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To: Catholic and Conservative
I'm not going to debate this anymore. It's so pedantic - live glial cells, dead ones... isolated, where... The point remains:

Matt quoted the ruling, so he wasn't lying, and with regard to your quote, the cerebral cortex is only a part of each cerebral hemisphere.
304 posted on 03/09/2005 3:11:29 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: Trinity_Tx

I have already said Matt was not lying about the court ruling; although he was telling the truth about what the court said, what the court said was false.

With regard to my quote, you need to read it again, the 40% refers to the cortex.

Please name one other doctor in this supposed debate who claims that Terri has no living neurons left in her cerebral cortex. In the court transcript, I saw no one but Dr. Cranford making this claim. It is clear that Drs. Hammasfher and Maxfield do not believe Terri has just "a small amount of isolated living tissue ... or no living tissue in her cerebral cortex", so the court was simply wrong when it said these were the only opinions doctors hold. I would guess that Dr. Bambakidis does not believe this either, based on the testimony I quoted in #303.

The word "isolated" matters because if indeed her cerebral cortex consisted of patches of living neurons separated by scar tissue, her prognosis would be worse if there were no synaptic connections between cells in different patches. The court seems to be going beyond the testimony offered by its five experts.


306 posted on 03/09/2005 9:50:18 PM PST by Catholic and Conservative
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