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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