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>>ruarai+(OP)
This reminds me of the conspiracy theory book, Lab 257. There was a lab on Plum Island in the Long Island Sound that studied infectious diseases.

If you trace back the spread of Lyme disease in time, you get two points. One in Connecticut, and one on Long Island, where workers got on the boats to Plum Island.

The lab was studying diseases similar to Lyme disease at the time.

All those are facts.

The conspiracy theory is that Lyme disease was accidentally released by that lab.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_257#Discredited_consp...

>>kangnk+bI
> Archived specimens show that Lyme disease was endemic well before the establishment of Plum Island laboratory.

> Additionally, Lyme disease was never a topic of research at Plum Island, according to the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture.

These are facts, too, in your link. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>ceejay+uq1
You should read the actual book, because it addresses both of these points.

>>AdamJa+Jv1
How?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#History

> The 2010 autopsy of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy, revealed the presence of the DNA sequence of Borrelia burgdorferi making him the earliest known human with Lyme disease.

Unless it's got conclusive evidence of a functional time machine, it's gonna struggle to explain how a town in Connecticut predates a prehistoric mummy.