He's A Crip. She's In A Coma. And You're Sick.

"Rom Houben’s story has grown to encapsulate the plight of those with disorders of consciousness, our attempts to better assess and communicate with them through advancing technology, and the mischief that can still be caused by lingering pseudosciences. It is truly a scandal that [facilitated communication] is still around. Like homeopathy, therapeutic touch, and many similar medical pseudosciences – their persistence is not a failure of science, which has adequately shown them to be nothing but illusions, but rather of collective rationality."

-- Steven Novella, on the debunking of the "Coma Man" story - another bit of The Ol' Mystic Mayhem In Medicine - proving global warming ain't the only area of science in need of some serious looking into, by CHQR AM770's The World Tonight.