McSweegan's Latest Harassment of Lyme Activist/Victims

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: McSweegan's Latest Harassment of Lyme Activist/Victims

Date: Aug 6, 2008 2:32 AM

See Eddie's stalking, threatening and harassing letter below:
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Dear Eddie,
You ask here for an example of your publicly trashing Lyme victims.
Did you mean in exception to the harassment of the Forschers for which
you were sued?
http://www.actionlyme.org

As regards proof of your harassment, remember the Jan 2001, LYMErix
meeting
in Bethesda when you sat in the back of the room and then posted on
my presentation?
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/090ddaf9f1302db1?&q=submitted+to+FDA+with+supporting+documentation

About which you replied 4 days later:
http://www.actionlyme.org/McSweegan_Stalking_Feb_2001_38a561b9b28962b5.htm

MCSWEEGAN: Actually, it wasn't great. It was a rambling, buzzsaw
critique of
the
Dressler serodiagnostic criteria, with washed out, illegible
black-and-white overheads.


KATHLEEN: They would not let me use
a Power Point presentation.
We had one, I asked. They
said they couldn't.
- - - -

MCSWEEGAN: Worse, it had nothing to do with the topic of
the meeting which was a "Lyme Disease Vaccine Safety Update." I think
the
only thing it accomplished was to remind the audience that 1) easy
access to
scientific and medical information is no substitute for real knowledge
and
2) "some of these people are nuts."

=========


http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm

I'm thinking, um, the entire crime was about the Dearborn
standard, because, after all, I was a real scientist working
in a real lab, unlike yourself, who rose to the top by
trashing others.

Today I dedicate the Lyme world to you:
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm

And Paul Duray.

A REAL scientist.

And your stupidity, and how your stupidity and crimes
affected every major disease in the world.

And you know what Sweeg? We think there was a fourth
member of the original cabal:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm

And we think it was you.

Why don't you tell us, for once and for all, Sweeg:
How in the world did you come up with such a stupid idea
as a vaccine for Relapsing fever?

http://www.actionlyme.org/BARBOUR_MUTANTS_1992.htm


Kathleen M. Dickson
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Dear Mrs. DeRose:

I saw your publicly posted letter to your congressional
representatives.

Your efforts to suggest that my recent column on Lyme disease was the
product of
federal dollars, federal time, and federal employment are deceitful.
Why was it
necessary to repeatedly try to identify me as a �permanent federal
employee,� a
�public employee,� a �federal employee in charge of the public�s
health,� a
�lifetime appointment to the public payroll,� and a �civil servant and
federal
employee?� Or to state that my part-time hobby as a freelance writer
is being
underwritten by taxpayer dollars? Are you a fool or just a liar?

I work for the Fed 40 hours a week, five days a week. The rest of my
time and
my life are my own. What I do in my house on Saturday morning or on
vacation is
not the business of the federal bureaucracy or you.

As for my column being �plastered all over the internet,� well, that�s
the work
of LymeNut members and, by extension, you for posting your letter,
which will
likely encourage others to read the column and pass it around. As far
as I
know, my column is posted to the web site of the paper, which usually
requires a
subscription or fee to access. Don�t blame me for circulating a
paragraph of
something you didn�t happen to like. Complain to LymeNut and the Lyme
Mafia.

As a �historian� you should know the value of references and other
source
material in writing. You didn�t include any in your letter. Would
you mind
providing me and other readers with some dates and examples of my
having
�repeatedly insulted many members of the Lyme community?� Also, who
are the
members of the �Lyme community?� Some examples of my �insulting
rhetoric� also
would be helpful, as well as some examples of where on the Internet I
�spread�
this rhetoric. Finally, you should quickly write to your
congressional reps to
tell them your earlier reference to my having no work is five years
old and not
a current event. (What bothers you more as a taxpayer, that five
years ago I
had little day-to-day work in the bureaucracy�ironically caused by a
Lyme
activist�or that I had the nerve to ask for more work?)

I doubt the Congress has any interest in investigating what I do in my
house
after work. What I do at work has been investigated. Check with
Senator
Grassley�s office if you�re curious. If I was doing anything illegal
or
inappropriate, be assured that I can indeed be fired. I�m not a
federal judge.
I don�t have a lifetime appointment.

Good luck with converting that ABD to PhD. Mind if I send a copy of
your letter
to your committee members? I still know a few profs at the U. of
Maine,
including a dean.


Edward McSweegan, Ph.D.