{"podcast":{"title":"More Morgellons","slug":"more-morgellons-2136841","podcast_index_feed_id":2136841,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/32a378d4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://moremorgellons.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/8395741/8395741-1674001875434-ed992ad354a02.jpg","author":"Crystal Clear","episode_count":429,"summary":"Got the Morgs? You need a laugh. And we need answers about Morgellons Disease.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T00:17:12.655032+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841"},"episode":{"title":"Debunking the Debunker: Mick West, Morgellons Watch, and Twenty Years of Unanswered Questions","slug":"debunking-the-debunker-mick-west-morgellons-watch-and-twenty-years-of-unanswered-questions","published_at":"2026-03-21T02:08:41+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841/debunking-the-debunker-mick-west-morgellons-watch-and-twenty-years-of-unanswered-questions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/more-morgellons/episodes/Debunking-the-Debunker-Mick-West--Morgellons-Watch--and-Twenty-Years-of-Unanswered-Questions-e3gosvs","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4935255777.mp3","summary":"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…","meta_description":"Mick West co-founded Neversoft Entertainment, programmed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, retired from Activision in 2003, and then did something nobody has ever f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":900,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/more-morgellons-2136841/episodes/debunking-the-debunker-mick-west-morgellons-watch-and-twenty-years-of-unanswered-questions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841/debunking-the-debunker-mick-west-morgellons-watch-and-twenty-years-of-unanswered-questions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}