Talk:Edward McSweegan

message: Hi.  This is the talk page for.... Please advise as to how to format the footnotes that I have included  for some of his many publications.  I have verified that there is one living in Maryland.
As to whether there is a different authoring papers on  similar topics-- I leave this to be answered through debate and facts.
Thank you
Freyfaxi 12:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment 1

message: This entry was not authorized or authored by Edward McSweegan.  The writer of this error-filled page is identified as freyfaxi@...deleted..., a self-described Lyme disease Activist obsessed with the notion that Lyme disease—caused by the tick-borne bacterium, ‘’Borrelia burgdorferi’’—is actually some kind of engineered bioweapon.  Lyme activists have a long history of propagating fantastic fantasies and conspiracy theories through the Internet, and harassing scientists and physicians who disagree with their opinions and delusions (NYT Magazine, June 17, 2001).  Some of these activists have been jailed; others apparently have been placed in psychiatric hospitals for a time, though obviously not long enough.  
In any case, the information below is inaccurate.  This should not come as a surprise when an online encyclopedia allows vandals, children, conspiracy nuts and the mentally ill to write and edit entries.  Until this entry can be removed completely, I have made some corrections to illustrate just how farcical are this page and its author.
Emcsweegan 17:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment 2

message: What the hell is wrong with you people?  Bored?  Unemployed?  Can't afford enough medication?
Emcsweegan 23:28, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment 3

message: I've removed the following rant from the article:
’’’Edward McSweegan’’’ did not approve or author this entry.  He has no interest in being part of an online source of transient, inaccurate gossip compiled by anonymous and irresponsible vandals, adolescents, and busybodies.
In keeping with the 
Wikipedia tradition, some of material below is dated and therefore inaccurate.  In addition, all of the material was lifted, without permission, from the IOM and NIAID websites.  Yet, this is a huge improvement over the original entry, which was so full of inaccuracies and distortions that every sentence had to be corrected and referenced.  That edited entry has since been removed by Wikipedia’s nameless guardians of digital fluff.
Like the guy standing before a firing squad who says, “I’m flattered by the attention,” I have similar feelings about Wikipedia’s insistence that I be included in their compilation of junk information authored by high schoolers, pseudo-intellectuals, fake experts, crackpots, and online stalkers.
You can only be put before a firing squad once, but Wikipedia offers endless rounds of entries, edits, revisions, rewrites, updates, clarifications, addendums, supplements and postscripts, on and on, into the endless future.  At least they spelled my name right.
Studerby 04:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: material removed from article

message: Why?  It's true.  None of this online crap was approved or authored by me (EMS).  Why do I have to be listed on this site?  I did, however, send copies of these latest Wiki entries to various friendly reporters trying to get them interested in doing another story on Wiki as a source of mis- and disinformation and all around junk data.  I also included Wikipedia in a note to the Institute of Medicine suggesting the IOM Forum explore the topic of online disinformation related to infectious disease.
Emcsweegan 13:25, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment 4

message: Hey! Who keeps editing this crap!  What's wrong with you???  Do you really care so much about me?  Who are you?  You keep writing false information about me and its got to stop.  You don't know a goddamn thing about me, about NIH policies, about Lyme disease or anything else.  If I want a Wiki entry I'll write one.  Not some anonymous asshole.
Emcsweegan 17:25, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: coment 5

message: I have requested that all versions of this article prior to today be oversighted.  The original version is, in my opinion, the definition of an attack page, and there seems to be merit to Dr. McSweegan's complaint that this version is still visible.  Blueboy96 01:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done ... faster than I expected.  Hopefully this fixes things.  Blueboy96 01:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Good call, I would have done that, but was unaware that there was a formal process for it (should've guessed and gone hunting for it, mea culpa, mea culpa); it looks like all the revisions before ThuranX's stub version are gone, which is a good thing. Studerby 01:55, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oversight requested 

message: (Note: Section heading was "Removal of NIH BIO on McSweegan violates Wikipedia guideline below.  Thanks.  Please explain why the BIO information was removed.... I will continue to re-insert it until an explanation is given.. thanks" but I changed it as that's entirely too long a section heading.  --ElKevbo 19:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To whom are you talking and what are you talking about?  --ElKevbo 19:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

text: My only comment related to the NIH bio is that it's not at all integrated into the article and just tacked onto the end.  The information in the bio should be extracted and placed in the appropriate places in the article with the NIH page cited as a reference.  Otherwise it may be deleted simply as an editorial decision.  --ElKevbo 20:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of NIH BIO