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The medical miracle that wasn't

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Rob Archer
Feb 20, 2010
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Remember the story of the medical breakthrough that researchers said they'd made, in which a brain-damaged man, thought to be brain-dead, was "communicating" to the outside world?

Turns out not to have been real. They were being scammed.

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