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I think you're shortselling the critics. See the quote from the article in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210290

Yes. In my eyes, the original Lyme vaccine was the first casualty of the modern anti-vax movement.

They claimed that the vaccine gave them Lyme when really the vaccine gave them an immune response for a few days... as vaccines should. Through a huge amount of media attention they scared away the pharma company, they stopped marketing, sales tanked, the vax was pulled. No medical issues with the vaccine were ever discovered.

The article covers that but very pointedly doesn't bring up the angle. Just a note that suddenly there were dramatically lower projected sales the next year.

If you read closely they attribute this to medical objections without mentioning the reason you're stating. Your statement better aligns with my memory of the period.