Sweeg's Stalking Article is below
this introduction:
NIH's Edward McSweegan
was involved in every single one of these stalking and harassment cases about
which he speaks, below. He is actually talking about the results of his
own stalking and harassment, for which
is he well known.
Here,
Double-Oh McSweegan Illegally visits
Israeli Bioweapons Facility
reports himself on yet another of his
tard-blogs
His
obsession
with women with Lyme, and especially mothers of
children with congenital Lyme, comes through.
The NIH has repeatedly told
Sweeg he cannot be
involved in the stalking, harassment and trashing of Lyme victims, and in fact,
lost his position over it at the NIH, and was transferred out of the "Lyme
Program." Sweeg was told to remove this from his personal
Verizon website, but apparently he put it back up. Here is more about him
on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_McSweegan
The truth of the matter is that Sweeg is the
dumbest scientist to ever be employed as a gubbamintard, as we can see from his
US-Navy trashing letter to Senator Goldwater-
OspA was all his idea, and there can never be a vaccine for Relapsing Fever,
since Antigenic Variation is the nature of the relapse (antibodies are rendered
useless). Here we see CDC officer Alan
Barbour (owner of the ImmuLyme OspA patent, over which IDSA's Gary Wormser
is still being sued), say that even OpsA undergoes true antigenic variation- and
that was 1992- before the OspA vaccine trials even began!!
OspA also suppresses the immune system
and is actually responsible for all the
Great Imitators:
101016.htm So, I was right
about that, also, when I explained it to
the FDA Vaccine Committee in Jan 2001:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
(See page 7 re IL-10 and NK cell
activity)
McSweegan is officially
America's Dumbest Scientist,
"No-Work-McSweegan" (CBS
News) but then, one can see why he is so stupid- he is a psychopath who focuses all
his energy on harassing Lyme victims, rather than genuine scientific pursuit,
and as you can see from his letter to Goldwater and the Wikipedia page on Sweeg,
he made a career out of trashing people, stating his job was better suited for
an intern- both in his interview for the Washington Post and in his letter to
Barry Goldwater.
The nature of evil or a psychopath is that they never have an original idea.
They lack creativity, as in the case of Satan, himself.
So,
here is how No-Work McSweegan actually
spends his time...
http://mysite.verizon.net/emcsweegan/LD.html
The Wacky World of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a common tick-borne infection that
generates an uncommon amount of angst, hysteria, and bizarre behavior among
people who think they might have the infection. The first
inkling I had of this psychosocial reaction to
Borrelia burgdorferi
was a phone call from a local veterinarian. She called to
ask about a meeting I was organizing and, in the course of the conversation, she
mentioned that she had recently injected herself with a crude canine vaccine
against Lyme disease. I thought that was a foolish
precaution against an infection that is antibiotic-responsive, non-fatal,
non-communicable, and geographically- and seasonally-limited.
But then I started to encounter far crazier people.
There was
Janice Beers, a lawyer, who ran a Ohio support group for people who may or
may not have had Lyme disease. Despite the diagnostics and
the assurances of her two physician sons, she insisted she had Lyme disease.
That singular obsession seemed to have led her to
conspiracy theories about Lyme disease.
Paranoia and
delusion followed. She wrote 30-page tomes about these
conspiracy theories and her painstakingly gathered evidence of those
conspiracies, which she mailed to me and numerous other scientists, officials
and politicians. (Fortunately, this was before the
widespread use of blogs and websites so none of her depressing, disturbed
thoughts are preserved online.) Evidently, the paranoia
became unbearable and she fled her house, her family, and the state.
A call to me from a family member suggested she might be headed our
way—possibly with a gun—so the local police were alerted.
She never showed up and has long since disappeared from
that patient/activist fantasy world called, "Lymeland."
Perhaps her physician sons managed to get her the psychiatric care she so
obviously needed.
Then along came
Karen Forschner, another
self-appointed activist for Lyme disease patients. She
started one of the first Lyme disease organizations in the U.S., but her message
and her
personae quickly inspired some of her early backers in the scientific
community to abandon her foundation and start their
own.
Indeed, I found her
to be one of most deceitful, despicable, deluded people I have ever had the
misfortune to meet. (And, in 50 years, across 32 states and
26 countries, I've had plenty of opportunities to meet people.
Karen still takes the prize.)
She wanted cooperation—on her terms—and she didn't want any
questions. I won't give her the first and asked too many of
the second, which led to angry, threatening phone calls to my boss and wild
accusations on the
Internet. Eventually, she tried a $2 million lawsuit.
That might have worked—bankruptcy has a way of refocusing the mind—but
for the interventions of the ACLU and the pro bono work of
Morrison & Foerster.
They knew a petty assault on free speech when they saw one and really
seemed to enjoy crushing this one. (Now I carry $2 million worth of umbrella and
professional liability insurance.)
The suit was
tossed out of
court. Karen and her foundation have since dropped off
the map, but there is still plenty of belligerent and disturbing behavior in
Lymeland.
In late 2003, for example, a woman named
Kathleen Dickson,
started peppering a Usenet group with my name, accusing me of all the crimes and
misdeeds Karen Forschner had previously accused me of committing.
I've never met this woman, but she's a friend of Karen's and perhaps she
felt compelled to carry on the tradition of
insane behavior in the name of Lyme disease.
Her online rants were briefly interrupted when she was
arrested for doing to a Connecticut
Assistant Attorney General what she was doing to me.
She
was forcefully confined, and presumably medicated, and then given "accelerated
rehabilitation." The rehab didn't take because she's
back howling on the Web. To date, she's posted my name on
Usenet groups some 1,180 times.
Even more disturbing than her regular Usenet nonsense is a
messy website she has assembled detailing all the related crimes and
conspiracies supposedly perpetrated by me, my colleagues, the federal
government, insurance companies, Yale University, her ex-husband and various
family members, Jews, the FBI, various Ct. politicians and lawyers, and....well,
everybody. According to Dickson,
everyone is stupid and corrupt (except
her) and involved in a massive conspiracy about Lyme disease, vaccines and
bioweapons. Someone with an interest in psychology and a
flair for computer graphics should try to distill her website and its
HTML-linked accusations down to a graphic representation of her interlocking and
self-reinforcing delusions. I'd pay good money to see such a
projection of mental illness; It might even be a useful diagnostic.
About the same time that
Kathleen Dickson was digitally foaming at the mouth, another woman appeared
online to parrot her accusations about me and Lyme disease.
At first I didn't think she really existed; I thought she might be an online
alter ego for Dickson. But Lisa Masterson (aka
Elena Cook and
LymeRayja@yahoo.co.uk) is apparently real, British, middle-aged, and a total
wackjob. The mental health folks in London appear to have
scooped her up at one point. They seem to have had more
success treating her than the U.S. authorities did treating Kathleen Dickson.
Ms. Masterson/Cook has since faded from the Internet though her demented
rants about Lyme disease, stalking, eavesdropping, and
bioweapons live on in
Google searches.
There is little reprieve from people with Internet
connections and obsessions about Lyme disease. The latest
online conspiracy nut is another middle-aged woman in Katonah, New York named
Carla Kruytbosch (aka Snappy, Snapcrackle and
Freyfaxi@optonline.net).
Her particular obsession is that Lyme disease is an engineered bioweapon
that escaped from Nazi doctors working on New York's Plum Island.
Online, she lists herself as a professor and has posted several fantastic
versions of her Lyme disease conspiracy on
Wikipedia.
(This again shows that Wikipedia's authors are often
fakes and what they write is usually inaccurate and
defamatory.)
According to a blurb from Westchester Community College,
she once taught web design and computer graphics, has a web consulting business
called Freyfaxi Media, which does not seem to exist, and a
web-based teaching site, www.thenetcollege.com, which does not seem to function.
I guess she's too busy trying to rewrite reality to do any real work.
Or maybe she was kicked in the head too many times by the mythical
Icelandic horse, Freyfaxi.
What is it about white, upper-middle-class,
college-educated, middle-aged women that compels them to use
a common infectious
disease as the vehicle for their emotional and psychological problems?
Whatever the reasons, it's very likely that Lyme-obsessed nuts will
continue to appear. Today, the unregulated online culture of
blogs, Usenet posts, websites, chat rooms, web rings, Wikipedia entries, and
support groups seems ideally designed to sustain and propagate hysteria,
disinformation, quackery and hatred.
Someone stop the Internet!
I want off!
