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We Were Right : Sadly4 comments

duncanr wrote 2 years ago: rom houben and his motherLast November a Belgian man who had been in a vegetative state for 20+ year … more →

Tags: forum, media

Rom Houben wasn't communicating after all.

Bastard Sheep wrote 2 years ago: Three months ago I wrote a blog post both here and at Young Australian Skeptics about the case of Ro … more →

Tags: Skepticism, Young Australian Skeptics, Facilitated communication

Coma 'writer' Rom Houben can't communicate, after all3 comments

eideard wrote 2 years ago: Daylife/AP Photo used by permission A Belgian man who stunned the world last year by apparently comm … more →

Tags: Science, technology, health, Consciousness, Facilitator, Communication, Steven Laurys

Rom Houben coma update.1 comment

teammccallum wrote 2 years ago: Last year TeamMcCallum reported on Rom Houben, a man who had been trapped for 23 years in a ‘c … more →

Tags: Steven Laureys, coma

News From Around The Blogosphere 2.15.104 comments

mjr256 wrote 2 years ago: 1. Ken Ham doesn’t understand why real museums don’t get mocked for featuring saddled di … more →

Tags: pseudoscience, intelligent design/creationism, Entertainment, Atheism, News From Around The Blogosphere, atheist charity work, Ken Ham, ORAC, Jim Carrey

Facilitated Communication Case Fails to Deliver1 comment

Scepticon wrote 2 years ago: The indefatigable Dr. Novella has been keeping track of the Facilitated Communication case of Rom Ho … more →

Tags: Warped Science, Questionable Techniques, Science, Psychological, Hoaxes, Skepticism, SciBlogs, Facilitated communication, Health And Medicine

Coma - who can we trust?

teammccallum wrote 2 years ago: The New England Journal of Medicine has just published a report to the effect that out of 54 patient … more →

Tags: brain, Fina Houben, Steven Laureys, coma, Geraint Rees, Adrian Owen

Trapped2 comments

firelady16 wrote 2 years ago: By K. Oxendine-Hunt In Newsweek, Ford Vox writes that last year, the world came to know Rom Houben, … more →

Tags: Dr. Steven Laureys

How reliable are persistent vegetative state diagnoses?5 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 2 years ago: Check out this article from The Weekly Standard. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: The case of Terri Schiavo– … more →

Tags: Commentary, Pro-Life, Secularism, Morality, Bioethics, Right to Life, compassion, euthanasia, ethics

In The News4 comments

battleroyalewithcheese wrote 2 years ago: Anyone reading the news this week could not help but be moved by the story of Rom Houben, a 46-year- … more →

Tags: Reviews, News, julian schnabel, WAI, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

>Lo creyeron en coma por 23 años… pero él escuchaba todo y no se podía mover

rpcbk wrote 2 years ago: > De ACIPRENSA Rom Houben sufrió un accidente automovilístico en 1983 y los médicos lo declararon … more →

Tags: Vida

Rom Houben : Hoax ?9 comments

duncanr wrote 2 years ago: A few days ago, Madhatters put up a post telling the tale of Rom Houben – a Belgium man who ha … more →

Tags: forum, media, Brain Dead

Man trapped in 23-year "coma" misdiagnosed3 comments

Blaise Alleyne wrote 2 years ago: Reminder: come see Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coaltion, speak … more →

Tags: Euthanasia - Assisted Suicide, misdiagnoses, coma, permanent vegetative state, Consciousness

Persistent Vegetative States and the Problem with Facilitated Communication2 comments

Scepticon wrote 2 years ago: If you read the print version of the NZ Herald today you would have seen featured on the front page … more →

Tags: Science, Psychological, Skepticism, SciBlogs, Medicine, Facilitated communication, Health And Medicine, Science and Society, PVs

CNN duped by 'facilitated communication'

mjr256 wrote 2 years ago: Many years ago, so-called “Facilitated Communication” was thoroughly debunked. The idea … more →

Tags: pseudoscience, CNN, Facilitated communication, Belgium

A deep sleep

creepo wrote 2 years ago: I have lived in this earth for 28 years and in a near future 29. All these years I have interacted w … more →

Tags: Comment, vegetative state, Pablo Emilio Moncayo, FARC

When care givers go bad.3 comments

Bastard Sheep wrote 2 years ago: (This was also posted at YoungAusSkeptics.com) The news sites are going crazy right now about a Belg … more →

Tags: Skepticism, Young Australian Skeptics, Facilitated communication

Complete Paralysis

G. S. Feet wrote 2 years ago: The guy at the left is Rom Houben. He had a car wreck when he was 20 and for the next 23 years, ever … more →

Tags: Disasters at Home, medical disasters, Premature Burial, coma, paralysis

Man Was Awake During 23-Year 'Coma'1 comment

Kreuzer33 wrote 2 years ago: Wow! It turns out that a Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative stat … more →

Tags: coma, Coma Awake, houben, University of Liege, Liege's Coma Science Group, minimally conscious state, vegetative state


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