after antibiotics" to "well I guess some cases escape first round of treatment."