I see you've made some changes to Morgellons that totally change the nature of the article, and make it seem as is Morgellons is a recognized disease. Can you justify these changes? Please discuss on the Morgellons discussion page. -- Herd of Swine22:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, Pez. You have been blocked for a day due to your severe edit warring on Morgellons. Once you are unblocked, please contribute constructively by taking the issue at hand to the talk page — if someone reverts you, that means they disagree. When people disagree, the ordeal should be taken to the talk page of the article. In the meantime, if you serve your block in peace it will help you. If you have any questions, you are still able to edit your talk page. —this is messedrocker(talk)23:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This article was written by a man who has an agenda -- to discredit Morgellons as a legitimate disease. I don't think that furthering a biased agenda is the goal of Wikipedia. The man who contributes to this page started an anti-morgellons website called morgellonswatch. The CDC is currently researching this newly emerging infectious disease. I would like to see this article completely revised or deleted.
The first paragraph for example, comments in caps.
Morgellons or Morgellons disease is a controversial name THE NAME OF THE DISEASE IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL (OPINION) for an alleged THE TONE OF THIS WORD HAS A NEG CONNOTATION polysymptomatic syndrome characterized ITS CHARACTERIZED BY MORE THAN THAT by patients finding fibers on their skin THEY FIND FIBERS COMING OUT FROM SORES, which they believe are related to other symptoms, including intense itching, skin lesions, as well as a wide range of other chronic symptoms. These symptoms are occasionally accompanied by the belief in an infestation by some unknown arthropod or parasite THIS STATEMENT SHOULD BE DELETED. The term Morgellons is not in accepted use by the medical community and the syndrome is widely held CAN YOU PROVE IT IS WIDELY HELD OR ONLY SOMETIMES DIAGNOSED AS by the medical community to be a type of delusional parasitosis. There is no agreed-upon physical cause, etiology, diagnostic criteria or proven treatment. Pressure from patients, including doctors and nurses who claim to have a host of difficult symptoms A HOST OF DIFFICULT SYMPTOMS OR THE DRAFT CASE DEFINITION FOR MORGELLONS DISEASE, resulted in a June 2006 statement from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it had begun organizing a committee for the purpose of investigating Morgellons to determine whether it exists. DID THE CDC SAY THAT THEY WERE INVESTIGATING IT DUE TO PRESSURE FROM PATIENTS? I DOUBT IT.
Interesting point. That paragraph doesn't seem to cite any sources, so if you could provide any sources that say that Moregellons is a legitimate disease, etc, I'd be willing to clarify the first paragraph. —this is messedrocker(talk)11:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How about this as the first paragraph? It is more factual and unbiased. I can quote doctors who say it is a legitimate disease.
Morgellons or Morgellons disease is the name of what may be a newly emerging infectious disease. There is not yet an agreed-upon physical cause, etiology, diagnostic criteria or proven treatment for this disease. In June 2006 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement that it had begun organizing a committee for the purpose of investigating Morgellons to determine whether it exists. Doctors themselves are divided over whether Morgellons is a medical or a psychiatric illness. “The patients are clearly suffering from something; it is just not clear what that something is.” (NY TIMES, October 2006)
Here are some doctors who agree that it is a real disease:
"I think it's a real disease," said Dr. Rafael Stricker, a physician in San Francisco who sees many patients claiming to have Morgellons. "Certainly there is an element of psychiatric distress here, but that's because the patients are ill and nobody wants to listen to them," he said.Many patients also test positive for Lyme disease, Dr. Stricker has
found; certain antibacterial and antiparasitic medications sometimes seem to alleviate the symptoms, he said." "I feel it's a parasite, perhaps a fungus," Dr. Uppal said. "You
have to give patients the benefit of the doubt."(NY TIMES ARTICLE:October 2006)
