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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 957
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Unidentified Skin Parasites
Since I've been blogging on and off about the infestation of squirrel botflies in the woods behind my house, and the resulting lumpy squirrels, somebody asked me my opinion on these the other day, and I'd never heard of them.
http://www.skinparasites.com/ (No icky photos or anything.) Other than a passing morbid curiousity about the botflies, I have about as much experience in parasitology as I do in mammoth wrangling, so I have no idea what constitutes acceptable evidence for this sort of thing. Still, it sounded kinda fishy to me--the supposed parasite couldn't be detected by science, it looked like a whole bunch of different things, and it didn't go away when you steam cleaned the carpets. Has anybody else heard of this? Are there really undetectable mystery bugs out there, or is this a support group for the modern day version of "There's bugs crawling on me"? |
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Alberta
Posts: 13,894
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I've seen faxes and emails that try to convince people that eczema and acne are caused by parasites. Then they peddle alt med "cures". I suffer from both and know what works to get rid of them, and nothing involves parasites.
Thus, I'm with you and your assesment of the website.
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A simple test can determine if something is a parasite vs any of the above stupid notions about lint or hair.I snuck into the forum:
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Oh, more woo "treatments"
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You can be cured by placebo effect. Evidence of a psychosis. Some speculation on what the parasite may be or might be caused by...rather kinda funny: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:L....128.184&hl=en
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Motion affecting a measuring device does not affect what is actually being measured, except to inaccurately measure it. the immaterial world doesn't matter, cause it ain't matter-Jeff Corey my karma ran over my dogma-vbloke The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories by Rebecca Bradley, read it! |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 3,790
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Another exerpt from the forum....
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"Reci bobu bob a popu pop." - Tanja "Everything is physics. This does not mean that physics is everything." - Cuddles "The entire practice of homeopathy can be substituted with the advice to "take two aspirins and call me in the morning." - Linda "Homeopathy: I never knew there was so little in it." - BSM |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 256
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Ah, now chemtrails make more sense: either evil govts disperse this horrible parasite via chemtrails to reduce population (and they are skinparasitrails in reality), or evil aliens have introduced the parasite on our planet to reduce population and govts try to discreetly eliminate it via chemtrails (and they are antiskinparasitrails in reality). All suddenly becomes crystal clear.
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