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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoax Photo Database, the Hoax Forum, and the Hoaxipedia.
RUDE ROVERThe Christmas dog with no class! He sings and toots Jingle Bells.
INFLATABLE TREEWho needs the hassle of a real Christmas tree?
FARTING SANTAGo ahead and pull his finger!
Morgellons Disease: Is It Real?
Sufferers of Morgellons disease complain of invisible parasites biting their skin. And they get skin lesions from which sprout strange fibers. And mysterious black spore-like specks appear on their skin. Cases of this strange disease seem to be spreading, especially in the Bay area. One theory is that it has something to do with Lyme disease. Or it may be a case of mass delusion. The medical community seems to think it's mass delusion. Most people who show up complaining of these symptoms get diagnosed with 'delusional parasitosis', which is a psychological problem in which people imagine that they're infested by parasites. Not having any medical qualifications at all, I won't weigh in on whether this is a real disease or mass delusion, but some of the behavior of the patients does sound suspiciously bizarre. Take the case of Theresa Blodgett:She gathers up the black specks, the mysterious fibers and the small, fuzzy 'cocoons' she finds on her skin and around her home. She tapes the macabre samples to typing paper, but she said no doctor will analyze the collection. Physicians who glance at the specimens dismiss the lot as stray hairs, clothing fibers, scabs and other common household debris, she said.
So either she really is suffering from something and is desperately but unsuccessfully trying to get doctors to pay attention to her, or she's obsessively collecting house dust and stray flecks of dirt and convincing herself that these things are parasites attacking her. (Thanks to 'K' for the links)
Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Feb 10, 2005 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 570
Category: Health/Medicine, Psychology
Category: Health/Medicine, Psychology
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Rod is an open-minded person.
A little stubborn, but just enough to make him a very intersting...I would say "soul"...would that offend????
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 06:36 PMA little stubborn, but just enough to make him a very intersting...I would say "soul"...would that offend????
Wouldn't it be COOL to be the one discovering something instead of running to a book for the answer!!!!!!
I WOULD LOVE, I SAY, LOVE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TYPE OF FACILITY THAT I NEED!!!!
I WILL BE WORKING ON THAT PROBLEM TOMMOROW. In the mean time, I only have what I've got to work with and that is free-thought process.
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 06:39 PMI WOULD LOVE, I SAY, LOVE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TYPE OF FACILITY THAT I NEED!!!!
I WILL BE WORKING ON THAT PROBLEM TOMMOROW. In the mean time, I only have what I've got to work with and that is free-thought process.
1. It's already published...it's on the WEB for crying out loud!!!!!!!!!!!! 
2. COMMONLY found, 'tis true!!! Read this article again. S.M. bacteria are NOT supposed to be able to get past "host" defenses.
3. I CONCUR. Bacteria and viruses will mutate to MAKE SURE THEY LIVE. This is a WELL KNOWN, COMMONLY KNOWN MEDICAL FACT, as common as s.m. itself!!!
I have to PROVE to my daughter now that she MUST SLEEP.
BBL...
4. My congressman, John Tanner-D, TN, told me 4 days ago that the CDC basically does not recognize a "new" disease until "enough people are found to have it". He told me that at this point the only way to "make" the medical community listen is to gain more exposure on t.v., newspaper, basically main-stream media.
"Whether they take it seriously is judged by them." Are "they" the "god" of medicine? Judges by which the entire world must look to first in order to make something real that isn't?
5. No conspiracy here that I see. I DO see different microbiologists recommending 3 different drugs, all with limited success.
6. I AGREE.
The quote is what I hear doctors tell patients who have something wrong with them but they don't know what. Instead of 'fessing up and saying I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS, SO YOU MUST BE DELUSIONAL, is what I am seeing a lot of.
Or, they are choosing to say, I WOULD RATHER BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING THAN SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BECAUSE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SMARTER THAN THAT. Remember my post about I couldn't unrinate??? Remember I told you that doctor told me to seek psychiatric care because HE COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH ME? I wonder if doctor's egos are being "threatened"???
Hmmm...what if it's not a "delusional thing" but an "ego thing" with doctors. Although I do think the doctor that told me he didn't believe in Fibromyalgia is EXTREMELY egotistical. I saw him last night while I was out getting my mom some food. He saw me and he turned his head so fast I thought surely he had given himself whiplash!
His wife noticed it too. She asked him what was wrong. He never looked back my way.
Apology accepted.
One thing I would like to know is what you think about this doctor telling me that I didn't have a PROVEN disease because he didn't believe in it. What would you have said to him if you had been in my shoes???
I am not sure if you live in the U.S. If not just say, don't have to tell me where you are.
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:11 PM 2. COMMONLY found, 'tis true!!! Read this article again. S.M. bacteria are NOT supposed to be able to get past "host" defenses.
3. I CONCUR. Bacteria and viruses will mutate to MAKE SURE THEY LIVE. This is a WELL KNOWN, COMMONLY KNOWN MEDICAL FACT, as common as s.m. itself!!!
I have to PROVE to my daughter now that she MUST SLEEP.
BBL...
4. My congressman, John Tanner-D, TN, told me 4 days ago that the CDC basically does not recognize a "new" disease until "enough people are found to have it". He told me that at this point the only way to "make" the medical community listen is to gain more exposure on t.v., newspaper, basically main-stream media.
"Whether they take it seriously is judged by them." Are "they" the "god" of medicine? Judges by which the entire world must look to first in order to make something real that isn't?
5. No conspiracy here that I see. I DO see different microbiologists recommending 3 different drugs, all with limited success.
6. I AGREE.
The quote is what I hear doctors tell patients who have something wrong with them but they don't know what. Instead of 'fessing up and saying I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS, SO YOU MUST BE DELUSIONAL, is what I am seeing a lot of.
Or, they are choosing to say, I WOULD RATHER BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING THAN SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BECAUSE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE SMARTER THAN THAT. Remember my post about I couldn't unrinate??? Remember I told you that doctor told me to seek psychiatric care because HE COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH ME? I wonder if doctor's egos are being "threatened"???
Hmmm...what if it's not a "delusional thing" but an "ego thing" with doctors. Although I do think the doctor that told me he didn't believe in Fibromyalgia is EXTREMELY egotistical. I saw him last night while I was out getting my mom some food. He saw me and he turned his head so fast I thought surely he had given himself whiplash!
His wife noticed it too. She asked him what was wrong. He never looked back my way.
Apology accepted.
One thing I would like to know is what you think about this doctor telling me that I didn't have a PROVEN disease because he didn't believe in it. What would you have said to him if you had been in my shoes???I am not sure if you live in the U.S. If not just say, don't have to tell me where you are.
Like, what day and/time is it where you are now?
I don't think that doctors are scientists in the true meaning of research.
Most all doctors that I know on a personal basis never do research; they read books written by researchers.
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:17 PMI don't think that doctors are scientists in the true meaning of research.
Most all doctors that I know on a personal basis never do research; they read books written by researchers.
Ever take any psych courses?
Ever take philosophy??
I am philisophical but I do believe in God.
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:19 PMEver take philosophy??
I am philisophical but I do believe in God.
According to Dr. William Cosby: "There's always room flagella." Amoeba only one who finds that funny? I'll need to do a chest exam, so if you have a parameceum, it's okay. I won't blush.
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:19 PMWhere do YOU stand on "Global Warming"?
Do you believe there are any government conspiracies, cover-ups?
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:21 PMDo you believe there are any government conspiracies, cover-ups?
It's all about The Council. Right, HH, you fuzzy fomentor of falacious fables? Just don't get him started on The Phalanx. Dude's not right.
Posted by Raoul on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 07:59 PMStep off, Raoul, or you'll never find what your looking for. I'll destroy it before I'll let you use it, I swear. They aren't ready, you fool.
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:03 PMIt's too late. It's in Sector Seven, we know that much. We'll find it, and then you'll be expendable. It's because you love them that you will fail, priest.
Posted by Raoul on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:15 PMDon't force my hand, Raoul. I know things that you don't. I know who The Leb really is, and so will The Council, very soon. The plan will fail without me, and I say when they are ready, got it?
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:24 PMThey won't believe you, and you'll never get to prove it. You know that, don't you? Sidereals... I'll never understand you. Let it begin, then, traitor.
Posted by Raoul on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:34 PMThere's a fungus amungus 
Does anyone have a parasites? I need to borrow them.
(Go easy on me...it's my first play on words publicly...)
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:35 PM Does anyone have a parasites? I need to borrow them.
(Go easy on me...it's my first play on words publicly...)
Try and post now, Raoul. Where was I? oh yeah, Morgellon's... This topic kinda grows on you, and I think we've barely scratched the surface.
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 08:45 PMOne has to be realistic...not being able to find something by available methods in science means nothing to the sick patient who recovers after many weeks/months of appropriate treatment.
http://www.canlyme.com/
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 10:25 PMhttp://www.canlyme.com/
H.H. you've no idea how much surface Morgellons sufferers have scratched!!!
I love the smileys. I love to laugh! I love life!
Posted by jaleenasmom on Sun Mar 06, 2005 at 10:27 PM I love the smileys. I love to laugh! I love life!
hello??????????????????
Posted by jaleenasmom on Mon Mar 07, 2005 at 06:13 PMDon't worry, not gone, just a little busy. Tomorrow I'll post.
Posted by Rod in the land of smarties. on Mon Mar 07, 2005 at 09:53 PM COOL.Okay, I'm north of Montana. Central Time (ha, we never have to change our clocks!)
Anyway, I think that we've both got about all we're going to get out of this exchange. I saw and understood your point of view, and you saw my point of view.
At this point, there will be no agreement. We both know that. I've checked out all I can find on the net about this. I've even exchanged a few emails with a student at the UofS. All she looked up supported my point of view (not really surprising, you're fighting this, you knew what they'd say).
I really actually enjoyed this exchange. Believe it or not, this is the first debate of any sort I've had on the net (and I used computers way back when e-mail meant echo mail, not electronic).
Okay. Psych courses? No, but I've read the first two years of book-work for the university course.
Philosophy? No. I just read whatever intersts me... All kinds of stuff. Particularly intersted in "profiling"... huge fan of John Douglas. I've read the new testament three times (KJV twice, some weird baptist version the third time (it was printed in the late 1800s)), the old testament, the koran, all the "major" religious works... you don't just become an atheist without research (that's why 99% of scientists (physicists, etc, are atheists)). I've read Mein Kampf, several old "magical" books (not the instruction manual type, the philosophical type), and all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff. I once spent 2 and a half months digging through the law library at the university where I used to live. (Did you know that peyote is legal where I live? It's specifically exempt, written right in the criminal code. Not that anyone would ever know unless they stumbled on it.)
Posted by Rod in the land of smarties. on Tue Mar 08, 2005 at 09:26 PMAnyway, I think that we've both got about all we're going to get out of this exchange. I saw and understood your point of view, and you saw my point of view.
At this point, there will be no agreement. We both know that. I've checked out all I can find on the net about this. I've even exchanged a few emails with a student at the UofS. All she looked up supported my point of view (not really surprising, you're fighting this, you knew what they'd say).
I really actually enjoyed this exchange. Believe it or not, this is the first debate of any sort I've had on the net (and I used computers way back when e-mail meant echo mail, not electronic).
Okay. Psych courses? No, but I've read the first two years of book-work for the university course.
Philosophy? No. I just read whatever intersts me... All kinds of stuff. Particularly intersted in "profiling"... huge fan of John Douglas. I've read the new testament three times (KJV twice, some weird baptist version the third time (it was printed in the late 1800s)), the old testament, the koran, all the "major" religious works... you don't just become an atheist without research (that's why 99% of scientists (physicists, etc, are atheists)). I've read Mein Kampf, several old "magical" books (not the instruction manual type, the philosophical type), and all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff. I once spent 2 and a half months digging through the law library at the university where I used to live. (Did you know that peyote is legal where I live? It's specifically exempt, written right in the criminal code. Not that anyone would ever know unless they stumbled on it.)
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