Jean Mercer and Jacob Sullum: Conspiring to Censor?
Particle Princess
respected academic institution.
She has, however, never held a license to practice. This means she has
never seen a single patient!
This does not stop her from speaking out on matters she may not be
qualified to address.
Recently, she has started a blog on Psychology Today.
People have come to this blog, seeking honest answers about the
following:
1. Her lack of professional credentials
2. Her association with Larry Sarner, who has, among other things,
been involved in a voting machine scandal and is, himself, somewhat of
a “pseudoscientist” advocating nontraditional, or even “fringe” ideas
about medicine
3. Linda Rosa, who, with her husband, Larry Sarner, writes a blog
on the reprehensible topic of “child torture!”
4. Monica Pignotti, who was both a Scientologist and practitioner
of Roger Callahan’s “Thought Field Therapy” and “Voice Technology.”
Pignotti has walked away from both, but spends a lot of time and
effort attacking them.
5. Charly D. Miller, who plans to (but has not) write a series of
Harry Potter travel guides. When she is (not?) writing these guides,
she maintains a website full of copyrighted material. The owners of
this material are often compelled to resort to legal means to protect
their copyrights!
Mercer, Sarner, Rosa, Pignotti, and Miller appear to be working with
conservative (maybe “neocon” is more accurate?) organizations in their
promulgation of quackery and attacks on free speech. When too many
questions are asked, they disappear from the blog!
Monica Pignotti has been involved in litigation against Ileana
Rosenthal. One of Rosenthal’s main opponents has been Andrew Langer.
Langer, despite portraying himself as an “advocate of rights” has
attacked anonymous free speech!
Langer has been affiliated with the Competitive Enterprise Institute
(CEI), funded almost exclusively by the oil and tobacco industries.
CEI is staffed by “non scientists” such as Myron Ebell and John
Berlau. Andrew Langer was at CEI before establishing the oddly-named
Institute for Liberty (how can it be called that when Langer opposes
free speech?).
Another CEI “non scientist” is Brooke Oberwetter. She is currently
with a firm called “DC Signal” and there is speculation that this
communications consultancy is assisting Mercer and her colleagues in
their efforts to suppress any discussion of matters that would reflect
poorly upon them.
The saga continues: http://particleprincess.wordpress.com/