# Debunking the Debunker: Mick West, Morgellons Watch, and Twenty Years of Unanswered Questions

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Podcast: [More Morgellons](https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841)
Published: 2026-03-21T02:08:41+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/more-morgellons/episodes/Debunking-the-Debunker-Mick-West--Morgellons-Watch--and-Twenty-Years-of-Unanswered-Questions-e3gosvs
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## Resource

Mick West co-founded Neversoft Entertainment, programmed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, retired from Activision in 2003, and then did something nobody has ever forensically examined: he built Morgellons Watch, a website dedicated to convincing the public that Morgellons disease is a delusion. He wrote over 100 articles under the pseudonym “Michael.” He edited the Wikipedia Morgellons article under a second pseudonym, “Herd of Swine,” while lobbying for his own site to be cited as a credible independent source. His Wikipedia account was flagged for sockpuppetry. The site accumulated roughly 12,000 comments from 88 registered users — an average engagement rate of 20+ comments per user — on a condition mainstream medicine had already dismissed. The site is still live in 2026. West says he lost interest around 2012. This episode applies the same forensic standards to the counter-narrative that Uninvestigated has applied to the Morgellons Research Foundation. If the MRF’s IRS 990 filings, defense-connected board members, indicted grant recipient, and vanished 12,000-family patient registry warranted investigation, then the debunking apparatus that ran in parallel deserves identical scrutiny. Crystal examines the cost-benefit problem: why a financially independent retired programmer with no medical or scientific training sustained a complex content operation for years on a single niche medical condition. She maps the pseudonym architecture: “Michael” on Morgellons Watch, “Herd of Swine” on Wikipedia, Mick West everywhere else — three identities, three platforms, one narrative project. She traces the timeline convergence: Morgellons Watch launched in April 2006, the exact month Congressional pressure toward a CDC investigation reached critical mass. And she identifies the open foren…

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