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"He "did nominate" Hammesfahr only if you think I could write a letter nominating you for a Nobel Prize which would constitute a real nomination. "

As far as I know, you are not a member of the House of Representatives. The fact is Dr. Hammesfahr was nominated by a member of the US House of Representatives.

It would be nice if you went after Doctor Death with the same ferocity as you attack Dr. Hammesfahr. There's a lot of dirt on Dr. Cranford. You don't seem to mind that Felos has a Doctor that never sides with life.

"But the star medical witness for Michael Schiavo, Dr. Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, has repeatedly dismissed calls for MRI testing, and his opinion has prevailed.

Dr. Cranford was the principal medical witness brought in by Schiavo and Felos to support their position that Terri was PVS.

But before that, one needs to know a little about Cranford’s background and perspective: Dr. Ronald Cranford is one of the most outspoken advocates of the “right to die” movement and of physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. today.

In published articles, including a 1997 op-ed in the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune, he has advocated the starvation of Alzheimer’s patients.

In cases where other doctors don’t see it, Dr. Cranford seems to have a knack for finding PVS. Cranford also diagnosed Robert Wendland as PVS. He did so in spite of the fact that Wendland could pick up specifically colored pegs or blocks and hand them to a therapy assistant on request. He did so in spite of the fact that Wendland could operate and maneuver an ordinary wheelchair with his left hand and foot, and an electric wheelchair with a joystick, of the kind that many disabled persons (most famously Dr. Stephen Hawking) use. Dr. Cranford dismissed these abilities as meaningless. Fortunately for Wendland, the California supreme court was not persuaded by Cranford’s assessment."

As far as I know, you are not a member of the House of Representatives. The fact is Dr. Hammesfahr was nominated by a member of the US House of Representatives.

That would mean something, if a member of the US House of Representatives was entitled to nominate someone for a Nobel Prize in Physiology by virtue of that status. Since they are not, it may as well be me writing the letter.

I have made multiple complaints about Cranford throughout this thing. If he had been even close to the only one with that diagnosis, it would have been a complete outrage. But the judges were faced with all her other doctors, 2 at that trial, agreeing with him.

On the Schindler side, was a radiologist, who couldn't even distinguish between PVS and Coma, and the National Enquirer Advertising, Quackwatch listed, Nobel Lying Hammesfahr - who equivocated about those things as well as his observations of Terri at trial.

To expect the judges to have found the last 2 more credible than all the others is irrational.

Re Hammesfahr's nomination:
(notice it is a nomination for a "Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine" and that there is no such thing.)

The reason being a Nobel Prize nominee is such an honor is *because* it is so very rare, due to the very tough guidelines about who nominates and how many.
It is the highest standard of Peer Review. Politicians are not peers in the sciences, so they can only nominate for Peace - that is their area.

Hammesfahr fraudulently tries to pass himself off as someone who deserves that rare level of honor. His only true claim to "peer review" is a complete joke, as he has it listed on his page (link on my page) - something like 3-4 local Floridians he shares patient referrals with, one or 2 of them not even doctors.
He outright lies about her heart condition and her neck "injury" all the time. Quotes showing how on my page.