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Also, I tripped my brother off the mountain...
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We'd be friends... but I'm afraid I'd end up with sars.
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11/25/09
Two problems though. One, using functional communication (bad science) to try and back up the brain scans (better science) could lead us to all sorts of misunderstandings of what we can learn from the scans.
Second, depending on what's actually going on in this poor guy's body, the dysfunctional communication could just be torturing him all the more if we're misinterpreting what's going on, possibly putting words in his mouth. And THAT is a travesty.
11/25/09
I'm not going to conclude he's a fraud though, but I will read whatever I find about this story as it's a very scary thought that this could happen to someone...
11/25/09
I feel fairly certain the only thing he is requesting is pornography.
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11/25/09
But when did he officially come out of the non-responsive coma? He obviously wasn't moving his foot "yes" or "no" for the past 23 years, right?
Come on reporter people! GIVE ME CONTEXT!
11/25/09
I don't know much about comas but I assume that in some cases there's some minor movement. The movement of his foot is probably only very slight so it likely never raised any red flags when he was in the "coma".
11/25/09
How frustrating. I'm doubting the foot movement even happened until after he had come out of the coma and they'd developed a means for him to communicate.