I am confused by your statement concerning climate scientists. Are you a climate scientist? I still don't see any reference to people telling climate scientists what to think. However if you believe all are apolitical I don't know what to say. As far as Lyme goes, about time it has gotten the attention it deserves after decades of CDC ignoring, Drs being stripped of credentials for exposing the danger. Glad you are studying this. How long have you been in vector disease? Interesting field. My BS degree is from URI in Environmental Science. At the time,early 90s, URI was the premier University studying Lyme. We participated in field studies in our Grad level Bio class. Good stuff. There was a nature article last month effectively providing a list of what they deemed climate deniers, included in that list were preeminent climate scientists. Huge uproar in the climate science community, surprised you had not heard about it