Chronic Lime Disease

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There's a pervading consensus, or at least a reg and widespread belief, that this is sychosomatic in some kind of way. The reality is that isn't a sort of clear cut way to treat that kind of condition. But the doctors who do treat chronic lime disease essentially use a mixture of anabiotics and other things over extremely long periods of time.

Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times, has long advocated for a brand of reform conservatism that stands in stark contrast to Trumpism. His latest book, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery, chronicles his long struggle with Lyme disease.

In this week’s conversation, Ross Douthat and Yascha Mounk discuss why the expert consensus sometimes fails, when to listen to outsiders, and whether the failures of the establishment help to explain the rise of populism.

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