One of the most damning examples of multiple government officials (from two different governments) engaging in psyops against people with #LymeDisease.
Author of email in OP is Edward McSweegan: de facto Chief of Staff for propaganda against #LymeDisease victims.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mc…
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The email came from a FOIA of Paul Mead, longtime CDC officer who started out in the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Unsurprisingly, many of the well known anti-Lyme #Lyme “experts” began their career at EIS.
Next individual appearing on the email is Susan O’Connell, the recipient. Here’s a good introduction to her MO:
sites.google.com/view/lucy-barn…
The email reads:
“Dr. O’Connell:
“Thank you for your note. I sent a copy of it to Dr. Steve Barrett who built and manages the Quackwatch website.”
xoxo
Sweegiepoo
🤮
So she sent something to McSweegan that he forwarded to Quackwatch to attack #LymeDisease pts & their drs.
Sweeg says, “And what we have here is a war. Actually, a disinformation war. An insurgency against evidence-based medicine. It’s time to start shooting back.”
This sick f*ck is talking about attacking people who are chronically ill & disabled from a TICK BITE. #Lyme #EIS
He continues: “I’m vaguely familiar with your informal group to counteract misinformation. Durland Fish mentioned it to me.”
Two things:
1) it was actually a pretty formal group
2) who is Durland Fish?
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#LymeDisease
Sweeg had been perpetrating much of the #psyop for years, so certainly he knew who were his little helpers. One of them, Durland Fish, was the author of the infamous “this battle cannot be won on a scientific front” email.
#LymeDisease
Here’s an unredacted version of that email so you can take note of all the individuals involved in conspiring to gaslight victims of #LymeDisease. This one has Phillip Baker chiming in. He just recently retired as Executive Director of ALDF—a role now played by Andrea Love. 🤢
Dr. Love has made quite a name for herself lately attacking sick & disabled people from behind her keyboard & camera. Having earned her PhD from NYMC, birthplace of #LymeDisease psyops, she seemed destined to take the torch from the OG #Lyme propagandists. Thx, @danaparish
The “informal Lyme group” actually goes waaaaay back to the early 1990s, when the perps had to type & fax or snail mail their BS. This is Lenny Sigal of Yale imploring his fellow #LymeDisease gaslighters to make their psyops more formal.
And here’s evidence that the group had a formal name, with an attempt to obfuscate its formality within its name.
“The Ad Hoc International Lyme Disease Study Group”
Note: all caps indicates “Ad Hoc” is part of the official name. Nice try, Allen Steere, EIS POS.
#LymeDisease
What’s this talk of a letter to Union of Concerned Scientists? Oh, that’s McSweegan’s suggestion for a way to smear #LymeDisease victims among the #science community.
Sweeg’s email continued, comparing people suffering from an incurable & mostly untreatable infection caused by a tick bite, to “Intelligent Design proponents”.
Again with a violent metaphor:
“It’s time to start shooting back.”
#LymeDisease
Backtracking a paragraph or two, Sweeg suggests creating a shared repository for “ammunition” (aka propaganda) to use against people with #LymeDisease. Ah, if only they’d had a Google drive back then…
Does anyone have a better example of a public-private partnership whose mission is to prevent a group of sick people from obtaining a proper diagnosis and effective medical care?
#LongCovid? I guarantee they are using the #Lymedisease #psyop as a model. Let the FOIAs begin.
Still being censored on our side. This shit has to stop.
Naming names.
Barbara J.B. Johnson (CDC)
Durland Fish (Yale)
Phillip Baker (fmr NIH/ALDF)
Edward McSweegan (fmr NIH/ALDF)
Maria Augero-Rosenfeld (NYU/ALDF)
Raymond Dattwyler (NYMC)
Mark Leasure (IDSA)
Donna McKenna (NYMC)
Continued…
#LymeDisease
More:
Jose Munoz (VCU/Former Chief-ID, Children’s & Women’s Phys of Westchester
Robert Nadelman (fmr Westchester Medical Center)
John Nowakowski (Westchester Medical Center)
Ira Schwartz (NYMC)
Gary Wormser (NYMC/ALDF)
Allen Steere (Mass General/ALDF)
Continued…
#LymeDisease
More:
Arthur Weinstein (fmr NYMC, ALDF founder) see his lovely poems attached 🙄 medclass67.com/Reunion50Art_W…
Bettina Wilske (U of Munich)
Eugene Shapiro (Yale/ALDF)
Franc Strle (U of Ljubljana)
Gerold Stanek (dead) link.springer.com/article/10.100…
More…
#LymeDisease
More:
Hank Feder (UConn)
Harvey Artsob (PHAC)
Jerry Green (fmr Danbury Hospital)
Johan Bakken (fmr UMinn-Duluth)
John Halperin (NYU)
Juan Salazar (CT Children’s)
Justin Radolf (UConn)
Lawrence Zemel (UConn) ctmirror.org/2019/12/13/tre…
More…
#LymeDisease
More:
Linda Bockenstedt (Yale)
Mark Klempner (UMass)
Muhammad Morshed (U of British Columbia)
Paul Auwaerter (John’s Hopkins/ALDF)
Peter Krause (Yale)
Richard Porwancher (Robert Wood Johnson Med Ctr)
Robert Smith (Tufts)
Rosalie Trevejo (UC Berkeley)
#LymeDisease
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More:
Steve Dumler (U of Maryland)
Susan O’Connell (Health Protection Agency, Southampton UK)
Sunil Sood (Cohen Children’s/IDSA)
Susan Wong (NY State Dept of Health)
Tom Draper (med advisor to City of Danbury)
#LymeDisease
More…
More:
Volker Fingerle (Natl Reference Center for Borrelia, Germany)
William Agger (Gundersen Lutheran)
Paul Mead (CDC)
Paul Cleary (Yale)
Nice resource—kudos to the author:
sites.google.com/view/lyme-mons…
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