Wikipedia....GRRRR!!!!!

[Sadsack]

So many people - ME INCLUDED - go to Wiki for a quick explanation of something. The following is the Wiki on Morgellons. I am so angry I have chest pains.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS????


"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome) is a name given in 2002 by Mary Leitao[1] to a proposed infectious condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). Current scientific consensus holds that Morgellons is not a new disorder and is instead a new and misleading name for known illnesses. Most doctors,[2] including dermatologists[3] and psychiatrists,[4] regard Morgellons as a manifestation of known medical conditions, including delusional parasitosis,[5][6][7] although some health professionals say that an infectious cause could one day be found.[8] Illnesses such as delusional parasitosis can be serious and debilitating, but tested and effective treatments exist.

Despite the lack of evidence that Morgellons is a novel or distinct condition and the absence of any agreed set of diagnostic symptoms,[9] the Morgellons Research Foundation and self-diagnosed Morgellons patients have successfully lobbied members of Congress and the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the proposed condition.[2] The CDC states that while it is not known at present whether the condition represents a new disease entity, or whether persons who identify themselves as having Morgellons have a common cause for their symptoms, share common risk factors, or are contagious, it has begun an epidemiological investigation of the "Unexplained Dermopathy (aka 'Morgellons')."["

[Kritters]

Yeah SS!
We had someone bring that up not too long ago. I responded with the fact that we can alter and add to a Wiki definition. There is a section anyone can go to and do this.
Kritts

[Sadsack]

Kritters -
Can just anyone do that?? You don't have to pass any review process??? If that is so, I wonder why those among us who are more articulate haven't done that?
I have noticed that the Wiki definition has changed numerous times in the past year and a half. Maybe there is a "definition war" going on, where it gets constantly re-defined.
Seems to me that it would be relatively easy to define it as real using links to Citovsky, Wymore, CDC, and NIH. Things have evolved enough now to write it up with those supporting links.
SS

[Kritters]

hey, as a matter of fact, girlfriend, I seem to recall asking you to do it, since you are one of the more eloquent and informed ;-).

Your assignment, agent SS, should you choose to do it...is to stay on top of the Wiki!!
LOL
Kritts

[Baraka Obam]

How does this horse dung explanation come up at all, when there are so many things posted online about morgellons. It looks like a drug company spokesman wrote it, how can they possibly call into question the validity of the problems when they themselves show us on tv the vectors with their ads. HOW ABOUT THEIR ITCHING CREAM, this was made for MILLIONS not thousands. The advertisements alone cost tens of millions for each product, so don't give us the old imagined itching BALONY. Then there is the rash , get it, rash, of skin problem products. My god, what a crock they throw at people. Wow what a chance, actual true advertisement for us.