On wikipedia

I use Wikipedia often and I find it both informative and convenient. However I would like to comment on its Morgellons treatise.

1. They fail to mention that this disease (with no recognized name, pre 2000's), has been reported since the 1870's. Without internet (probably often illiterate patients), presented themselves to barbershop poles (AKA doctors), with the same symptoms.

Since smoking was popular in those days, the patients often arrived with matchboxes full of debris. Lazy or incompetent doctors wrote these patients off as 'matchbox syndrome'. When the parade of patients grew, they decided to give it a more scientific sounding name (Delusions of Parasitosis, or Delusional Parasitosis aka DOP)

However some good doctors, doing their JOB, found on the patients and in the matchbox debris, Springtails (STs). STs, or Collembolae are an archaic bug from which it is believed crustaceans and mollusks evolved. Collembolae have been around for 400 million years.

Doctors continued to find this evidence right up to the present day, however, in view of the prejudicial attitude of the ADA and CDC, they hesitate to report. Also some have gone so far as to claim that the patients go out and find STs, and rub them into existing sores.

All, of the above, Wikipedia chose to omit from their Morgellons page. They also omitted to mention that the US military bio-weapons branch, made chiggers out of STs, before and during the Korean War.

They also omit to mention that well qualified Chinese and Korean scientists, brought samples of ST chiggers to the US military, relating them to a disease called 'Rotten Leg Disease"

Also omitted, is the Oklahoma Study undertaken by the National Pediculosis Association, and the OK state heath authority, which found evidence of ST's in the skin samples of 18/20 subjects.

I would try to get this info to Wikipedia, however I know they are raising money right now, so busy that they are distracted from logic.

Mr Wales...I think you are a good man. Please remember the adage : A good man doing nothing, is evil enough !