LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM

Glenn has posted a statement from the American Council of Science and Health denoncing as "junk science" any assertion that challenges the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo is PVS and attacking Dr. William Chesire. The statement mischaracterizes Chesire's affidavit, which did not provide a "new diagnosis" at all, but rather concluded that "there was reasonable doubt on the prior diagnosis of PVS."

--Hugh Hewitt at HughHewitt.com


Based on the evidence, I believe that, within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, there is a greater likelihood that Terri is in a minimally conscious state than in a persistent vegetative state.

--page 6 of the affidavit by Dr. William Cheshire, which Hewitt says does "not provide a 'new diagnosis' at all"