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Originally Posted by CraigD
I think Pogue is referring to “skeptics” as the MDs and others who assert that “morgs” (as interested people appear to abbreviate them) are ordinary fibers from the patients’ surroundings. It wouldn’t make sense for him to be referring to people who claim morgs are not ordinary fibres, since he’s agreeing with them that they are not.
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Right. I reversed it in my post.
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In any case, I think the CDC/Kaiser study is the right way to address the question. Law enforcement forensic experts like Pogue are not necessarily better equipped, following procedures that are in many ways as narrow-purpose/goal-oriented as those available to clinicians (as well as being terribly poorly peer supervised and reviewed). Forensic experts’ goals are to assist police and court officers with prosecuting and convicting the correct people.
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That is a good point. But of the people in the position to determine fiber origin, I dont think you can argue that the fbi national database is ill-equipt, and probably has more data than any other source. I really cant blame people for looking outside of the medical community for answers to the question, what are these fibers?
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I get the impression that, like many medical professionals, you tend to consider psychiatric illness to be somehow less “legitimate” than purely physical illness. I don’t think this is the true – good caregivers understand, I think, that mental illness is as real and important as illness in people of impeccable sanity. Scientifically understanding the real cause of a condition such as Morgellons, and being able support the explanation with well-controlled scientific data, is an essential first step in its effective treatment, whether that treatment is psychiatric or otherwise.
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I dont consider mental health issues less legitimate. What bothers me is the seeming tendency to label everything out of a certain circle of 'typical' as a mental health issue. For example, before lymes disease was in the news a person who lived locally where I grew up was labeled with having 'mental health issues' because doctors could not determine the cause of his pain. He went through alot of hell before someone else, miles away and years later figured out the answer.
What good does that do for those who legitimally suffer from mental health issues?
And what happens to the spouse/parent/friend who sides with the patient who resists the label assigned when medicine cannot answer the question? I can answer that. Co-dependent. Enabler. blah blah blah.
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Science, such as will be done in the coming months and years by the CDC and Kaiser, is, I’m strongly convinced, the most effective tool we have in finding the truth, and best helping the ill of all kinds.
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I agree with this. But science has resisted helping, exploring, discovering because the fibers dont grow in a petri dish.
I had never heard of Morgellons until the day I posted this in hypo. But I wasnt even thru the first page of the abc news article before the memory of what my ex experienced flooded back into mind. It may be that what he suffered with was in his head. Thats what I used to think. But now I have reason to be skeptical of that diagnosis. Skeptical, not convinced. Now I am back to the 'geez, i dunno' when I prefer to have the answer.
