Re: [escepticos] Más sobre el belga en coma

[Carlos Dominguez]

Hay más.Esta vez "Respectful Insolence" propone al de Desiree Jennings
"el peor reportaje del año...quizás de la década"
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/11/another_contender_for_the_worst_reportin.php?utm_source=networkbanner&utm_medium=link

También Steve Novella escribe sobre el  caso:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2838

Saludetes
Carolus
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El día 24 de noviembre de 2009 19:01, Carlos Dominguez
<neuroglia.esceptica en gmail.com> escribió:
> Perdón, se me escapó una "k" no sé de donde. Me refiero a Scott
> Lilienfeld, obviamente.
>
> Saludetes
> Carolus
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> El día 24 de noviembre de 2009 19:00, Carlos Dominguez
> <neuroglia.esceptica en gmail.com> escribió:
>> Entre los comentarios al post de PZ, está éste sobre los mapeos
>> cerebrales  de personas en estados vegetativos que me parece
>> interesante:
>> Las técnicas de  imagenes diagnósticas en estos casos deben ser tomada
>> con escepticismo, y la "comunicación facilitada" ya es sabido que es
>> charlatanería (Lilkienfeld se dedicó a ella in extenso)-
>>
>> Posted by: corpus.callosum | November 24, 2009 1:48 PM
>>
>> Wahoo, finally a Neuroscience story allowing me to go from
>> enthusiastic Pharyngula-reader to commenter :D
>>
>> Laureys is not a kook. He's got strong opinions that aren't widely
>> accepted, but the vegetative / minimally conscious / comatose arena is
>> hugely complex and there are's no consensus about a lot of these
>> tests. The best - and shortest - article I've read on the subject is
>> this one.
>>
>> http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/pascal.benquet/index_fichiers/science%20FRMI%20vegetatif.pdf
>>
>> This is an fMRI study where a minimally conscious (ie, no behavioural
>> responses at all) patient's neural activity was compared to that of a
>> healthy control, while performing mental imagery tasks, such as
>> 'imagine yourself playing tennis'. They show activity in very similar
>> brain areas (though reduced in intensity), which is unlikely just to
>> be due to hearing the task instructions... it's far more likely that
>> this activity is produced by *following* those instructions. Where
>> there's someone to listen and obey instructions, there's something
>> like a conscious agent locked inside, who can hear and respond. No FC
>> here, and no wild claims, but a distinct possibility that all is not
>> what it seems in this patient.
>>
>> Saludetes
>> carolus
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> El día 24 de noviembre de 2009 18:39, Carlos Dominguez
>> <neuroglia.esceptica en gmail.com> escribió:
>>> PZ Myers también piensa lo mismo que Randi y razones no le faltan a
>>> ninguno de los dos
>>> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/11/really_this_guy_is_conscious.php
>>>
>>> Saludetes
>>> Carolus
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>>>
>>> El día 24 de noviembre de 2009 16:32, José María Mateos
>>> <chema en rinzewind.org> escribió:
>>>> Hola:
>>>>
>>>> La JREF tiene un artículo bastante largo explicando el asunto del
>>>> belga supuestamente "atrapado" en un coma durante 23 años sin poder
>>>> comunicarse:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/783-this-cruel-farce-has-to-stop.html
>>>>
>>>> Un saludo.
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