Morgellons Critique

The formal rebuttal to mainstream medicine on morgellons, distilled and concentrated like a fine liquor that makes you as belligerent as tequila after imbibing. Bottoms up and happy new year.

Episode Transcript

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So the CDCI know are you tired of hearing me talk about this?
Yeah, still here, still me, a crystal clear host of more
morgalons. Thanks for listening.
The CDC looked at morgalons samples.
They found cellulose, silica andPEG polyethylene glycol and then
brace yourself concluded that the cellulose was quote probably
cotton and the silica and polyethylene glycol were just

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non consequential contaminants. Case closed, science.
Mic drop. Everybody go home.
This is the analytical equivalent of finding wires,
gel, and insulation in your walls and announcing good news.
It's probably a sweater and the rest is just dust.
Because here's the problem. Cellulose plus silica plus
polyethylene glycol is not nothing.

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That's a materials recipe, not lint.
Those ingredients show up in conducted hydrogels, biomedical
coatings, drug delivery matrices, wound dressing, sensor
substrates, and a whole parade of engineered systems that very
much do things they are not known in nature for
spontaneously assembling themselves into fibers and
crawling out of skin like they missed the memo on biology.

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A real study. The CDC study was not a real
study because a real study doesn't stop it.
Probably cotton. A real investigation would have
followed the thread. What kind of cellulose?
Native or regenerated? Why polyethylene glycol?
What molecular weight was it? What role?
Why silica? Was it amorphous silica?
Structured silica? Functional silica?
Why are they consistently found together?
Instead, they exited early and locked the door behind them.

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Not because the question was answered, but because the
question was inconvenient. No, instead the CDC treated a
material science breadcrumb trail like a laundry problem.
Cotton happens. Polyethylene, it all happens.
Silica happens. Nothing to see here.
That's not skepticism, that's early exit bias.
They didn't follow the thread toits end.
They cut it, labeled it probablycotton, and stapled the

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conclusion shut before the chemistry got uncomfortable.
And that, folks, is how you turna potentially interesting
materials problem into a very expensive shrug as the end of
the year once again arrives. Here we are at Year 5, going on
year 6 of more morgalons. Yes, Can you believe it?
Can you believe that I've been talking about morgalons this
long? Well, I have, and I don't plan

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on stopping anytime soon. Not until we recap everything
we've learned since episode one.First of all, if this is a
delusion, it needs a refund. Let's just walk through one more
time. Or maybe not the last time, but
let's just walk through again. The official explanation for
Morkalons. Very calmly.
Not emotionally, not conspiratorially.
Just like adults who can still do basic logic.

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So the mainstream position is this is a monosymptomatic
delusional disorder. OK, great, let's unpack what
that actually means. A monosymptomatic delusion is a
fixed false belief with no physical evidence and otherwise
intact functioning. Cool.
Love a definition, don't you? Definitions are doing a lot of
heavy lifting today. Now here's the problem.

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People show up with stuff in their skin.
It's even in the CDC paper, in apicture, in the research.
People show up with stuff in their skin.
Not a belief, not a metaphor, not a vibe.
It's stuff in wounds, in their hair, on tape, on slides, in
their environment. And we say, and this is

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important. I don't know what this is.
I just know something is there. That's what we say.
That is what we say. That is what we say.
When we first get this especially, we go to the doctor,
We go, I don't know what the fuck this is.
Can you help me? I don't.
I don't know what this is. I just know something is there.
That's not a delusion. That's an observation followed
by confusion. You can argue about what The
thing is. You cannot say it doesn't exist

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because you refused to look at it.
That's not medicine. That's not even psychiatry.
That's a toddler covering their eyes and yelling.
Nope. And then comes my personal
favorite move. There are no objective findings.
Oh, is that because there are 9?Or is it because you didn't
collect them, didn't preserve them, didn't analyze them, and
didn't document them? Because declaring no findings

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after declining to examine findings is not skepticism.
That's not even laziness. That is both willful procedural
blindness and intentional negligence and malpractice.
That's like saying there's no evidence of sharks because you
refuse to look in the ocean. Then you all know about it.
They pull out the big gun, the phrase that should immediately

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make everyone in the room uncomfortable, especially if
they're not French. OK, now we're doing forensic
psychiatry cosplay. And by forensic, I mean like
forensic files, like criminal. That's what they call when you
the analysis of criminal psychology is forensic psych
psychiatry or psychology Becausequality I do is not something
that just casually floats aroundin psychiatry.

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That phrase lives in criminal cases.
It shows up when you have a dominant psychotic primary
person and then someone who is dependent upon them as the
secondary person. And that dynamic between them is
exist in isolation with coercion, abuse, intimidation,
control. It's like cult leaders, it's
abusive partners, it's hostage situations.

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It is not global civilian non criminal autonomous adults
persisting for 25 plus years unaffected by separation.
Also small detail, psychiatry removed shared a psychotic
disorder as a stand alone diagnosis from the DSM 5 because
it was sloppy and unreliable. So to recap, you threw out the

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diagnosis but brought it back just for mortal lines?
That's not doctrine, that's likemalpractice improv.
Yes and what if we just say theyinfected each other with
thoughts? Yeah Hey y'all I I just got
schizophrenia. I was hanging out with my friend
with schizophrenia and I got infected with it.
Really. Let's move on to their other

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favorite explanation. It's math psychotrip illness.
Oh yes, the Internet made us crazy.
We actually do know what mass psychogenic illness looks like.
It's sudden, localized, short lived, clustered, extinguishes
with reassurance. And Morgans is global, slow,
persistent, decades long, unaffected by reassurance, still
here, still growing. If this is mass psychogenic

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illness, it is the most durable,the most geographically
distributed, the least media dependent, and the least self
resolving mass psychogenic illness in history.
At which point the term stops explaining anything and that
just becomes a euphemism you apply to things you do not want
to deal with. And then there's the timing.

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We're supposed to believe that this is a psychiatric delusion
that appears suddenly in midlife, and according to the
crowdsourcing platform Stuff That Works dot Health, it peaks
most frequently. The most frequent age of onset
is age 40, and it does this in people with, generally speaking,
no psychiatric history of psychosis, delusions, anything.
That is not how primary delusional disorders behave.

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I've worked in psychiatric medicine nursing for 10 plus
years and that is not how primary delusional disorders
behave. You don't get perfectly fine,
perfectly fine, perfectly fine and bam, decades long highly
specific delusion. Psychiatry does not get to say
this is a routine psychiatric condition and also say it

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behaves like no other psychiatric condition.
Pick one. Then comes my favorite ethical
gymnastics routine. We can't recognize it because we
don't know the cause. Oh, interesting.
So migraines don't exist? IBS doesn't exist.
Chronic fatigue doesn't exist. Multiple sclerosis before
imaging didn't exist. Medicine recognizes patterns
before causes all the time. Except here.

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Here, suddenly etiology is required.
That's not rigor, that's selective skepticism bordering
on mass delusion. Kind of ironic isn't it?
Then they tell us non recognition protects patients.
Oh does it? Because what actually happens is

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wounds go untreated, infections happen, people deteriorate,
trust collapses, belief systems radicalize, people isolate.
That's not protection, that's abandonment.
With a lab coat on. That is negligent practice with
a lab coat on and a clipboard. Psychiatry is not being used to
help. It's being used to abandon.

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And now we get to the point thatabsolutely detonates the whole
thing. Self harm.
Listen, I worked in behavioral health for over a decade.
Children, adolescents, adults, acute chronic self harm is
everywhere. And do you know one of the most
consistent rules across all of psychiatry?
People do not self mutilate their faces.
They just don't. They cut their arms, their
thighs, their stomach, places you can hide, places you can

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control, places that don't destroy identity.
Even in severe cases, the face is avoided, the scalp is
avoided, permanent disfigurementis avoided.
That pattern is rock solid. So what they're asking us to
believe is that middle-aged adults, often women, often image
conscious, often spending money on Botox and fillers and dining

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Gray hairs and fighting aging. Suddenly in mass, we decided to
mutilate our faces, shave our heads, destroy visible identity
markers and keep doing it for years.
That would be like a brand spanking new psychiatric
disorder with no precedent targeting the most protected
body part emerging in midlife. There is no parallel for this.

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None. And here's the giveaway.
If clinicians actually believe this was standard self
mutilation, there would be emergency intervention, ethics
consults, protective holds, intensive treatment.
Instead there's dismissal, refusal to examine us, no wound
care, no protection. Which tells you the truth.
Even they don't believe this explanation, they're using it to
exit quote responsibly. So let me be very clear.

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We are not saying we know what this is.
We are saying the explanation you've settled on doesn't
survive 5 minutes of its own logic.
If this is a delusion, it is themost debilitating, lethal in
terms of suicide and God only knows what else psychiatric

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disorder that has ever existed. And it also is the most
neglected, abandoned, unstudied and ignored psychiatric illness
in the history of psychiatry in medicine.
If any non believers out there are listening, and I doubt you
are unless you're some kind of psychiatry grad student, well

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this message is for you. What we have witnessed is hard
for us to believe, yet we did indeed witness it.
It is your job not only to determine the nature of what we
witnessed, but if you refuse to do that part of your job and
insist on having a fixed belief,unmodifiable, regardless of the

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introduction of any new or better evidence, if you insist
upon that, and your job is to treat psychiatric disorders, and
this is 1. If your job is to treat people
with delusional disorder, you'renot doing your job very well.
Thank you listeners, whoever youmay be, with great compassion

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and empathy, even to those deniers, naysayers, and I'm
sorry but delusional doctors with love I say, and for the
love of God I tell all of you, you are not delusional.
Morgalon's is real. I don't know what it is, but I
know it is real. Do not doubt yourself.
Well, I mean continuously doubt yourself, but don't let

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ignorance gaslight you into madness.
You're not crazy, What you're seeing is real.
What the fuck it means, I don't know.
If you're interested in my ideas, you can go back and
listen to like all 480 somethingepisodes over the last five
years. Apparently it takes like 73 days
or straight or something. So I mean, I wouldn't recommend
that for anyone's health, but itis an entertaining show.

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