Filmmaker
Penny Lane has made a documentary about Morgellons Disease called "The
Pain of Others", which approaches the subject matter from a totally
different perspective than our film
"Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons." But Ms. Lane has spoken up in
her latest interview in Filmmaker Magazine: "The mainstream says
there’s nothing physiological happening and that it is all a delusion,
but the mainstream is often wrong. I won’t pretend to take the blatant
pseudoscience or conspiracy theories seriously; that is not required of
me intellectually or ethically. But I do believe there is a real
possibility that there exists a skin condition producing the fibers that
are the key diagnostic of Morgellons. A small number of scientists are
investigating this very plausible theory, despite the scorn heaped upon
them by the mainstream. In the meantime, a lot of people whose suffering
and pain is not currently understood by their doctors to be “real” are
drawn toward the clarity of a Morgellons (or chronic Lyme, or ME, or
MCS) diagnosis. As Anne Carson said (I think), 'One of the principle
qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.'"