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Isn't that one of the weirdest things ever?! I was reading about her on CNN this morning. I would have to say I was super squicked by reading that when baby Rebecca feeds, the mouth on the second head moves. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Eew. Looks like the CNN story must have gone into more depth than the New Scientist article!
I read about this on New Scientist yesterday, and was just *dying* to post it here. I hate it when Hatrack breaks.
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Isn't New Scientist great? It's my single favorite magazine, and my third or fourth favorite web destination.
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I have to say, this is the first time where I haven't clicked on a link in Hatrack out of the squick factor. Grats to Noemon. Even though it's probably an interesting read, I'm just too wussy.
(Also, I thought it was a WWN thing, too.)
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I was struck by how adorable the little girl is, except for her deformity. I want to see a post-surgery picture.
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I'll wait to see if she survives surgery. I have a feeling that separating a second head is at least slightly out of the ordinary gamut of surgical operations. Poor kid.
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Yeah... I just read about that before I came in here, Farmgirl. Very sad indeed. Poor little one.
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I hesitate to say this, but is it just me who feels a little creeped out by the title of the thread while mourning the loss of the girl?
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Well, I believe the thread was put up before her surgery. When I saw the title, I was about to berate everyone because I had found out she had died, but Farmgirl already mentioned it.
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the title is basically a sideshow heading, inviting people to come in and take a peek, with links later to pictures.
(And the title to the thread does not match the title to the article in the link)
Some people, even now, choose to be in sideshows. This wasn't her choice.
I'm really not trying to pick on people here in particular. I think this was a common phenomenon with how people reacted to the story. As a sideshow.
This girl never volunteered to be part of a sideshow. Come to think of it, her parents didn't either - they were just trying to save her. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Yeah, sndrake, you're completely right in this. Sorry about that. I've changed the title of the thread.
When I first read about this case, it didn't really seem real to me; it just struck me as being like something from the pages of the Weekly World News, so I tried to make a thread title that read like a Weekly World News headline. It was in poor taste both before and after her death, and I apologize.
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It's still pretty freaky. There are alot of jokes about death and stuff AFTER you find out that she's passed away. I know, no one could help it.
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quote:When I first read about this case, it didn't really seem real to me; it just struck me as being like something from the pages of the Weekly World News, so I tried to make a thread title that read like a Weekly World News headline. It was in poor taste both before and after her death, and I apologize.
Noemon,
Thanks for the change and the apology. I meant it when I said the way this went down was pretty much typical for the world in general. The press and, I think, even the doctors involved in the case, deserve most of the "credit" for the way this was treated.
This kind of treatment of these stories is an established tradition. So far, there have been no apologies from mainstream media that emphasized the "freakshow" aspect over the real "life and death" situation.
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