Maybe. But outliers have always made the “breakthroughs”. We used to think the world was flat.

Posting this link once again, at the risk of being “that commenter”. :

There IS debate. I posted this directly to the author, too, but thought you might like to see this:

Sounds like you may not have had, or care for someone who has, a rare disease and actually IS a special snowflake. There are, of course, people who have Munchausen’s or whatever and their illness IS the need to feel special. But as someone with a child with a disability that only 1/15,000 people have (compared to…

Maybe the same reason you insist on drawing a hard line between the two. There’s just no way to see through any other filter than your own experience, is there?

Actually, the doctor you mentioned in the article is not the the lone voice in supporting further research could reveal that MD is an actual thing. Here is a peer-reviewed article published this year, just a few months ago, that shows that neither the CDC studies nor the Mayo studies are universally accepted as…

Actually, yes, they sometimes do “sprout.” I have even read a few accounts of people *watching* the things sprout from spots on other people where there *wasn’t* already a lesion (most of the doctors’ explanation were “oh, those are just fibers of fabric that got stuck in an existing lesion.”).

And sometimes it’s just…

If you get on some of those boards, those are the most thorough people you have ever met. They freakin’ bathe in Clorox, for instance...

But psychosomatic is misused so often. It CAN mean “it’s all in your head, and that’s why you’re feeling it....in other words, you’re making it up” But it can also mean (and originally meant) “physical manifestations connected to activities of the mind.” The mind, not the IMAGINATION, was considered an actual CAUSE of…

This is a beautiful post.

This. Actually, I have done a bunch of research on this and there is the weird chemtrail theory thing but there is ALSO a lot connecting candida to Morgellon’s. Itching is a very difficult symptom to trace the origins of because it can originate in so many different ways. This shit is systemic, which is why western…

No.

Thank you for asking this question, and politely, too. I scrolled and scrolled through post after post by people were only through their own lens of experience, talking with great certainty about obesity-causing conditions that apparently couldn't exist...all the while getting sadder and sadder because —-guess…