My gosh, so many ideas here, too much to respond to in an organized and thorough fashion...so I will just throw things out as they present themselves in my mind.
First - prions - very interesting idea! They are very mysterious (here's a discussion on them:
NOVA Online | The Brain Eater | Do Prions Exist?).
I have to admit it is too complicated for me to try to put together except in the most superficial manner.
The book about related phenomena from 10 years ago. Two on the list were chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf war syndrome. Both are definitely related to Morgellons, if not the same thing. As I mentioned in another post, Dr. Wymore applied for a grant to study Gulf War Syndrome to see if it IS, in fact, Morgellons. He said that all of the symptoms were the same as Morgellons, but without the fibers. He speculated that no one looked for the tiny embedded fibers and that it should be investigated. He was turned down.
Maybe this huge mosaic of diseases and phenomena are in fact related, and have at the core the same primary cause.
How on earth are we going to put it all together?? We need a team of physicists, chemists, biologists, clergymen, psychics, ufologists, environmental toxicologists, computer geniuses, and more to do it!
I had other thoughts but they evaporated...
Oh - one other thing - there are some discussion sites that focus on a wide range of topics, such as Rumor Mills and Above Top Secret. Then there is Rense that has speakers from all these areas on a regular basis.
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