Before Mary's Morgellons: Elliot's Disease, the Lice Empire, and the Oklahoma Springtail Study

<p>The pre-Morgellons era, audited. Crystal traces Elliot’s Disease from a 1999 message board post to a 2004 entomology paper that should’ve been retracted — and the cast of characters quietly running the show before Mary Leto ever showed up.<br>What’s in this one:<br>        •       The 1999 Sidney letter: a Colorado man named Elliot, a barbiturate overdose, and a “small group” with no computers who somehow found each other across three states and Shanghai<br>        •       The Kritters message board, the anonymous “Librarian,” and how everyone got funneled to <a href="http://skinparasites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">skinparasites.com</a><br>        •       Deborah Altschuler’s one verifiable credential (a 1968 education degree), an unconfirmed DoD medical school appointment, and a “healthcare background” doing Olympic-level heavy lifting<br>        •       The LiceMeister: FDA “cleared” in May 1998, reclassified as a regular comb six months later, still marketed as a medical device 27 years on<br>        •       $1.2 million in comb sales in the year 2000 alone — under a nonprofit<br>        •       The 1,800-person patient NUSPA registry and the very detailed questionnaire nobody talks about<br>        •       The 2000 Oklahoma trip: 20 sufferers paying their own way, Mike Crutcher (future Oklahoma Health Commissioner), two Romanian parasitologists, and the 2004 paper that concluded Morgellons was springtails<br>        •       The 2012 call for retraction over alleged image manipulation — and the silence that followed<br>        •       The Lyme-industry footnote: ILADS, IGeneX, and where the money goes<br>        •       Why “the origin story isn’t credible” is not the same as “Morgellons isn’t real”<br>The Three Witches of Itchwick. Roll the credits.<br>Tags: morgellons, Elliot’s disease, Deborah Altschuler, licemeister, Mike Crutcher, springtails, collembola, NPA, NUSPA, ILADS, IGeneX, Morgellons history, Morgellons origin, More Morgellons podcast, Lyme industry, fiber disease</p><p><a href="moremorgellons.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">moremorgellons.com</a><br></p><p></p>