I don't think a healthy dose of skepticism makes anyone a lowlife. I'd be very interested to see the CDC's conclusions....specifically, how a mystery disease can cause common everyday fibers to suddenly erupt from the skin.
I am referring more to the innuendo on previous threads -- maybe this one, I haven't read much of it -- that people suffering this somehow brought it upon themselves by association with homosexuals, illegal immigrants, "the poor", are psychiatric cases or any of a number of other non sequiturs. (yes, having the disorder can make one depressed).
Incidentally, although detailed chemical analysis of the fibers has implicated cellulose, and much of the biological world is composed of cellulose, that doesn't mean that these are "common everyday fibers", or that the cellulose was created through a known biological process. That is where the intrigue lies. Some sort of "internal" process must create the fibers, as biopsies sometimes find them embedded in undisturbed tissue beneath the dermal level -- well under "fingernail scratch" depth.
Also, "These fibers exhibit a high degree of autofluorescence and are not textile derived" (from the morgellons.org website). I know who wrote that line and I know the kind of deductive reasoning that was made to arrive at the conclusion they are not derived from clothing. It is a very good case. No one has yet identified an external source for the striking red and blue fluorescent fibers nor do I feel they will.
There is a lot more to the disease than the fibers, which I won't go into now, but the fibers have proved to be an excellent marker. Now that the CDC is beginning a formal investigation (they have been contacted many times), and a University department is contributing resources, we might eventually find an etiology and treatment.