@barbc56 I think you may have misunderstood my intent, although this brand of publicity indeed may be a good thing, considering who more or less has controlled access to the media for the last three decades.
I was speaking to the discussion that would ensue with these denialists, in front of a room packed with reporters and TV cameras.
I want the world to hear, first hand, how the logic of denialists seems ultimately rooted in minimising the reports of the sick.
How it frequently pivots on flawed, circular reasoning.
How it has built into it a failsafe mechanism that ensures a deliberate, managed, and sanitized perspective of what some would typically promote as an illness of slight import.
How it insidiously and inexorably snakes its way to a pychosocial characterization that cavalierly victimizes victims.
I want to see them apply these characterizations to respected people who have their own spotlight, who have behind them a following of their own, and some money and clout and media-savvy of their own, and who have at their ready a proper support system and proper representation.
I want to see people respected and revered, cut down and reduced to a status of deluded dupes, and I want the world to see it on Prime Time TV. This is the daily lot for the hoi polloi who do not respond positively to IDSA-recommended therapy. The common man hasn't much to fall back on in the face of these assaults. They don't have the money. They don't command air time.
Famous people, people with money, lots of it, can help expose a dark back alley of the contemporary medical community. I want famous people who have some resources most do not, respond to the twisted haranguing logic seeping from Mainstreet Lyme, and I want it on TVs in living rooms and kitchens and bedrooms everywhere.
Then, maybe the world can see it in action, see people admired, even loved, cut down not just by the disease, but by a grim and often outrageous manifesto and PR machine that has resulted in an assembly-line mentality - one of whose primary effects, imo, appears to be to churn out negative diagnoses, and deny treatment to many very sick people.