Public entomologists struggle with an epidemic of delusional parasitosis
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2GY13)
Dr Gale Ridge is a public entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, where an average of 23 people a day call, write or visit; an increasing proportion of them aren't inquiring about actual insects, they're suffering from delusional parasitosis, and they're desperate and even suicidal. (more")