Comments on: “Persistent vegetative state” not quite what we thought http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2010/02/04/persistent-vegetative-state-not-quite-what-we-thought/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Suricou Raven http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2010/02/04/persistent-vegetative-state-not-quite-what-we-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-5162 Suricou Raven Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:14:02 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=8254#comment-5162 You shouldn't get your hopes up just yet. This field has a history of over-hypeing findings and even of outright frauds like some practitioners of facilitated communication - they can basically operate the patient's hands like an ouija board without even realising it. Plus fMRI isn't a very reliable technology - one operator was able to detect signs of human-like brain activity in a dead salmon when he attempted to demonstrate the machine's propensity for false positives. Wait for independant verification and only then start the celebrations. You shouldn’t get your hopes up just yet. This field has a history of over-hypeing findings and even of outright frauds like some practitioners of facilitated communication – they can basically operate the patient’s hands like an ouija board without even realising it. Plus fMRI isn’t a very reliable technology – one operator was able to detect signs of human-like brain activity in a dead salmon when he attempted to demonstrate the machine’s propensity for false positives.

Wait for independant verification and only then start the celebrations.

]]> By: NOx monitor http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2010/02/04/persistent-vegetative-state-not-quite-what-we-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-5157 NOx monitor Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:33:51 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=8254#comment-5157 This is astonishing! Perhaps this can lead to some cure in the future, since doctors are able to communicate with them. I still think that miracles can still happen. We don't know what the future holds. But we know who holds the future. Lets give these patients and their families some hope. This is astonishing! Perhaps this can lead to some cure in the future, since doctors are able to communicate with them. I still think that miracles can still happen. We don’t know what the future holds. But we know who holds the future. Lets give these patients and their families some hope.

]]>