U.S. Doctors to study "Morgellons" disease

[Zarathustra]

Interesting article:

U.S. to Study "Morgellons" disease to determine if it is in fact a real disease or or just a psychiatric disorder.

According to what I had previously read on the subject, this is supposed to be a plainly psychiatric disorder.

The fact that the push for the study in California was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein doesn't exactly scream of credibility either.

"MORGELLON'S DISEASE"

 

[madurobob]

The fact that the push for the study in California was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein doesn't exactly scream of credibility either.

Yes, by all means please do insert your political opinion into your OP about the CDC deciding to study a mysterious disease (or mental disorder). Thats a sure-fire way to avoid a derail.

 

[SteveGrenard]

There is at least one other thread on this subject already, over 290 posts in length
and currently bumped:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3346492#post3346492e

 

[robinson]

Spam!

 

[Zarathustra]

Yes, by all means please do insert your political opinion into your OP about the CDC deciding to study a mysterious disease (or mental disorder). Thats a sure-fire way to avoid a derail.

No insert of political opinion here:

The good California Senator has lengthy and well documented history of Woo support.
If it was taken as such, I apologize.

 

[madurobob]

No insert of political opinion here:

The good California Senator has lengthy and well documented history of Woo support.
If it was taken as such, I apologize.

Yep - can't argue with that. She is, however, the CA Senator and northern CA appears to be in a Morgellons epidemic to hear the CDC tell it ("more than a dozen calls a week for well over a year" along with "...northern California, the source of many of the reports of Morgellons."). Woo or not, its politically appropriate for her to ask someone to look into it.... especially if it means a government grant to a California institution.

Thats what Senators are supposed to do, right? Channel government spending to their constituents?

Personally, I suspect its a real disease created accidentally in LLNL while performing tests on invisible bigfoot with Stephen Hawking...

Sorry - I've been in that thread too long I guess...

 

[Piscivore]

Maybe it's the Morgellons that make the bigfeet invisible. That could explain a lot of "missing" person's cases- they are still there, but no one can see them!

 

[madurobob]

Maybe it's the Morgellons that make the bigfeet invisible. That could explain a lot of "missing" person's cases- they are still there, but no one can see them!

Oh. my. god.

Thats brilliant. Bigfoot are people! They've been infected with Morgellons and it has turned them invisible and made them agoraphobic. Whatever you do, don't tell Historian.

Oh, damn, Star Trek TNG already did that one....