UFOs, the Bible, nanobots and parasites, oh my! My god. These people just go on adding crazy symptoms all the time. :lulz:
http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1539936
http://www.dldewey.com/morgel.htm
http://www.marslife.com/frass2.htm
http://bibleprobe.com/morgellons.htm
The Mayo Clinic has such a sensitive, gentle way of addressing it: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/morgellons-disease/SN00043
This website is much more blunt: http://morgellonswatch.com/
Oh fucks sake, the Chemtrails people have latched onto it too: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=ke5ES8v-G4bkMJ7pvfEB&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=morgellons+chemtrails&spell=1
I am somewhat surprised that nobody has yet suggested that it's caused by vaccines. That would make it an index of lunatic fringe paranoia.
Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?
I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.
Quote from: LMNO on January 06, 2010, 08:24:57 PM
Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?
I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.
It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on January 06, 2010, 08:18:51 PM
I am somewhat surprised that nobody has yet suggested that it's caused by vaccines. That would make it an index of lunatic fringe paranoia.
Oh, they have. Every type of crazy there is has latched onto Morgellon's. http://morgellons1.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/baculovirus-in-our-vaccines/
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 06, 2010, 08:46:47 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 06, 2010, 08:24:57 PM
Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?
I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.
It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.
See, right there, that makes me suspicious. Speaking as not a father, if my kid had some weird shit working its way out of the kid's skin, they'd be in a hopsital
stat.
Or, they'd be knitting me a new pair of socks. It really depends on the tensile strength of the threads.
Quote from: LMNO on January 06, 2010, 08:51:16 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 06, 2010, 08:46:47 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 06, 2010, 08:24:57 PM
Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?
I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.
It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.
See, right there, that makes me suspicious. Speaking as not a father, if my kid had some weird shit working its way out of the kid's skin, they'd be in a hopsital stat.
Or, they'd be knitting me a new pair of socks. It really depends on the tensile strength of the threads.
The symptoms are usually very consistent with delusions of parasitosis. Delusional patients are notoriously hard to work with because on some level they are afraid of having their delusion challenged, which is also why they tend to reject more practical suggestions of alternate diagnoses. In addition, almost all people who self-diagnose Morgellon's get all of their information from the Internet, and many of the "informational" websites also sell or advertise treatments. It's becoming an industry.
It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 06, 2010, 10:14:49 PM
It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about the Fox News channel.
ZANG!
:rimshot:
Quote from: LMNO on January 07, 2010, 12:52:41 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 06, 2010, 10:14:49 PM
It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about the Fox News channel.
ZANG!
:rimshot:
:lulz: Same thing.