June 10, 2022

Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease

51 minutes

EPISODE 60 | Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease

A boy with a rash, a concerned mother, the internet and a lack of medical knowledge combine to create the phenomenon known as Morgellons Disease. It's a nefarious condition where coloured fibers appear under your skin, causing fatigue and pain, possibly placed there by evil forces. Or it might be a mental delusion transmitted from person to person by reading about it on the internet.

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SECTIONS

02:01 - Mary Leitao coins a phrase, gains a following

07:12 - Doctors take a look, Morgellons spreads

13:28 - Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA) or Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), conspiracy folks especially vunerable

19:51 - Munchausen by internet & cybermuchers

22:03 - Steve Leary lies Down Under, Steve Kirsch lies for profit

24:32 - Delusional parasitosis (DP), dopamine, matchbox signs, folie à deux, folie à internet, quack cures, memes are viruses

31:03 - More doctors take a closer look, mental or not - sufferers really do suffer

33:45 - Polly Murray & Lyme Disease

38:20 - Quck alt-medicine, chronic Lyme disease, illness for political gain, a Plum Island plot, Jeff Rense & the NWO

43:35 - GMOs, chemtrails, nanobots, aliens, mind control, depopulation, paranoia, "mutated arthropods" & e-fibers, parasite Hulda Clark hates parasites

47:15 - Probably a suite of issues, somatic symptom disorder, Better Call Saul, mind and body are one, morgies deserve empathy

Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO:

Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions episode

Morgellons on Healthline

Morgellons on MedicineNet

Morgellons on WebMD

Morgellon disease: A case report in European Psychiatry

History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition

Is Morgellons Disease Real or a Delusional Disorder?

Article on Mary Leitao in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne

Essay on Browne's text in the Annals of Medical History

Mary Leitao's Morgellons Research Foundation

'Morgellons' Mystery from ABC News

Morgellons disease: Managing an unexplained skin condition from the Mayo Clinic

The curious case of Morgellons disease on Mind Hacks

Morgellons article in Scientific American

The Devil’s Bait in Harper's

Munchausen: Unusual Suspects in Psychology Today

LA Times article on Polly Murray

A Connecticut housewife in Francis Bacon's court: Polly Murray and Lyme disease

Common Threads: An Inspection of the Morgellons Community on the MENSA website

What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity? on The Cut

MY RESPONSE TO, “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LYME DISEASE BECOMES AN IDENTITY” by the Blanced Blonde

Lyme-Related Government Actions on Quackwatch

Morgellon’s Syndrome - Scientific? Surreal? …or extra-terrestrial?

Moregllons episode of Skeptoid podcast

Steve Kirsch on Politifact

The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark on Quackwatch

The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision episode

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