That's why I don't bother with any wild mushrooms. I've heard of people getting poisoned because they assumed someone else perfromed the proper ID techniques. I heard an example just a few months back where a group of Mycologists where poisoned, 1 died and 2 will never fully recover.
I have a friend in the northwest who will pick and eat many different varieties. I refuse to eat them. To me, it's just not worth it.
I know morels are fairly easy to correctly identify, but this is the first I've heard of "false morels". I don't doubt that they were correctly identified as such either.