Yuck. The bad taste in my mouth won will take a while to go away, I think, but it is our responsibility as sceptics to keep things as accurate as possible!

Now, the original reason why I was going to comment: I had no idea until reading Dorey’s post that she had any connection with the McCafferys beyond her heading an organisation essentially responsible for their baby’s death. But that Mr Dorey and Mr McCaffery knew one another before the whole debacle started just pushes the irony meter into the uncomfortably-close-to-exploding zone.

“I [Meryl Dorey] have been accused of harassing this grieving family by making this call. It is my assertion however that the official from the NCAHS has not only committed a serious breach of confidentiality by informing a third party that I had contacted him; he in fact, has harassed the McCafferys by calling a grieving family to tell them that I had asked for confirmation of Dana’s diagnosis. What possible reason could he have had for taking this action?”

First, she claims some right of medical privacy to protect her from revealing that she was attempting to violate someone else’s medical privacy. The arrogance of this is overwhelming.

She accuses the people she attempted to suborn of harassment for revealing that she did so to the people whose privacy she was invading. That’s like accusing someones neighbors of harassing them when they call them to inform them that they’ve just spotted you attempting to burgle their house.

Finally, show asks what possible reason they would have for doing this. Maybe to warn them that were being stalked by a psychotic child-murder?

I used to wonder if Meryl Dorey was simply ignorant and misguided. She is clearly evil incarnate.