Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Great job of faking, if it is a fake. Are you saying that you are sure that Teresa C. Long, MD, MPH, FS does not exist at all, or if she does exist, that she did not depose the affidavit that has been posted? Nothing would surprise me.
(I make no comment on the opinion expressed in the affidavit, fake or otherwise.)
Without looking at the opinions expressed in the affidavit, it looks like it could be a cleverly done fake. There are at least two Theresa M Long, MDs found with a quick google search - one 'Bureau-Long', and one just 'Long', clearly different people with different locations and specialisations, as well as a Teresa Long, MD, MPH who is clearly a third different person again (different professional interests and specialisation, Teresa C Long).
The Theresa M Bureau-Long appears as a family medicine specialist with qualification dates and locations that align with those claimed in the affidavit you refer to, so it looks like there is someone of that name, with matching qualification dates and apparently working at a clinic at Fort Rucker - it seems you can even book an appointment with her if you so desire! But no MPH. And implying some level of aviation medicine, she is listed as an author of a brief question and answer here
Ask The Flight Surgeon , in the Army Aviation magazine. So I think it is quite possible that someone is using an identity, where there is a real person and location along with multiple similarly named people that will come up in a google search to muddy the waters further. Interestingly there is a link in the affidavit to a website purporting to be created by LTC Theresa M Long MD MPH, that itself links to what appears to be her CV, but the link destination looks suspicious to me and I don't want my PC to be infected with malware from downloading random files and sending everything I do to China or someplace.
In looking up the websites hosting this affidavit, there are at least two distinct different versions out there too! As in, at least one entirely different paragraph, and other different sentences. I haven't done a line by line comparison of the versions I have found, but the fact that this (unsigned) document claiming to be a legal statement exists in two quite different forms that look the same at first glance is a major red flag for me - maybe a way to see which released versions get shared widely, or gain the most traction, to work out where future documents should be released by the creators of it? Is there a Theresa M Bureau-Long in the US Army medical system? It looks like it. But there are enough inconsistencies with the documents - particularly with at least two different versions of them in existence - that I wouldn't automatically think that she is the author of the document in question, I would be very suspicious.