Thread: Morgellon's Disease? A Bioterrorism?

Originally Posted by juroara

I didn't understand how thousands of people could just be delusional and making this all up.

Uh, maybe it'll help to consider that literally millions of US citizens have diagnosable mental disorders.

Originally Posted by Xei

Uh, maybe it'll help to consider that literally millions of US citizens have diagnosable mental disorders.

That doesn't really have anything to do with the OP, does it? You're talking about the entire American populace, while the TS was referring to people with physical proof of their suffering.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

That doesn't really have anything to do with the OP, does it? You're talking about the entire American populace, while the TS was referring to people with physical proof of their suffering.

There's no doubt that the disease exists, but the cause is somewhat unknown. Unless there is a study done on the direct link between Morgellons and certain types of food, there's probably no reason to panic and call out a conspiracy.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

That doesn't really have anything to do with the OP, does it? You're talking about the entire American populace, while the TS was referring to people with physical proof of their suffering.

What? It is completely pertinent to the part of the OP that I quoted. It is not remotely hard to believe that "thousands of people" could have a paranoid delusion when this number is such a tiny proportion of the population, and even a tiny proportion of the number of people who have actually been diagnosed with paranoid mental illnesses. 1,000 is only an impressive number if you completely ignore the sample size you're talking about. It's of the order of one in a million people.