#749: Lyme Disease and Biowarfare with Kris Newby
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Marty sits down with Kris Newby to discuss the hidden history of tick‑borne bioweapon research, the rise of Lyme and Alpha‑Gal allergies, and what it means for public health today.
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| 0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, |
| 0:24.4 | Bitcoin wins. |
| 0:25.3 | In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:29.2 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.3 | Chris, welcome to the show. |
| 0:37.5 | Thank you for joining me. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, Marty. |
| 0:39.6 | Thanks for inviting me on. |
| 0:41.5 | Well, I'm very excited to do this for the audience out there. |
| 0:44.3 | Who may not know, sitting down with Chris Newby, who's an award-winning science writer, investigative |
| 0:49.2 | journalist and senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary under our skin. |
| 0:53.7 | She also wrote a book called Bitten, The Secret History of Lime Disease and Biological |
| 0:58.0 | Weapons in 2019. |
| 1:01.0 | You won three awards for that book, but I think most importantly, you're delving into this |
| 1:08.0 | particular line of investigative reporting started because you and her husband were |
| 1:12.7 | bitten by ticks, Martha's Vineyard in 2002, and basically went on a wild goose chase to figure |
| 1:20.2 | out what happened to you. And through that process, sort of went bankrupt and went down this rabbit hole. |
| 1:29.7 | So this is a beat you've been covering for over two decades now at this point. |
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