It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week! This week we take on RFK Jr.’s claims that Lyme Disease is a bioweapon. Hint: it’s not.

Whopper of the Week: Lyme dise...
Whopper of the Week: Lyme disease is Not a Bioweapon | Defend Public Health

RFK baselessly claimed that Lyme Disease “is highly likely to have been a military weapon,” adding, “we also know they were experimenting with diseases of the kind, like Lyme disease, at that lab [Plum Island], and putting them in ticks and then infecting people, testing them with bird vectors…" There is no evidence that Lyme disease was ever a research topic at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, let alone a bioweapon.