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."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I expected to see a lot more pictures of Democrats by this point in the thread.....
The decerebrate are thriving in the national and state crapitals all across America.
No - that is NOT a typo.
This happens. But scientists themselves, by and large, have an appropriate amount of humility.
The real problem is when lay people seize upon some "scientific" thing they heard and insist not only that it be taken as gospel truth, but that public policy be based upon it. Schiavo was just one example.
Global warming is another - because some scientists have made computer models of the oceano-atmospheric system, and those computer models predict a warming trend driven by CO2 emissions, a whole faction of lay people seem ready to revamp our entire economic system and fix it around the single goal of minimizing CO2 emissions. This isn't "science", it's scientism.
If you talk to the actual scientists working on these models, most of them would be very careful to hedge their predictions with a lot of caveats and assumptions. But those caveats are stripped away by the time they reach an Al Gore speech, and to me, that's the real problem.
The man in question was a lifelong bureaucrat.
While it may be "normal" for bureaucrats and politicians, it not the same as normal in the productive sector of the earth's populaton.
No, that was not the primary basis for Schiavo’s diagnosis. Her EEG indicated virtually no activity in her brain AND most of her former brain was mush.
The possibilities are endless.
This condition must be common among liberals.
And this means, scientifically, that she was not a person. Right?
p.s. Is "mush" a medical term?
If fact, the debat is not over. Is man the cause? We don't know. If a politician like Al Gore makes a speech saying he knows all about the situation, I accept that behavior. It's what politicians do. But that man is being aided by a lot of scientists, and they seem to have contempt for people who doubt their pet theory.
Personally, I think we are in a time period where science has become more politicized than it ought to be.
must have had a twin, cause I was thinking 2004!
Made me think of you.
“Mush” is as scientific a term as “person” :-)
I thought this was another thread about John Kerry!!!!
Hubby was a civil servant (USPostal Service) and his favorite civil servant joke is: What’s the difference between a civil servant and a chess player? Ans: A chess player moves once in a while.
Yes, there are some scientists who behave this way. In general, seems like with global warming there's been a perverse feedback: certain politicians seized upon the science because they think its ramifications fits their ideology; scientists in return enjoy the attention and authority the politicians bestow upon them, and (in many cases) inflate the certitude of their predictions.
A-ha! Good point. What you're saying is that the notion of "personhood" cannot be defined with scientific precision in the first place.
Would've been a good thing for scientists to emphasize before they weighed in on the Schiavo matter, and before "science" was used by large #s of commentators to "prove" she was no longer a person, eh?
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