- Much sound and fury is currently being generated by mainstream
media concerning the recent CDC announcement that Kaiser Permanente has been
selected by the CDC to conduct a "groundbreaking" study into the causes and
nature of what the CDC and Kaiser both euphemistically (and erroneously) term
Morgellons "syndrome."
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- In the opening news conference statement to the press, The
CDC's principle investigator
- Dr. Michele Pearson, with his Kaiser counterpart, Dr. Joe
Selby at his side, sets the tone for a CDC position on this issue that can only
be described as disingenuous at best.
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- "There is insufficient information," intones Dr. Pearson, "to
determine whether persons who identify themselves as having this condition, have
common cause for their symptoms or may share common risk factors."
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- This statement speaks volumes. One can only suppose that the
good doctor is either stunningly under-informed or is a deliberate liar. In
light of readily available information that has come into the possession of this
writer, Dr. Pearson and his friends over at Kaiser Permanente appear to be
fully informed as to the scope and nature of this affliction.
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- Furthermore, the CDC is quite clearly aware that there already
exists a large body of professional Morgellons research that has been done under
the organized auspices of former Morgellons Research Foundation scientist Dr.
Randy Wymore.
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- Dr.Wymore, the current head of Morgellons research at the
prestigious school of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University, has personally
briefed CDC officials in the past. Nonetheless, the Atlanta based organization
showed very little interest in the subject of Morgellons or in Dr. Wymore's
revolutionary findings concerning the growing danger this affliction poses to
society at large.
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- The CDC is also aware that there exists a large compendium
of additional work available for referencing. A great deal of research has been
performed in the last few years by a select number of other professionally
qualified medical-field researchers including such well known notables
as Dr.William Harvey, Dr Hildegard Stannigar, and Dr. Rahim Karjoo
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- In his opening CDC press conference statement Dr. Pearson uses
the term "common risk factors" as a descriptive term... For those who are the
uninitiated, that is CDC doublespeak for drug abuse or delusional mental
illness.
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- This denigrating and underhanded remark is a direct slap in
the face of Morgellons patients, many of whom are children, senior
citizens, teachers, nurses or other medical professionals. Such eye-opening
statements belie the truth behind the thought processes taking place in the
halls of the CDC. They give the astute observer an inkling of what lays in store
for "Morgies" who are trusting enough to ignore the telegraphed meaning of such
implied signals.
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- For reasons they have apparently chosen not to make public,
the CDC has therefore deliberately decided to ignore, negate and
suppress the considerable body of nearly three years worth of ongoing, highly
qualified field work by others outside the CDC nexus. They have chosen instead
to form an unholy alliance with the largest HMO/insurer in the world, Kaiser
Permanente.
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- By marginalizing professional research that has already taken
place during the CDC's long and curious absence from the Morgellons issue, they
are now seen to be suddenly setting themselves up as the sole judge of any
consequence in the public eye. This is a very dangerous and powerful position
for an organization with a track record like the CDC to be allowed to place
itself in. Morgellons sufferers had best beware.
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- In what is probably the biggest conflict of
interest since convicted felon Henry Blodget was hired as a Wall Street
securities analyst, the Kaiser "fox" is now being given the keys to the CDC's
hen house. In return, it appears that the CDC expects the obliging chickens
to gratefully invite him in for dinner.
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- It may well be that the CDC announcement concerning the much
ballyhooed Morgellons research grant is little more than
self-serving bureaucratic sound and fury...or it may be that a much darker and
deadlier game is being played. A cursory study of the CDC's woeful lack of past
interaction with the Morgellons community will open a Pandora's box of questions
that beg answers .
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- There is little doubt that the CDC knows how to play the
political game. Based on past experience, many Morgies are of the opinion that
the Kaiser "study" is little more than under-funded pork, a shuck, a jive,
political chicanery and, at worst, a cynical lip service designed to throw
a fog over the clever methodology of how bureaucracies with something to
hide engage in issue assassination.
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- So why, we might wonder, would the Mandarins of the CDC engage
in such transparently duplicitous behavior? Why would they spend hard earned tax
dollars for information that already exists and could be had with a
simple conference call or two? Well, the answer is at once simple and yet
Byzantine.
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- It is germane to note that by their own malfeasant admission,
over the last eight years the CDC has received thousands upon thousands of
requests for help from Morgellons victims. All of these pleas, until now,
fell upon deaf ears. Not one red cent was ever spent to determine what it was
that was taking place not only across America but around the world as well.
Meanwhile the CDC has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on an unending parade
of fizzled "non-event" epidemics that have come and gone during that same time
frame. A number of these high dollar non-event epidemics affected less than a
dozen people across the country while others never materialized at all!
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- As the white rabbit would say: Curiouser and curiouser!
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- Now, at the behest of the Morgellons study, the CDC is
dipping into the trough of public tax dollars once again. This time however, the
bucket has come up woefully short. A pitiful $360 K is all that is earmarked for
this study!
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- Let's think about that for a moment. $360 K is less than the
price of an average split-level home in Los Angeles County. What will 360 K buy
in today's world of bloated research budgets? The salaries of the research
staff alone should total more than that. What can we assume will be the cost of
high technology tests and other high tech equipment needed to insure accurate
Morgellons test results? Modern research tests can easily run into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Private researcher, Dr.Hildegaard Stannigar, reports
that she has independently spent $39,000 of private money on such tests and
that many more tests are still in need of performing.
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- It doesn't take an accountant to figure out that three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars is not going to buy much in the way of a reliable
study...and..It doesn't take a Weatherman to figure out which way the wind is
blowing in the halls of the CDC.
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- Morgellons activists need to wake up and smell the coffee. The
CDC has no intention of solving the Morgellons mystery. Those who think
otherwise need to review the history of the CDC's hostile and
dismissive interaction with the Morgellons community over the span of the
last eight to ten years. Under modest scrutiny it becomes painfully apparent
that this study is a farce and a fraud.
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- What it is actually being sold to the gullible among us is
smoke and mirrors. For a variety of hidden reasons the CDC is offering up the
public expedient of having done their "part."
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- Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the daggers are being sharpened
in the dark hallways of Kaiser and the CDC. Morgellons victims who, in their
current desperation, rush to embrace these bureaucratic assassins of Faith and
Hope would do well to wear extra body armor.
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- -Cliff Mickelson-
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