McSweegan in the news (America's incompetent and deadly "scientist")

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: Re: [SpinLyme] McSweegan and his overpaid company

Date: Oct 19, 2008 5:25 PM

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http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
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/dictionary_of_connecticutisms.htm
/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/McSweegan.htm
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/BIOWEAPONEERS_CORIXA_YALE_TLRS.htm
/YALES_VARIOUS_FRAUDS.htm

^Most popular pages of all time from
my site statistics. Lots of people
are looking at this guy, trust me.

Dot mils, if you know what I mean.

The same is true for the other website:
http://www.relapsingfever.org

Crazy Eddie is the most popular, um,
biological specimen.


Don't forget, though, most of the crazy
"Chuck P Adams" posts come from New Haven,
while we caught someone posting from
Crofton, MD at nearly the same time:
http://www.actionlyme.org/IP_CROFTON_MCSWEEGAN.htm

Who do we know lives in Crofton, Maryland?
http://www.actionlyme.org/MCSWEEGAN_AND_DUMB_EUROPEANS.html

^You all should read that Sweeg letter to the editor
in order to examine its inherent stupidity: "There's no
disease for which Europe should get the next, Baxter,
OspA vaccine."


You can see why he has been kept out of any labs.
The real deal is that none of his co-NIH employees
wants to go anywhere near him.

Remember what was discovered during the lawsuits.
This was posted by Karen Forschner of the Lyme Foundation:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/1ac1440a81f063a8/ab5500d97b45a8d8?lnk=gst&q=clairvoyance&rnum=1#ab5500d97b45a8d8


"The LDF received a lot of material from Ed during the time he was
suing
the LDF. Much of this crossed lines from NIH to CDC and to the FDA.
Ed
appeared to be very concerned with the activities of various people
and we were
not the only ones to receive threats, retaliation, or reporting to
federal
authorities.

***"His own colleagues and a grantee was included as targets to be
turned
in to federal, state, and local officials accused of serious
wrongdoing.***

"It wasn't just the LDF."


He's done that his entire working career, if you
examine closely his Senator Barry Goldwater Letter:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm

Irony anyone?

He cost us way more than his salaries year in
and year out... His crimes now include screwing
up HIV and cancer research for the last 10+ years.

McSweegan's is the most incompetent and deadly
track record of any American "scientist."


Kathleen
http://www.actionlyme.org

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>Sent: Oct 19, 2008 4:35 PM
>To: Spin...@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [SpinLyme] McSweegan and his overpaid company
>
>This article shows a picture of McSweegan. Looks like doing nothing has taken
a toll on him.
>
>He has gained much weight, his hair has turned gray, and he may have lost his
Neanderthal eyebrows. Or maybe he goes to the beauty parlor with his
spare time
and cash and gets his eyebrows plucked.
>
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18796
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>Money for (Practically) Nothing: 4 Very Big Paychecks for Very Little Work
>by Ethan Trex - September 30, 2008 - 11:45 AM Work hard, get promoted, succeed
in your new post, and eventually you'll start earning the big money.
This progression
seems like a firmly ingrained part of the American Dream, and it's
certainly
worked for a lot of people.
>
>However, these steps aren't absolutely necessary to fatten your bank account,
as Washington Mutual CEO Alan Fishman learned last week. When WaMu
failed and was
seized by government regulators, Fishman had been on the job for just
17 days. However,
he was contractually guaranteed $11.6 million in cash severance on top
of the $7.5
million signing bonus he got for taking the job. Basically, Fishman
netted just
under $20 million for 17 days of work, which is a pretty nice setup
for the head
of a collapsing corporation. (In Fishman's defense, it's tough to
blame
WaMu's failure on his leadership alone; it seems highly unlikely that
any CEO,
however determined, could crash such a large thrift in just two
weeks.)
>
>Fishman's not the only person to reap huge rewards for relatively little
work. Here are few other well-compensated employees who didn't have to
put in
too many years of service:
>
>1. Michael Ovitz
>
>After co-founding Creative Artists Agency in 1975, Ovitz quickly skyrocketed
through the ranks of entertainment agents until he established himself
as one of
the most powerful men in Hollywood. In 1995, though, he left CAA to
become president
of Disney. Ovitz's tenure at Disney was stormy; he clashed with CEO
Michael
Eisner, who didn't share Ovitz's penchant for delegation. Ovitz also
racked
up a $6 million tab for various expenses ranging from renovating his
office, buying
Lakers tickets, and purchasing a BMW. It quickly became obvious that
Ovitz wasn't
going to be a great fit at Eisner's Disney, so the board terminated
his contract
after just 16 months. While Ovitz put in more work that Alan Fishman
did at WaMu,
he also received a lot more cash: a severance package of stock and
cash that was
worth around $100 million at the time. As Disney's stock price rose,
though,
so did the value of the package; at one point Ovitz's take might have
been as
much as $140 million for those 16 months of work.
>
>2. Billy Dee Williams
>Critics raved about Aaron Eckhart's turn as Harvey Dent in this summer's
The Dark Knight, and most couldn't help but mention that it was a
marked improvement
over Tommy Lee Jones' campy portrayal of Two-Face in 1995's Batman
Forever.
However, Jones wasn't the only man to portray Dent in that run of
Caped Crusader
films. Billy Dee Williams had the role of Dent in Tim Burton's 1989
film Batman.
Although the role was a fairly minor one in that film, Williams
allegedly took the
part with the understanding that he would reprise the character in a
sequel in which
Two-Face would be one of Batman's antagonists. To this end he had a
pay-or-play
clause inserted in his contract that basically assured that if the
Harvey Dent/Two-Face
character appeared in a future Warner Bros. Batman film, Williams
would play the
role. If the director chose to cast another actor in the part, the
studio would
have to cough up a buyout to Williams.
>
>In the end, that's exactly what happened: when Tim Burton left the series'
helm, Joel Schumacher took over and wanted to cast Jones in the part.
Williams received
a cash buyout to not be in Batman Forever, a deal most of the
principals in the
critical disaster probably wish they'd been offered themselves.
>
>3. Carl Pavano
>When a professional baseball player signs a new deal, he's pretty much guaranteed
to pull in the cash regardless of whether or not he plays. If you want
proof, just
mention the name Carl Pavano to New York Yankees fans and watch as
their faces contort
in terror. After an early stint in Montreal and three fairly strong
seasons in Florida,
Pavano signed a four-year contract worth $39.95 million with the
Yankees before
the 2005 season. He then got injured. Frequently. The pitcher's ill-
fated tenure
in the Bronx included pretty standard baseball injuries like an elbow
strain and
some problems with his throwing shoulder, but he also had some booboos
that made
Yankees fans wonder if he might be cursed, including two broken ribs
in a car crash
and a disabled-list trip for bruised buttocks. In all, the Yankees
shelled out that
$39.95 million for Pavano to make 26 starts over the four-year span.
To make matters
worse, on the rare occasions when Pavano was healthy he wasn't very
good at
baseball. His best season with the Yankees saw him compile a 4.77 ERA
and allow
1.47 baserunners per inning he pitched. Even Mike Hampton, baseball's
other
pricy-but-fragile starter, has to shake his head at those numbers.
>
>4. Edward McSweegan
>While he may not be as high profile or as well-paid as the other names on this
list, McSweegan may have found the sweetest deal an average guy could
find. In a
coup ripped directly from one of George Costanza's daydreams,
McSweegan claimed
that he did nothing for seven years while employed as a scientist at
the National
Institutes of Health. In 2003 McSweegan told the Washington Post that
he hadn't
really been given any job responsibilities since 1996. Prior to that,
he had been
a researcher and program officer on Lyme disease, but he was removed
from that position
in 1995 for arguing with a sufferers' support group. Although he had a
title
as director of the U.S.-Indo Vaccine Action Program and a list of
nominal duties
associated with that role, McSweegan claimed that he only carried out
the tiniest
of tasks like ordering coffee. In exchange, he received a salary in
the neighborhood
of $100,000.
>
>When the NIH vehemently disputed McSweegan's story that he simply went to
work and did nothing all day, he maintained that he never received any
assignments.
McSweegan would show up, sit in his office, and read to kill time. He
took up fiction
writing to fill his workdays and published a pair of novels he
allegedly wrote while
at the office. He told CBS in an interview that he also joined a
health club near
work "just to sort of break up the day."
>
>The most amazing part of McSweegan's story isn't that he managed to
stay employed through this seven-year period, but that he received
positive performance
reviews from his superiors. He wryly explained to CBS, "I guess I'm
good
at doing nothing."
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