http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/MickWest#User:MickWest
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Herd_of_Swine is a sockpuppet account of http://en.wikilib.com/wiki/User:MickWest . The "Herd of Swine" account appears to be a single-purpose account, for the purpose of violating NPOV on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons and putting
in a http://morgellonswatch.com spin in place of fair and balanced editing.
Note that 'MickWest' had been editing the Morgellons page prior to 4/8/2006, and then user
'Herd of Swine' account is created, and on 4/10/2006, edits the same paragraph previously edited as 'MickWest' -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=47816896
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=47579539
Subsequent to 4/10/2006 'Herd of Swine' continues editing "morgellons" pages, with puppetmaster 'MickWest' account remaining active for editing other subjects.
The reason for this sockpuppetry, is that 'MickWest' runs http://Morgellonswatch.com, and wanted to push the Morgellonswatch POV on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons anonymously -- because Morgellonswatch viewpoint is contentious "hate speech" against Morgellons patients. Sockpuppet 'Herd of Swine' is thus constantly arguing that this disease must be ignored by the medical profession because victims of the disease are all crazy/delusional or making up their symptoms for attention. He and his quackwatch cohorts 'Arthur Rubin' 'JzG' 'Fyslee' 'Thatcher131' and 'Dyanega' have successfully manipulated POV on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons towards this viewpoint, and constantly suppress information and ban users with opposing POV -- that morgellons is an infectious disease. Even subsequent to the announcement of a CDC investigation into the disease -- http://www.cdc.gov/unexplaineddermopathy -- 'Herd of Swine'/MickWest/Morgellonswatch continue to mock patients and libel the doctors researching this disease. Plenty of publications exist to counter the Morgelonswatch POV, but they are suppressed or censored by the Morgellonswatch/quackwatch cabal subverting NPOV: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/11/24-b
http://www.eblue.org/article/PIIS0190962207001958/fulltext http://www.future-drugs.com/doi/abs/10.1586/17469872.2.5.585 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MickWest states "I work in the video game industry – somewhat as a game programmer. I've been doing it for quite some time. I also write articles for Game Developer Magazine. I live in California." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Herd_of_Swine states "Hi, I'm a retired software engineer. Somewhat bored of software, I have varied interests, particularly subjects on the edges of science, and the people involved in them. [...] I have a web site, Morgellons Watch, which reports and discusses matters relating to Morgellons from a skeptical perspective."
Some Morgellons edits from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/MickWest
18:13, 8 April 2006 (?External links - tidy, removed google cache which duplicated a link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=47579539
07:18, 8 April 2006 (rv - prev edit repaced several links with a google cache link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=47524290
05:35, 21 March 2006 (hist) (diff) Talk:Morgellons? (white crystalline granules)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=44773990
05:32, 21 March 2006 (sp)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=44773648
00:43, 9 March 2006 ? (?Controversy and research efforts - Removed cut-and-paste of Free New Mexican article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=42892813
00:38, 9 March 2006(?External links - wikified links)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=42892084
17:17, 25 February 2006 (?Collembola study reaction - link pareidolia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=41187007
17:12, 25 February 2006 (sp)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=41186444
17:11, 25 February 2006 (hist) (diff) Morgellons? (?Symptoms - copyedit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morgellons&diff=prev&oldid=41186378
'Herd of Swine' begins editing in April 2006, just after 'MickWest' ceases to edit
Morgellons. He is seen pushing "delusional parasitosis" POV over the POV that parasitic infections exist and cause real disease in humans on numerous pages: 'Formication' 'Morgellons' 'Delusional parasitosis' 'Medically unexplained physical symptoms' 'Morgellons Research Foundation', etc.
Oldest edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&limit=500&target=Herd+of+Swine
Newest: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Herd+of+Swine
NielsMayer@gmail.com, an independent morgellons researcher, patient and activist has been investigating the links between quackwatch, and morgellonswatch. As a first step, he "outed" the owner of Morgellonswatch.com for the purpose of establishing and serving a defendant in a civil case of "internet hate speech" found on Morgellonswatch.com. Evidence he's posted to http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=rash and Morgellons@yahoogroups.com shows strong
evidence that Morgellonswatch.com's owner "Margellons" is "Mick West" (see below). Meanwhile, http://en.wikilib.com/wiki/User:MickWest sockpuppet account http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Herd_of_Swine admits to this: "I have a web site, Morgellons Watch, which reports and discusses matters relating to Morgellons from a skeptical perspective."
The following three emails provide evidence establishing that Morgellonswatch.com is owned by 'Mick West' and therefore 'Herd of Swine' is a sockpuppet account.
;;Email 1
from Niels P. Mayer
to Morgellons@yahoogroups.com,Morgellons Bayarea
date Nov 4, 2007 7:17 PM
subject [Morgellons] watching morgellonswatch
I noticed that Morgellonswatch linked to a file on my server through http://morgellonswatch.com/2007/10/30/morgellons-disease-the-mystery-unfolds/
(i renamed the file they link to, so as to "break" the link on their page, as I don't want real information from my website being compromised by the
disinformation spewed at morgellonswatch.)
Examining my logs, I'm pretty sure that 208.109.206.115 appears to be the IP address Margellons of Morgellonswatch.com uses. He's obviously not very smart as
he's got his host running wide open:
PORT STATE SERVICE
1/tcp open tcpmux
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
42/tcp filtered nameserver
53/tcp open domain
69/tcp filtered tftp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
111/tcp open rpcbind
135/tcp filtered msrpc
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
143/tcp open imap
161/tcp filtered snmp
162/tcp filtered snmptrap
179/tcp filtered bgp
443/tcp open https
465/tcp open smtps
993/tcp open imaps
995/tcp open pop3s
1080/tcp filtered socks
1241/tcp filtered nessus
1723/tcp filtered pptp
3128/tcp filtered squid-http
3306/tcp open mysql
6666/tcp filtered irc-serv
6667/tcp filtered irc
6668/tcp filtered irc
8080/tcp filtered http-proxy
;;Email 2
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:33:54 -0800
From: "Niels P. Mayer"
To: Morgellons Bayarea ,Morgellons@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Morgellons] Re: watching morgellonswatch
And it looks like we're one step closer to a real name: testinganddebugging.com appears to be Margellons company.
> telnet morgellonswatch.com 25
> Trying 208.109.216.142...
> Connected to morgellonswatch.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-iron.testinganddebugging.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 #1 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:58:58 -0800
> 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
> 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
> gnuvelle-36-~> telnet 208.109.206.115 25
> Trying 208.109.206.115...
> Connected to 208.109.206.115.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-iron.testinganddebugging.com ESMTP Exim 4.68 #1 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:49:36 -0800
> 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
> 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
and furthermore, morgellonswatch.com (208.109.112.142) routes to Margellons machine (208.109.206.115)
> 11 ip-208-109-112-142.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.112.142) 12.644 ms 12.591 ms 12.591 ms
> 12 ip-216-69-188-77.ip.secureserver.net (216.69.188.77) 12.643 ms 12.681 ms 12.519 ms
> 13 ip-208-109-112-6.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.112.6) 12.683 ms 12.886 ms 13.028 ms
> 14 ip-208-109-206-225.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.206.225) 12.606 ms 15.382 ms 15.366 ms
> 15 ip-208-109-206-115.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.206.115) 15.313 ms 15.675 ms 15.685 ms
Searching gives some interesting cached results:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu6Xl6y5HFycATXNXNyoA?p=testinganddebugging.com&y=Search&fr=ush-yp
> #
> Testing and Debugging - " Captions
> Sunday, January 7th, 2007 at 1:24 am. Captions. By mick ... You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ...
> testinganddebugging.com/2007/01/07/zz-php - 12k
> #
So I guess this means Margellons is potentially mick@testinganddebugging.com
-- Niels.
;;Email 3
from Niels P. Mayer
reply-to Morgellons@yahoogroups.com,
to Morgellons@yahoogroups.com,morgellons_bayarea@yahoogroups.com,advocacy@morgellons.org,
cc mick@testinganddebugging.com,holly@hollywest.com,
date Nov 7, 2007 10:11 PM
subject [Morgellons] Re: morgellonswatch creeps Margellons/Mick outed
As a firm believer in "know thy enemy" ....
http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=rash&action=display&thread=1194500546
> from http://whois.domaintools.com/testinganddebugging.com I found
> the following:
>
> http://www.hollymick.com
> http://mickwest.com
> http://Cowboyprogramming.com
>
> "Holly & Mick live in Santa Monica, CA with two dogs named Kramer & Stuart"
>
> His wife's site http://hollywest.com is full of
> hippy-dippy "Peace on Earth" jewelry. I wonder if she knows how
> much "peace" her husband is spreading by running a disifnormation site like http://morgellonswatch.com ??
>
> The following *might* be him:
>
> West, Michael
> 2913 Third St
> Santa Monica, CA 90405-5485
> (310) 452-4507
>
> West, Mick
> Job title: Co-Founder
> Company: Neversoft
> 6041 Variel Ave
> Woodland Hills, CA 91367-3720
>
> Margellons is a creepy Looking dude if you ask me!
(see attached pictures)
-- Niels Mayer
http://nielsmayer.com
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