NIH's Edward McSweegan plays the victim while clearly admitting to being a stalker and criminal, LOL
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Subject: NIH's Edward McSweegan plays the victim while clearly
admitting to being a stalker and criminal, LOL
Date: Feb 29, 2008 1:54 PM
This guy is clearly crazy, because he clearly admits he has been
stalking Lyme activists
for years - by quoting us and saving records of all we post - and now
says someone
told him to have a look at LymeNet, as if he has never done that
before. He spends
24/7 online stalking us and posting with remailers to hide his
address. He has
only one topic- harassing Lyme victims.
It's not like he's a scientist or anything, or has any work to do:
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/08_Feb_top_AL_pages.htm
Kathleen M. Dickson
Oh, and I was falsely arrested by Gauvin, which everyone can see with
their own
eyeballs:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
I wonder if Sweeg gave her the idea, since they're been playing that
victim
game since day one:
http://groups.google.com/group/scilyme2/browse_frm/thread/f25b0c432bddbb3b?hl=en#
"I need more than rumors to attack"
http://www.actionlyme.org/TICK_BITE_CONSPIRACY.htm
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http://id50.blogspot.com/2008/02/lyme-fora.html
February 29, 2008
Lyme Fora
Last year, a colleague suggested I check out one of the online Lyme
discussions
groups. She was a regular reader and thought it was a good way to keep
up with what
was going on--politically, culturally and medically--within the Lyme
Disease Movement.
And she was right. LymeNet, for example, frequently provides a window
into the planned
political activities of various groups and individuals in
Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and other states. So I suppose reading through some of the postings
was useful in
developing responses to Lymee statements and activities regarding
potential state
and national legislation.
At the same time, reading this stuff usually left me with a sharp pain
between the
eyes. I'm not sure which caused the most pain: the stunning level of
ignorance demonstrated
by most regular forum posters, or the nearly pathological hatred
directed at anyone
who is not a part of the community of believers.
These online Lyme forums are what the sociologist Susan Jacoby might
call "a toxic
brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance."
So it comes as no great surprise to find these message boards strewn
with gibberish
masquerading as fact, and common sense relegated to the kill-file by
puritanical
censors. Aside from spelling the word "Lyme" correctly (though even
that doesn't
always happen) these online forums offer no scientific or medical
information that
can be described as evidence-based. Visitors seeking factual
information would be
better off standing on a street corner and shouting questions to
random strangers;
one of whom actually might be a doctor or scientist, whereas the
online members
appear to consist of a small, self-selected coven of untrained
amateurs whose knowledge
of medicine and science is no deeper than their online access to
PubMed abstracts.
Still, some level of ignorance is understandable; not everyone wants
to spend his
or her life in medical or grad school.
What's harder to comprehend is the venomous hatred directed at anyone
who is not
in mindless lockstep with the beliefs and practices of these self-
diagnosed Lyme
patients and self-appointed Lyme activists. Maybe this virtual gang of
patient wannabes
is the first example of a kind of online 'medical fundamentalism' with
its own dogma,
prophets, and true believers, and a need to suppress any doubters or
heresies. Every
cult and conspiracy needs enemies.
What's remarkable about this irrational hatred is that it comes from a
population
that is largely made up of white, middle-aged, middle-class women with
some college
education (at least according to website demographics). Where do these
mothers,
wives and grandmothers get the kind of foaming rage normally
associated with neo-Nazis
and fundamentalist preachers?
I don't know. Certainly, it's not a symptom of Lyme Borreliosis. If it
were, I'd
be in favor of long-term antibiotic treatments. Hell, I'd even pay for
some of it.
That relentless hatred plays out in both the real world and the
Internet. Over the
years, numerous doctors, scientists, and public health officials have
been subjected
to mindless harassment. People have been stalked, threatened, and been
the recipients
of death threats. Police and security personnel have had to be present
at scientific
lectures and grand rounds presentations. Other Lyme disease meetings
have been canceled
or moved to avoid protestors. Universities have been picketed.
Academic physicians
have been pilloried. Uncooperative state legislators have been
harassed. Lyme activists
have called and written to directors and deans alleging employee
misconduct and
conflicts of interest. ("In addition to letter writing, another way to
"tell
it where it counts" is to contact... bosses. Unless it is made known to
people
other than ourselves, our views will not be effective....") Lawsuits are
threatened
on a regular basis (and one was actually filed, but failed). Lyme
disease activists
even have organized negative book reviews on Amazon.com to drive down
book sales
of authors they don't like.
Online, anyone who is not a part of the Lyme Omma is regularly
subjected to relentless
libel, anti-Semitic rants, and wild distortions of fact. Many others
are accused
of an incredible array of crimes, including mass murder, stalking,
harassment, and
various criminal conspiracies involving insurance companies, Big
Pharma, and secret
government experiments. All of it is done with gleeful
irresponsibility and the
demented encouragement of other patients and activists. (Some of my
favorite Lyme
Movement "facts" about me include the following: I am dead, divorced,
"heavily invested
in Insurance Companies, and SmithKline," work for Glaxo, hunt bears,
went to Rutgers
University, work for CDC, work for SmithKline, am a "bioweapons
expert" and I'm
"guilty of deaths on three continents." Apparently, I've lived quite
an exciting
life...except for that period when I was dead. The above comments are
pure fantasy--or
wishful thinking--but then reality to Lyme activists is a lot like fog;
ignore it
and it'll fade away.)
When the Executive Director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation
(ALDF) died
suddenly, the Cult of Lyme was ecstatic. Members merrily wrote: "Glad
he is dead.
Hope more will follow soon. fuck david weld. I hope he suffered
terrible mental
and physical pain in his last days." "Why don't you save your tears
for someone
who deserves them, rather than someone who made a career out of
causing them in
others?" "I wonder how weld's decrepit soul is holding up in the world
of eternal
hellfire and damnation." "I...have experienced great feelings of joy at
the demise
of this monstrous human being."
And what horrible crimes did Mr. Weld commit that he should be so
reviled? I have
no idea. He just ran a foundation dedicated to educating more people
about Lyme
disease and encouraging more research. Maybe he wasn't fanatical
enough about it.
The new ALDF director won't be either, so he can expect much the same
abuse and
scorn from the more rabid members of Lyme patient/activist groups.
"I don't know why they hate me so much," another colleague related
in a newspaper article last year. It's a question any of us (however
remotely connected
to research, medicine or activism) could ponder.
Posted by E.M. at 12:25
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