correct. the invention of the terrifying and poo-covered "rope worm" beast is a product of this specific new-age strain of idiocy: patient zero for ropeworms (more on him later) had a "healthy" diet that caused him to expel gross shit he couldn't identify, so he associated this unknown thing with parasites named for the shapes of their bodies, something similar he'd already heard of.
but rope worms aren't the only things being pulled out of someone's ass! as they are wont to do, the hippies attempted to add legitimacy to the rope worm hoax by fabricating a
binomial nomenclature for this new species. once again, their knowledge of biology and biological terms is limited - all they know is that animals have latin names, which they learned from watching Wile E. Coyote chase Road Runner - so they transliterated "human rope worm" to "homo funis vermis" and presented it as 100% believable authentic science. this misinformation was propagated to the point where Google queries about rope worms contain more
horseshit than anti-horseshit:
the architects behind the rope worm epidemic are a pair of Russian goobers, Nikolai Gubarev and Alex Volinsky. Gubarev works for an occupational safety organization in his native Russia, and holds a patent for a eucalyptus/lemon enema; he patented this delicious cocktail shortly before he and his pal Gubarev uploaded their highly science-esque research paper on rope worms to arxiv.org, and of course, in this paper, it concludes that the only treatment for rope worms is a good euca-lemon ass plumbing several times a day.
for more information on the rope worm debacle, this article covers all the bullet points:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rope-worms-cest-la-merde/