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Report: Man with Almost No Brain Has Led Normal Life
Fox News ^
| 7/25/2007
| FOX NEWS
Posted on 07/25/2007 10:08:05 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9
French doctors are amazed that a 44-year-old civil servant with an abnormally small brain has led a normal life with a slightly lower than normal IQ........
Doctors said the father of two went to the Hopital de la Timone in Marseille with mild weakness in his left leg. He was given a CT scan and an MRI, which showed that his cerebral cavities or ventricles had massively expanded..........
"The brain itself, meaning the grey matter and white matter, was completely crushed against the sides of the skull," ....... "The images were most unusual... the brain was virtually absent."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: brain
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To: NY.SS-Bar9
Wow, and all this time I ws thinking this was a requirement for anyone in public office.....
Meadow Muffin
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:15:01 AM PDT
by
rwgal
To: TexasRepublic
Why? There is nothing to see...
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:15:15 AM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(Fred Thompson has cooties, neener neener neener...)
To: Hacklehead
Insert name of Democrat of choice. Ha! As soon as I saw the headline on this article, I figured it would take less than ten posts before the "D" word showed up!
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:16:01 AM PDT
by
hunter112
(Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Another story about a politician???
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:16:59 AM PDT
by
TBP
To: NY.SS-Bar9
The condition ... is a genetically sporadic disorder that occurs ... mostly in females. We knew that.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:17:03 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: antiRepublicrat
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:17:28 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)
To: Dr. Frank fan
Yes, people were SO sure that they could tell Schiavo's personhood by looking at the size of her brain. They were being scientific doing this. I do respect science, but there really is a lot of hubris in it.
If you look back, there's a trail of errors: Alchemy, Miasma theory, Mesmer, Phrenology, Eugenics, etc. Now, really that's what makes science what it is. They get things wrong, they learn more, they make corrections, they move ahead. I wouldn't want it any other way!
However, if one were to hint that maybe the oh-so-wise scientist is wrong about something, they often get huffy and do the old: "Do you know who you're talking to??" bit.
There is, in fact, a lot left to learn. And some of what we know, well it just ain't so.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:18:13 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
The resilience of the human body never ceases to amaze me.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:18:15 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Explains why politicians live so long.
To: NY.SS-Bar9
"Report: Man with Almost No Brain Has Led Normal Life"
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:18:40 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: NY.SS-Bar9
I thought this about Jimmy Carter....
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:17 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: NY.SS-Bar9
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:18 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("You can't strengthen a zero, it will always equal zero." --Avigdor Lieberman)
To: 1035rep
“Ok, I’ll start......Harry Reid.”
Darn. You got there first.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:18 AM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Well, according to popular thought we don't use even 10% of the brain we have at present.
I would imagine that a person with a much smaller brain might learn to use more of it.
I wuld think they might want to study this guy to see if there was a way to use more of the normal size brain.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:19 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Another article about Dennis Kucinich?
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:33 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Now if most civil servants could just find a way to rise to his level, they wouldn’t need their socialist unions.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:19:43 AM PDT
by
weeder
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Great pictures, but they won’t matter a whit to teh “compassionate” crowd. They hve no respect for life and don’t care about people, so why should somethign as trivial as evidence change their views?
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:20:03 AM PDT
by
TBP
To: NY.SS-Bar9; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:21:01 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("You can't strengthen a zero, it will always equal zero." --Avigdor Lieberman)
To: NY.SS-Bar9
"...the brain was virtually absent."
Funny - the very same affliction can be found en masse on Capitol Hill.
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:22:14 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
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To: antiRepublicrat
“Talk about an environment ripe for jokes.”
LOL! You said it!
“Al gore’s MRI?”
“Michael Moore?”
etc.,etc......Have a ball!
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posted on
07/25/2007 10:24:12 AM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
(If not Fred, who?....If not now, when?)
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