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.
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:
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
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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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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.
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?
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:
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)
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 friends, the rollout of Igenex’s new “FDA-cleared!!!” #Lyme test makes my Borrelia-infected blood boil, and it should raise the temperature of yours, too.
I’ve been fighting the battle against bogus diagnostics for many years. This move by @igenexlab is sickening.
First of all, see my rough analysis of their publicly available FDA application data.
To summarize briefly:
• still relying on antibody tests for a disease that causes immunosuppression/immune dysfunction
• it only detects IgG antibodies, which does nothing for the diagnosis of early #LymeDisease
• the data don’t support claims of increased sensitivity
My thoughts on the new “FDA cleared!!!” #idart #LymeDisease test from Igenex:
Note we’re *still* talking antibody tests for a disease that causes immunosuppression/immune dysfunction. AND it only measures IgG (not an early Lyme test).
“The iDart Lyme IgG ImmunoBlot Kit is intended to detect antibodies to LSA and multiple other B. burgdorferi antigens following a ***modified two-tier test methodology.***”
I.e. you still have to take another test to satisfy CDC, IDSA, dumb doctors.
“Positive results from the Dart Lyme IgG ImmunoBlot Kit are supportive evidence for the presence of antibodies and exposure to B. burgdorferi.”
EXPOSURE. They can still tell you (with a straight face) it’s a past infection.
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Now take a look at all that was known and admitted about #LymeDisease at the time (1986).
• “The spirochete has also been found in deerflies, horseflies and mosquitos.”
• “…birds may serve an important role in
long distance tick dispersal.”
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• “As many as two-thirds of the people that become infected by this spirochete are unaware of the tick bite because of the painless bite and the small size (several mm) of the nymphal stage.”
• “A systemic illness ensues due to the lymphatic and hematogenous spread of [Bb]”
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“The early phase of the illness often consists of the ECM, headache, fatigue, muscle and joint aches, stiff neck and
chills and fever. This phase of the disease may be followed by neurologic, joint or cardiac abnormalities.”
#LymeDisease
US Patent 4,721,617 filed Aug 14, 1986 and assigned Jan 26, 1988: Vaccine Against #LymeDisease
Inventor: Russell C. Johnson
Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
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Lots to see here.
Firstly, “This invention was made with Government support under Public Health Service Grant AM 34733. The Government has certain rights in this invention.”
#LymeDisease
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Now take a look at all that was known and admitted about #LymeDisease at the time (1986).
• “The spirochete has also been found in deerflies, horseflies and mosquitos.”
• “…birds may serve an important role in
long distance tick dispersal.”
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Some of the “data” MarDx provided in their IgM Western blot application to the FDA. (MarDx WBs were 1st to be cleared after infamous #Dearborn conference.) A few interesting tidbits in here.
My favorite: For their sensitivity study, MarDx included specimens of physician-diagnosed cases “relative to #LymeDisease case definition.” These undoubtedly would have been pre-screened arthritis samples from the Triangle of Death, Steere/Wormser/Dattwyler. #LymeDisease
I can’t even imagine anyone today getting away with using “physician-diagnosed” samples to validate a #LymeDisease diagnostic device’s sensitivity. The crooks would surely protest. I’ve looked @ a lot of 510Ks & have never seen this before.