[thaumasiotes]

> There are over a dozen people involved with this, disregarding them all because of one controversial incident with one of them feels a bit extreme.

One controversial incident? This is an extremely common type of scam. There's always somebody claiming they can speak to your comatose or deceased loved one, and they're always scamming you. No, the coma communicators aren't more reliable than the ghost communicators. No, there is no reason you would ever expect someone in this field to be telling the truth, particularly not when they've been caught running the same scam in the past.

[ManuelKiessling]

The guy is not in coma – did you even read the paper?

[thaumasiotes]

He is in a coma in the sense that's relevant here:

> the patient, who was unable to move any muscles or even open his eyes

[zaarn]

That is not a coma, the brain has remained functional and isn't shut down like in a coma. The patient has ALS not something that degrades brain functionality itself.

[thaumasiotes]

None of that is relevant in any way. The patient's behavior is the same; it attracts the same scam, because the scam is premised solely on the behavior of not talking. Nobody cares why the person isn't talking. Autistic patients attract this scam too.

[Cthulhu_]

Bruh.

[wolverine876]

> There's always somebody claiming they can speak to your comatose or deceased loved one

That's a common scam? Where is that documented?

Even if it is, this report has evidence to the contrary.