":::The core problem is that all such references are explicitly in the context of delusional parasitosis (e.g.), and the reason the various skin treatments DP sufferers attempt are ineffective is because it's a psychiatric condition and not a skin condition; since the mainstream medical community does not accept Morgellons, nothing is being published in the context of Morgellons as a legitimate dermatological condition, and presumably never will be. Nearly all of the ""scientific commentary"", in other words, is - if you want to be truly NPOV about it - impossible to include here. If no one outside the MRF accepts the existence of Morgellons, then no one is going to comment on the efficacy of treatments FOR Morgellons, are they? It's called a ""Catch-22"". That is ""a situation in which multiple probabilistic events exist, and the desirable outcome results from the confluence of these events, but there is zero probability of this happening, as they are mutually exclusive."" The mutually exclusive events in this case are that a reputable medical author(s) will publish in a reputable medical journal AND that this publication will happen to be a refutation of a fringe medical theory which both the author(s) and the journal editors reject so completely as to give it no credence whatsoever. Ain't gonna happen any time soon. It might be different if the pro-Morgellons folks ever came up with any clinical studies or other actual evidence for their claims, but in the absence of such, what reputable journal is going to give space to refuting completely unsupported fringe theories? Professionals don't usually waste their time arguing against theories which have zero supporting evidence. That's generally not how science (or medicine) operates. The one hope we have is that the CDC will eventually complete their investigation, and issue a public statement. Of course, one can easily predict the pro-Morgellons community will claim it's a government cover-up, but at least we'll have something else authoritative we can quote for inclusion in this article, instead of relying so heavily upon magazines and newspapers.    

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