(2023-02-23, 09:36 PM)tim Wrote: It's a ridiculous paper. He's saying that Parnia's patients weren't really dead because they weren't brain dead. Well you can't study patient's reports when they're brain dead, because they don't have any, they're brain dead and can't report anything, obviously.
The implications are that Parnia and everyone else studying cardiac arrest NDEs should just stop as they will never be able to provide any evidence to suit this critic, by definition.
That sort of attitude comes in a very similar category to that of "I wouldn't believe it even if it were true".