# Lyme disease origin **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 30, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398 "2025-01-30T13:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/1 "2025-01-30T13:48:13Z")
I was going to throw this in the politics meme thread but thought it was worth it’s own thread so we could discuss it a bit without it getting buried in memes. Half watching the confirmation hearings for RFK yesterday and one of the interactions that caught me off guard was Senator Michael Bennet asking RFK if he once said lyme disease was a “highly likely military engineered bioweapon”, to which RFK responded, “I probably did”. I thought, wow, that’s quite a thing to say at a hearing, I wonder why he would have said such a thing… Which of course sent me down the rabbit hole. I did not know, for instance, that lyme disease got it’s name from Lyme, CT, a small town in Connecticut that was the first place the disease was identified in 1975 because of an outbreak. I also did not know that Plum Island is home to the US Government Animal Disease Center, and just happens to be a stones throw across the Long Island Sound away from Lyme, CT. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/e/1/e1eba40d50b9ec8dc5ef13244ce8be6d736b97ed.jpeg) What were some of the things the government was up to back then? Oh, just researching ways to use insects to spread a disease somewhere like Cuba (after the Bay of Pigs failed) so we could decimate their sugar production by discretely infecting the laborers in the fields using insects covertly dropped in the fields. > **[Did the US Invent Lyme Disease in the 1960s? The House Aims to Find Out](https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lyme-disease-1960s-house-aims-find-out/158529/)** > > A decades-old conspiracy theory says Cold War bioweapons research is sickening tens of thousands of Americans a year. > **[Long Before Suspicions Arose About A Lab Leak, Government Scientists Were...](https://www.jospi.org/article/73077-long-before-suspicions-arose-about-a-lab-leak-government-scientists-were-fiddling-with-bugs-to-make-them-more-deadly)** > > By Paul Thacker. Filmmaker and book author Kris Newby dives into the secretive federal research that may have made Lyme disease such a problem in the United States. [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/8/5/85382f424d0334f216b80a8fd497339574200465.jpeg "Why New York's Plum Island is Totally Forbidden") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORCoIpNcSSA) ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/2 "2025-01-30T16:36:18Z")
This is pretty interesting. I would hate to never be able to eat steak again. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/3 "2025-01-31T00:46:29Z")
Over the years I’ve heard this. And if it was true then we’ll never admit it. ---
**Author:** ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/4 "2025-01-31T14:27:34Z")
Bauerle has a lyme show every once and a while and Plum Island comes up, although the show is mostly advocacy and treatment. I got 2 ticks this year, best I can tell from my own yard, probably due to having a lowrider beagle. ---
**Author:** ![TurboTSi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@TurboTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTSi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/5 "2025-01-31T15:32:03Z")
Nothing like this surprises me anymore. It’s amazing how all of the “conspiracy theories” are actually true. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/6 "2025-01-31T17:11:56Z")
Exactly. I’m not saying it’s true, not saying it isn’t. Just… damn, that’s quite a lot of coincidences. That and there’s literally no shitty thing I wouldn’t believe the government did anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lyme-disease-origin/1414398/7 "2025-01-31T21:07:10Z")
The easiest path is normally the truth, I can’t see how this wasn’t from plum island