(2017-10-10, 05:05 PM)chuck Wrote: You are pointing to the Live Science article!
Do you understand the difference between a direct quote and an indirect quote? A direct quote is enclosed in quote marks. That is something that can be attributed word for word to the speaker. With an indirect quote the author, in this case Mindy, summarizes something that they feel Parnia has said.
https://www.livescience.com/60593-flatli...ation.html
Even if Parnia did say that, can you see that he would be wrong given the studies I referenced? Showing pupillary response during CPR isn't like trying to find the Higgs Boson. It would seem to be pretty cut and dried.
I don't need Parnia to declare something as fact before I can draw a conclusion from some fairly straightforward published scientific studies.
"I don't need Parnia to declare something as fact before I can draw a conclusion from some fairly straightforward published scientific studies."
The conclusion being that some changes in pupil width occur when some blood is forced back into the brain with CPR ? Just because there might have been some changes in the reflex (in those studies) doesn't mean that the reflexes have been restored.
And even if they are restored, it doesn't mean that the patient automatically regains consciousness.