After finding "fibres" on my own hand, I'm fairly satisfied morgellons is some 21st-century genre of OCD spread through the internet and the fibres are – as Wymore's labs report – particles of everyday, miscellaneous stuff: cotton, human hair, rat hair and so on.
And a rat, scurrying across the back of the room halfway through the 19-minute video (at about 9mins 55secs).
Articles on the New York Times from 24 March and 21 June 2013, gave further details and an article in the London Review of Books from 14 April 12014, implicated MI6 in a "rat line" for the transfer of arms from Libya.
Of course, lying on a beach or in a hammock has always offered something of a respite from the rat race.
More recently, place cells have also been found to code "time", clocking how many seconds a rat has been running on a wheel.
John O'Keefe – who shares this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – once jokingly told me that he was searching for the soul of the rat, but missed and struck lucky with his discovery of place cells – a kind of "you are here" mapping signal in the brain.
Well, some people … Related: Russell Tovey: 'I was a scared, skinny little rat.
Because they know they'll be asked, if they do rat on a classmate, the kids begin to auto-correct halfway through.
"We had a puppet rat to do that".
When the rat was first sighted – scurrying across the doorstep of Number 10 as the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue did a piece to camera – David Cameron's people were adamant.
It looked shiny, it looked new, it wasn't an old pub with a club night upstairs that smelled like a rat hole.
