John Toth, Kansas physician, gets time served for peddling fake Lyme disease cure

John Toth didn’t have the cure to Lyme disease. But he tried to sell it.

Toth, 61, proved quite the snake oil peddling scumbag. In September 2001, the Topeka physician and a group of associates started a company called American Biologics. Their strategy: Market and sell a microscope and drugs to diagnose and treat Lyme disease. They claimed that there was a Lyme disease “epidemic,” and that the disease was the cause of many illnesses. Except there wasn’t an epidemic. And the microscope and drugs were never reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.