I appreciate his emphasis that people’s suffering is real, and that he didn’t make any claims about the results. I have regained some hope for the science profession.

I’d mentioned before, that, elsewhere, a person posting as “Ursula” stated this as fact:

The fact that many of Dr Amin’s patients were actually previously misdiagnosed and admitted to psychiatric hospitals, (from where he transferred them to the care of his team), only goes to show the necessity of adequate, professional and individual assessment.

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2006/07/new_story_on_morgellons_diseas.php

Of course, Ursula is on the flip-side of what I personally feel about “morgellons disease”, and when I’d asked for her source, regarding what she’d said Dr. Amin had done, she only replied back with:

Dr Omar Amin mentions the fact that many of his patients were (inappropriately) diagnosed with delusional parasitosis, and were consequently admitted to psychiatric care.

As we all know, Orap (pimozide) is an excellent enough drug, but its efficacy is restricted to treating psychosis, (although it does additionally have anthelmintic properties).

If one reads Dr Amin’s publications, (a plethora of which are freely available on his website), it can be seen that many infected or infested patients were indeed transferred from psychiatric care to the rather more appropriate province of parasitology.

“Anthelmintic properties”? Okay. Anyway, over the years, I’ve read all of Dr. Amin’s on line literature, the same as I’ve read all that I can, concerning this entire topic. I’ve apparently overlooked what Ursula stated about his transferring psychiatric patients out of hospitals to the care of his team, or, perhaps, I failed reading between the lines. Am I curious? Yeah, you bet I am.

It pisses me off when those who are vulnerable are exploited, and this “morgellons disease” thing is a grave situation for some patients and their families. For others, I’m sure it isn’t that big a deal, with it being as multifaceted as it is.

This is an interesting read. (Lengthy, but interesting.)

http://onlineethics.org/reseth/nbac/mpaper5.html

“Morgellons” patients haven’t any understanding of what their doctors have told them. They fall for the “doctors” screwing around with their delicate states of ill health.

Oh, I’d better hush. I get all worked up over all of this.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/13274785/detail.html

Deputies said the home Veal shared with her elderly mother was littered with human waste. Investigators say it made them sick to go inside. Veal’s cousin, Polly Poole, said Veal suffers from an illness called Morgellon’s Disease. [...] Poole said she believes Veal turned to illegal drugs, like crack cocaine, to deal with the pain.

Very sad. The CDC will not be able to help cases like that.

It seems Morgellons is only twice as popular as Vexilollogy.

http://www.beloblog.com/KGW_Blogs/reporters/2007/05/nightmare_under_the_microscope.html

Rutz’s interview was quite telling. For many of the individual people who have Morgellons, they will never accept the findings of the CDC. But for some it will hopefully allow them to be able to accept that there is no novel infectious disease making fibers come out of their skin, and and they need to treat both their physical and their mental problems.

http://www.kgw.com/health/stories/kgw_051007_special_morgellons_cdc.58088115.html

http://www.kgw.com/health/stories/kgw_051007_special_news_morgellens.58019270.html

Much better than the psychology today article, which may have been one of the shoddiest pieces of print I have ever read.