Julie Rehmeyer is an award-winning mathematics and science writer. She is a contributing editor to Discover Magazine, and has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Science News, and more.
Her stories have been featured on The History Channel and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is the 2016 recipient of Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at The University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. She lives in Santa Fe, NM.
- How CFS shows up in exercise.
- How CFS affects the amount of blood in your body.
- The connection between mold and CFS.
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throughtheshadowlands.com
Through the Shadowlands, by Julie Rehmeyer
Chapter 13. The Mold Tour. Page 164
There was something bewildering, though, about having the explanation delivered by a raving guy with the disaffected air of a homeless person, rather than by a white-coated doctor.
The stories Erik had told me started to resonate differently in my mind and my heart. What would it be like to go from mold being the problem for Erik, and a few other people, and now maybe me, to it being a problem for everyone with ME/CFS. And his strategies for bringing attention to his “clue” violated pretty much every norm in the scientific community.
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http://www.survivingmold.com/
Mold Warriors by Dr Ritchie Shoemaker
Gateway Press 2005
Chapt. 23
Mold at Ground Zero for CFS
History Doesn’t Remember the Names of the Critics
The history of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) begins in Incline Village, Nevada in 1985. In the medical history of CFS, each of the concepts applies–failed theories and failed criticism.
One victim, Erik Johnson, told everyone who would listen that mold was a cause of CFS. He came up with his theory at the wrong time in the politics of medical opinion, as a unknown viral cause was blamed instead. Johnson tried repeatedly to get the attention of leading CFS researchers then and now to look at what he knew about mold sensitivity. None of the heralded CFS researchers would listen.
Twenty years passed before Erik’s mold opinions were vindicated.