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GREETINGS EARTHLINGS: Too Cliche'? Howdy Y'all!, wasup?, hi, yo, Friends, Romans, Countrymen...lend me your ear.

However you prefer your greeting, Susan has entered the project. I am looking forward to making diplomatic progress toward the clarification of the FACTS of a particular subject that I have, through experience, become an expert on. I appreciate the hours those involved in the Wikipedia project sacrifice in pursuit of presenting factual information that is easily understood by the majority of mainstream readers. I have often noticed over the years that "Hot Topics" are often hi-jacked by someone/some group with a personal, professional or political bias or agenda. They then often have the articles protected to some degree. This frustrates many readers that would like to remind these folks that everyone is entitled to their viewpoint and opinion but not entitled to their own set of facts. An encyclopedic resource must contain ONLY facts to develop and maintain credibility. Sadly, Wikipedia has permitted opinion articles to be passed off to the public as fact. The holding of ANY professional certification does not deem that individual's opinions as irrefutable. Why are some citations permitted as fact simply because they are the words of a doctor, scientist or whomever? i.e. https://dx.doi.org/10.1128%2FCMR.00018-09 which was an article cited in a Wikipedia entry as evidence the contellation of symptoms commonly referred to as Morgellon's has no physiologic basis and is "actually (as the truth or facts of a situation; really) a form of delusional disorder."..."the fixed belief of being infested with pathogens AGAINST ALL MEDICAL EVIDENCE." If you really want to understand the ridiculousness of that definition you must poll individuals suffering this affliction. It would undoubtedly (by this researcher) be determined that a very low percentage of sufferers are offered relevant medical tests that would support or deny their claims. The cited article goes on to admit that "CONCLUSIVE CLINICAL TRIALS...ARE WIDELY LACKING" I am calling on Wikipedia to refrain from protecting articles that have no solid foundation on fact. I can well understand why many people would become enraged at the false information being presented as fact in your Morgellon's Disease entries. More than that they enjoy an undeserved degree of protection from editing. Reading the Wikipedia definition of Morgellon's Disease is what sent me from increasingly dissatisfied reader to editing activist. I will no longer remain silent while the "actual" facts on important issues are swept aside by so called intellectuals citing various professionals. It is the height of arrogance to believe something cannot exist simply because it is outside one's personal scope of understanding or experience. I am well aware that combative confrontation is counter productive. I will attempt to develop the art of persuasion and hilite the preponderance of factual evidence. I look forward to working with and learning from the Wikipedia community.