On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 03:45:11 (-0800) Doyle Saylor writes: >Greetings Economists, >Bill Lear writes, >What nonsense is this? As I posted on Friday, the neurologist who >examined Terri Schiavo, in detail, flatly refutes this: > > Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist and medical ethicist at the > University of Minnesota Medical School who has examined > Ms. Schiavo on behalf of the Florida courts and declared her to > be irredeemably brain-damaged, said [...] there was no doubt > that Ms. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state. "Her CAT > scan shows massive shrinkage of the brain," he said. "Her EEG is > flat - flat. There's no electrical activity coming from her > brain." > >Doyle, >I don't understand what is nonsense about saying that. ...
What is nonsense is that the claim was made that "No brain scan or MRI is used to confirm this neurological diagnosis". This directly refutes this. >... >this is just a brief moment in which Bill Lear seems upset by some minor >point from the disabled rights side. ... If you can't get your basic facts straight, Doyle, don't bother posting, as you are wasting everyone's time. I was responding to a factual claim, made by Lennard J. Davis in the Chicago Tribune. Adrienne said the article "addresses some of the scientific medical issues surrounding brain damage and the labeling of Schiavo's condition", when in fact it made an outrageously false claim, not "some minor point", as you claim, disingenuously. The left, whatever that is, requires at the very least honest debate. Spewing outlandish and readily refuted falsehoods is a sure path to disaster. Bill
