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  • dang50 days ago
    I wanted to put this in the second-chance pool but it&#x27;s a bit too old, so I&#x27;ve spawned a new copy of the post and will merge the (relevant) comments there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46318544">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46318544</a>
    • ChrisArchitect50 days ago
      Second chance? It&#x27;s not like it didn&#x27;t get any attention or comments first time, less than 2 weeks ago...
      • dang50 days ago
        It didn&#x27;t get enough.
  • zerofor_conduct59 days ago
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0MFPK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0MFPK</a>
  • cafard55 days ago
    Capitalize &quot;Sacks&quot;, please.
  • 51256 days ago
    Maybe a better source, linked in the article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;oliver-sacks-p...</a>
    • tomhow56 days ago
      We’ve updated it, thanks!
      • slater55 days ago
        And also capitalize his name: sacks -&gt; Sacks
    • minitech56 days ago
      Weirdly, what’s currently linked in the article is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;oliver-sacks-case-studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;oliver-sacks-c...</a>, which doesn’t exist.<p>Unrelated(?) classiness:<p>&gt; In his own journals, Sacks admitted he had given his patients &quot;powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have.&quot; Some details, he acknowledged, were &quot;pure fabrications.&quot;<p>— post<p>&gt; But, in his journal, Sacks wrote that “a sense of hideous criminality remains (psychologically) attached” to his work: he had given his patients “powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have.” Some details, he recognized, were “pure fabrications.”<p>— New Yorker article
    • neom56 days ago
      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0MFPK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0MFPK</a>