Film Threat Podcast host Chris Gore invited the editor/director of Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons, Pi Ware, to discuss arrogance in the medical industry and the patterns of denial that happen when doctors are faced with emerging diseases. Ware’s documentary is an investigation into the controversial subject of Morgellons disease, an illness in which fibers grow out of a patient’s skin, but an illness that many doctors say is “all in the patient’s head.” However, says Ware, the victim-blaming that occurs when doctors find medically unexplained symptoms in their patients isn’t a new trend among physicians.
“There is proof that [Morgellons] fibers are made by the body, but the medical industry just doesn’t believe it. So why would they look further at it?” Ware continues, “The film is meant not just to show that Morgellons Disease is real, but to show that there’s a pattern of medical denialism. And we need to bring this pattern into the larger focus, the larger conversation about healthcare. As you can see, COVID-19 is being denied by a lot of people online, if you have friends on your Facebook feed that say this is a giant hoax, you can see patterns of medical denialism happening right here, right now, with much more well-known diseases that we’re all dealing with. But it’s happened for years, for decades, for centuries. And it’s time for Morgellons disease to get its due.”
Watch the entire conversation between Pi Ware and host Chris Gore—who can’t believe the patronizing treatment one of the film’s skeptical dermatologists gives his patients—here: Film Threat Podcast - Battle Over Morgellons
