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Crystal Clear

Got the Morgs? You need a laugh. And we need answers about Morgellons Disease.

  1. Discouraged by Morgellons

    2d ago

    Discouraged by Morgellons

    The etymology of “discourage” is de-hearted — courage taken away. Four ways to get it back, why platforms aren’t witness, and an original closing song. Crystal Clear proves again how delusional she is on this episode where she waxes philosophic on the word discourage — cor, Latin for heart, so to discourage is to take the heart out, and to encourage is to put it back. Four ways to re-heart that aren’t the kitten-on-a-blanket poster version: Anger over reassurance — indignation re-hearts faster than “you can do it,” and it’s why “you can’t” sometimes works better. Find a witness — courage is partly social, which is the whole problem with what platforms sell as witness.One small concrete move — the next single step shrinks the mountain back to a molehill.Reconnect to the stakes — discouragement is usually the stakes dimming. Remember what you refuse to lose.Plus: aim the anger somewhere that moves. The open records requests still outstanding — OSU (filed Feb 23) and the Stony Brook FOIL on the 2007 Morgellons research — and an invitation to file your own. Closing original song "Collections"— claps in triplets, a sleepy acoustic loop, and a lyrical thesis on why there’s no influencer presence here: no name in the public domain, but in the private sphere I have no fear. They capitalize on all of our lives. They need us more than we need them. For the SEO demons I love so much: Morgellons, More Morgellons podcast, Crystal Clear, etymology of courage, discouragement, FOIA, FOIL request, open records at OSU Tulsa, Stony Brook NY Morgellons research, platform capture, attention economy, why I have no social media but still somehow manage to be the most self-absorbed humanborg on the planet, and original music by The Worms. “We can’t say no to pain, but we can say no to suffering. I can transmute fear into anger and isolation into connection.” -CC

    10 min
  2. Morgellons Malpractice

    5d ago

    Morgellons Malpractice

    A listener returns to the show and pulls a fiber out of a factory-sealed package. Science pulls a “consistent with” out of its ass. Only one of those folks is being honest. Also, Crystal's baaack, and I'm open the only sane way: with Ren calling in at 9:30am holding a mystery fiber and the question every exiled patient eventually screams into the void. No diagnosis, no PhD cosplay — just two hella sexy middle-aged hotties who actually have this thing ... proving that you can have morgs and a life. But part of that life requires people practice. I know, you might be out of practice, but maybe today you pick up the phone, go for the walk, say something to a stranger. That helps this more than anything, so CC says. Thus, Healing first. Receipts second. Then Crystal sharpens the knives. Thirty years, six continents, identical symptom, zero shared telephone game — and somehow the verdict was “mass hysteria”? Bestie, hysteria needs a group chat. We put the CDC’s “unexplained dermopathy” under the lamp, where “consistent with cotton” turns out to be the lab-coat version of a suppressed fart, and the raw spectra that’d settle the mystery for some reason mysteriously never got published. And our physical fibers under intact skin sits there being rude and real while everyone calls it a belief we have or a feeling. Bruh, it's a photograph. We don’t claim to know the cause. We claim somebody got handed an object, refused to name it, and then billed us, defamed us and exiled us for the audacity of asking. “Consistent with cotton. It’s consistent with cowardice.” -C.C. Tags Morgellons, Morgellons disease, Morgellons fibers, unexplained dermopathy, CDC Morgellons study, delusional parasitosis, is Morgellons real, medical gaslighting, chronic illness, patient advocacy, nurse podcast Connect Slide into the inbox, leave a voice or text note at the site moremorgellons.com and do not forget to rate, review, subscribe and smear your black goo all over that play button so you can just loop your way thru all 19 seasons of the Morgellons SURVIVAL GUIDE CC has built with the help of listeners from all over the world. Please, offer your voice to this archive. It will not be censored, it will not be twisted, and your story will be accepted as true and trusted... unless you claim to be sexier than Crystal, which scientifically speaking is impossible. That will be debunked. Everything else goes!

    18 min
  3. Morgellons Stages Clues

    May 9

    Morgellons Stages Clues

    A guy walks into a hardware store with vinegar, borax, copper mesh, a propane torch, and tweezers. If you have Morgellons, you know exactly what he’s building — and exactly why he can’t tell the kid in the orange vest. This episode opens with that scene, then goes somewhere most coverage of Morgellons disease refuses to go: the staged, recognizable progression of what people think they have before they arrive at Morgellons. Scabies. Worms. Springtails. Collembola. Lyme. Nanobots. Smart dust. The Oklahoma study at 2 AM on PubMed.Crystal Clear lays out why that sequence itself is data — not delusion. Diseases have stages of symptoms. Morgellons has stages of misidentification, marched through in roughly the same order by thousands of strangers across continents who’ve never spoken. That pattern requires an explanation. “Mass delusion” isn’t one.Plus two records updates worth your attention:        •       A new Oklahoma Open Records Act request submitted to the State Department of Health regarding the 2000 Collembola study (Altschuler, Crutcher, et al.) — the one with the manipulated photographs.        •       An IRS 4506-A request for the Morgellons Research Foundation’s final 990 filings (2009, 2010, 2011) came back denied with three stacked, internally inconsistent reasons — while the Pennsylvania Department of State has a complete eight-year paper trail for the same organization, including the dissolution filing. Schedule N would document where the money went on the way out. Schedule N is what’s missing.You are not crazy. What you have is.Keywords / tags:Morgellons, Morgellons disease, Crystal Clear, More Morgellons podcast, Morgellons fibers, Morgellons stages, Morgellons symptoms, Collembola Oklahoma study, Morgellons Research Foundation, MRF 990, IRS 4506-A, Schedule N, nonprofit dissolution, Altschuler Crutcher, springtails Morgellons, Lyme Morgellons, nanobots smart dust, CDC Morgellons 2012, Mick West, contested illness, medical gaslighting, patient communities, investigative podcast

    26 min
  4. Joros: Putting the Spy in Spider

    Apr 27

    Joros: Putting the Spy in Spider

    Crystal’s backyard has been invaded and she has questions. This week on More Morgellons: the Joro spider, the silkworm computer, the cockroach with the Xbox controller, and what it means to be early instead of wrong.The Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) arrived in Georgia around 2013 and has spread across the Southeast — confirmed in the Smoky Mountains, reportedly now in California. The official line is they’re shy, they’re harmless, they eat stink bugs, leave them alone. Crystal read the brochure. She has notes.In this episode:        •       The University of Georgia turkey baster study and the 67-minute freeze response (other orb-weavers average 96 seconds)        •       Why elevated heart rate during a freeze is biologically backwards but device-behavior forwards        •       Joro silk: gold pigmentation, tensile strength comparable to high-grade steel, 200–400% elasticity, and why the military has been trying to synthesize it for forty years        •       JSTX-3, the glutamate receptor inhibitor in Joro venom that neuroscience supply catalogs have sold by name for decades        •       Reports of Joros building preferentially on power line infrastructure        •       The international black market for invasive arthropods, the guy with the briefcase of ants in Nairobi, and how a Joro might end up in a shipping containerThen we zoom out to the broader pattern — the openly published cyborg insect research that’s been running for almost twenty years:        •       DARPA’s HI-MEMS program (Hybrid Insect Micro-Electromechanical Systems) and the moth-pupa electrode work        •       The remote-controlled cockroach demos posted to YouTube in 2009 (with the Xbox controller)        •       Russia’s pigeon surveillance program        •       China’s 2024 bee neural control announcement — 90% accuracy, stated use case: covert reconnaissance        •       Donghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences feeding silkworms cadmium, gold, carbon nanotubes, and graphene — and the resulting silk that conducts electricity and forms self-healing logic gatesThe episode closes with the question Crystal keeps coming back to: where exactly is the line between vigilance and paranoia, and who gets to draw it?Listener mail: A one-year update from a listener living with a Morgellons self-diagnosis, on being believed by family after a long stretch of dismissal. Send your own messages, written or voice — Crystal will listen. moremorgellons.comMentioned:University of Georgia entomology Joro behavior studies · DARPA HI-MEMS · Donghua University silk bioelectronics research · JSTX-3 in neuroscience literatureMore Morgellons is a podcast about noticing weird things. New episodes daily, weekly and unpredictably. Subscribe, share, send your stories.

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

    Apr 26

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

    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.What’s in this one:        •       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        •       The Kritters message board, the anonymous “Librarian,” and how everyone got funneled to skinparasites.com        •       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        •       The LiceMeister: FDA “cleared” in May 1998, reclassified as a regular comb six months later, still marketed as a medical device 27 years on        •       $1.2 million in comb sales in the year 2000 alone — under a nonprofit        •       The 1,800-person patient NUSPA registry and the very detailed questionnaire nobody talks about        •       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        •       The 2012 call for retraction over alleged image manipulation — and the silence that followed        •       The Lyme-industry footnote: ILADS, IGeneX, and where the money goes        •       Why “the origin story isn’t credible” is not the same as “Morgellons isn’t real”The Three Witches of Itchwick. Roll the credits.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 moremorgellons.com

    29 min
4.8
out of 5
20 Ratings

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Got the Morgs? You need a laugh. And we need answers about Morgellons Disease.