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'Seizure May Have Led'
To Dr. Wiley's Death Fall -
HOG WASH!!!

From Patricia Doyle, PhD
dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com>
1-15-2

First theory, a 'tractor trailer passing by' knocked Dr. Wiley off balance and made him fall into the river below.
 
Now we hear that it might have been a seizure that made him fall.
 
This reminds me of the UK Classical Swine Fever and FMD excuses. A ham sandwhich, not a ham sandwhich. Chinese take out, then, not Chinese take out caused the outbreaks.
 
Plain ole HOG WASH!
 
Isn't it strange that we did not hear about the damage to Dr. Wiley's rental car, or about a history of seizures in prior news stories.
 
BTW the tractor trailer draft was a pitiful excuse. If it was a truck passing, the driver would have noticed Dr. Wiley, or at least the car.
 
Dr. Wiley was not drunk, so they better not try to pass that one off on us. It sickens me to see a great man like Dr. Wiley, murdered and belittled. It REALLY angers me.
 
I want to know how he died and who caused it.
 
It sounds like Dr. Wiley might have been edged over by another car seeking to slow him down or stop him. Could have caused him to hit a sign. I think Dr. Wiley was trying to get away from a car that was seeking to run him off the road. He managed to stop and a struggle ensued. Dr. Wiley might have sustained some of the injuries in a fight for his life. He was probably dead before he hit the water, dead before he went over the bridge. Murdered!
 
I am taking this very personally. A great man like Dr. Wiley, murdered. The man was a brilliant researcher and had a very analytical mind. He would not get out of the car and teeter near the edge of the bridge if he was having a seizure. He was a man of common sense and sharp mind. Why would he stop in the middle of the bridge to inspect minor damage to the vehicle? There has to be better theories then the ones that the press and Govt. are suggesting.
 
Patricia
 
 
Seizure May Have Led To Scientist's Death Fall
By Thomas Jordan
jordan@gomemphis.com
January 15, 2002
 
An eminent Harvard scientist might have been disoriented from a seizure when he accidentally fell to his death from the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, the county medical examiner said Monday. Dr. O. C. Smith said Don C. Wiley had a history of seizures - two or three major episodes a year - that was not known outside his family and a small circle of friends. Smith said there is no way to know exactly what happened on the bridge the morning of Nov. 16. But he outlined a scenario in which a disoriented Wiley had a couple of minor accidents on the bridge.
 
Stopping to inspect the damage to his rental car, Wiley could have fallen into the river as a result of the seizure, the shaking and bucking of the six-lane bridge, or even a blast of wind from a fast-moving tractor-trailer, Smith said.
 
The medical examiner said he ruled out suicide because Wiley had demonstrated no suicidal tendencies. He also said there was physical evidence that the research scientist's plunge into the river was not consistent with someone who purposely jumped.
 
Wiley's car was found abandoned in a westbound lane of the bridge at 4 a.m. Nov. 16. The key was in the ignition and the gas tank full.
 
The disappearance of Wiley, a prize-winning biochemist, stirred international interest. He had done research on dangerous viruses, including Ebola, and that led to speculation in some news media that Wiley might have been abducted by bioterrorists.
 
His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River 300 miles south of Memphis.
 
Smith said there was minor impact damage at the front of Wiley's car on both sides. The hubcap for the right front wheel also was missing and has not been found.
 
Yellow paint scrapes found on the 2001 white Mitsubishi are similar to the paint on bridge construction signs.
 
"From this it may be concluded that Dr. Wiley had two mishaps with his vehicle, perhaps indicating the reason why he was stopped on the bridge," Smith said. "The two mishaps may also be an indicator of some physical impairment."
 
Smith said Wiley, 57, had suffered from "an infrequent and poorly understood seizure disorder" for years. He said Wiley kept the condition private and wasn't being treated for it.
 
"It was prone to occur when he was stressed, fatigued or had taken alcohol," Smith said. "It would be manifested by episodes of agitation, which he tried to control by himself."
 
Wiley was in Memphis to attend a two-day meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He was last seen in the lobby of The Peabody, where he had attended a banquet for the board, about four hours before he disappeared.
 
Smith said it will never be known if the seizures, lack of sleep, fatigue or the effects of alcohol contributed to what happened on the bridge.
 
Toxicology studies weren't complete, but "alcohol has been identified at levels suggesting impairment," Smith said at a press conference at the Police Department.
 
However, just how much Wiley had been drinking will never be clear, Smith said, because alcohol levels tend to rise after death because of fermentation and diffusion.
 
Based on the police investigation and the injuries to Wiley's body there was no indication he was slain, Smith said. That left the question of whether Wiley took his life or died accidentally.
 
Smith said an extensive review of Wiley's medical records and his behavior "are totally devoid of any prior suicide thoughts or action."
 
Other than the seizure disorder, Smith said, there are "no identifiable life stressors or crises out of the norm in Dr. Wiley's life."
 
Further, Smith said his office's experience with suicides from the Hernando DeSoto indicate that people jumping generally do so with enough force to clear a box beam that projects 38 inches along the length of the bridge 12d feet below the top guardrail.
 
It's likely Wiley hit the beam, cracking the third button of his shirt before entering the water, Smith said.
 
"This subtle physical finding combined with the absolute lack of suicidal indicators is conclusive," Smith said. "The possibility of Dr. Wiley's death having been a suicide was carefully considered and rejected."
 
Wiley entered the Mississippi River by going over a guardrail that is 43b inches above the roadbed. At the foot of the guardrail is a 10-inch-high curb. Smith said if the 6-foot-3 Wiley were standing on the curb trying to assess the damage to his car, the guardrail would have come to his mid-thigh, "14 inches below his center of gravity."
 
"Instability for any reason could precipitate a fall," he said.
 
Wiley fell 135 feet into the 55-degree Mississippi. Smith said Wiley hit the surface on his right side at about 60 mph after a fall of less than three seconds.
 
Wiley didn't drown; he was killed by the fall. Smith said he suffered several fractures, including ones to the neck and spine. His chest was crushed.
 
Police don't know why Wiley was on the bridge headed toward West Memphis. And they don't know his whereabouts during the four hours he was last seen and his car was found.
 
The scientist's father, Bill Wiley of Memphis, said his son stayed with him for several days while he was here.
 
- Thomas Jordan: (901) 529-5880
 
 
 
Comment
 
From Jim Mortellaro, PhD
Jsmortell@aol.com
1-15-2
 
Hog wash!
 
It's what We The People have been given to accept of late. Seems that the transition from Land of the Free and Home of the Brave has become the Land of the Fee and Home of the Knave. And the Knave's are not US. The knaves are our leaders.
 
"Leaders?" Now that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. How about another oxymoron. "News!" Yet another. "Media!" Oh and how about "Congress," "Senate" and the "Military!" Knaves to a man, woman and child.
 
We've become lemmings, non-thinking lemmings who have somehow become (and for the life of me I cannot compute how, when or why this occurred), we've become intellectual midgets (sorry, that ain't PC but quite frankly, I just don't give a damn!).
 
How the Citizens of this Nation can believe the pap they are receiving from our government is a testament to our stupidity and to our _very_ short memories. Remember, for a moment, the cars which sported the American Flag, after the WTC tragedy? Count now, the number of automobiles doing the same. And the number of homes. The difference is both amazing as well as telling. Short memories.
 
Perhaps we are too busy living. Worrying over placing bread on the table and paying the mortgage, over keeping our kids from becoming heroin addicts or alcoholics. Perhaps the worries which we fret over are not the worries we should be fretting over. Maybe. The fact of the matter is that if one looks at NAZI propaganda and the garbage coming from countries such as Iraq, Pakistan and India, from the Taliban and others, We The People, if we were thinking people, would have long ago reached the conclusion that there appears to be no difference. Propaganda. Death bed lies as an art form? Maybe. But what is the effect of such on those of us who claim alien abduction, UFO sightings? How indeed. It diminishes the validity of such claims. And that, dear readers, is wrong. There is no excuse for lies. No excuse for disinformation, even if acknowledged to be such ... after the fact. The damage is already done. The needle and the damage done.
 
And if we go back to Viet Nam and Korea, Desert Strom and others and think carefully, using our intellects, we would again realize that this propaganda spewing forth from our 'leaders' and the media, has been worked long and hard toward the final goal of destroying our Constitution, our freedoms and our liberties by a slow and apparently deliberate program of disinformation. We are not the nation or the people we used to be by degree. More's the pity. And the shame. But the shame is not the media's or the government; the shame is ours, for allowing it to happen, to continue and allowing ourselves to be duped so easily.
 
Whether it is gun control or the IRS, whether it is crime or punishment, whether it is war or peace, there is no truth. Just what happened to the leaders of the Taliban? How many have been arrested and brought to trial? Not one. With the sole exception of one dimbulb who got his arss in a sling right here in the good old US of A. And these days, how many times do you hear, "The Search for Bin Laden" on the news? Probably a lot less than a month ago and less still than two months ago.
 
No folks. The war in Afghanistan has resulted in catching no one in Afghanistan, of eliminating terrorism. No! So what was the reason for this war?
 
Please, turn on that dusty intellect and think about it - go figure it out for yourselves. Notice what happened to gas prices during the conflict? Notice what's happening to gas prices now? Down ... then up. There should have been a civil trial of Bin Laden and his henchmen, in open court, with which to decide his guilt ... or less likely, his innocence. But there is not likely to be such a trial. Instead, the subject will, like old soldiers, just ... fade ... away. Just like Bin Laden. He just faded away. Out of earshot of the media, out of mind.
 
The only good thing we have these days is the Internet and people like Jeff Rense, with attention to all aspects of the news, no matter the government's line and slant, no matter the spin which they would desire us to read, hear and adsorb. Adsorb. Like the osmosis of claptrap.
 
This old sod is not an old soldier, just an old citizen, made old by reading Jeff's site. Old because of what I remember and lost. Old because of reading pieces with which to learn. True or not, the perspective is an education in seeing and hearing truth. The truth of diversity, the perspective of seeing the good, the bad and the ugly. The education of using our intellect and judgment. Old because of my anger. Yes, Jeff's made me older than I should be. But it is righteous. Rather that than believe a line of such none sense, that to believe it, is death. No, death is good. It is the dying which is painful and frightening. And such is our present situation ... we are dying. Better to die than to be dying.
 
Jim Mortellaro,
Ph.D.


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