UK nurse flogs book on near death experiences

[Deetee]

I read about a nurse who is selling a book on near death experience in the UK. She charges £85 - that's a lot of $$$, on the pretence that it is a serious scientific study of the subject.

Yet what has she done in 5 years of study? Got 15 people to tell her stories about floating in the air and seeing tunnels of light, that's what.

She says, based on her no doubt "extensive" foray into the neuroscience reseach field, that

"All the current sceptical arguments against near-death experiences were not supported by the [her] research."

Cute.

She now intends to continue her research into the phenomenon and is developing a private theory, not included in her book, about what could be happening to these patients.

Yeah - and sell that book for £85 as well, no doubt.

I wonder why on earth the BBC have given this woo the oxygen of publicity for her book promotion.

 

[godless dave]

I wonder why on earth the BBC have given this woo the oxygen of publicity for her book promotion.

Woo = ratings.

 

[aggle-rithm]

"Flogs"?

 

[Lothian]

Interesting Product description on Amazon

Research into near-death experiences (NDEs) is based on anecdotal accounts which have no medical data to verify proximity to death or support the reports

The forward is by a professor in Department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of Wales, the author of;
Christian beliefs about life after death
Religious and Near-death Experience in Relation to Belief in a Future Life and
Immortality or Extinction? which at 146 pages leads me to think he didn't go for the latter.

 

[666]

"Flogs"?

http://www.allwords.com/word-flog.html

(context, transitive, UK) To sell something.

 

[Alice Shortcake]

The phrase "flogging a dead horse" also springs to mind.

 

[AgeGap]

Oh, a clinical study. To be fair to her I have never heard of the book. It may have some interesting conclusions.

 

[Mojo]

I read about a nurse who is selling a book on near death experience in the UK. She charges £85 - that's a lot of $$$, on the pretence that it is a serious scientific study of the subject.

Maybe it's not expected to be a very long print run.

 

[mayday]

I wish you could find another word besides "woo."

That said, I think she is full of it. You can find much more interesting reads on the death bed visions thread over on the allnurses website.

 

[Foolinator]

Please be fair, as to the price, that is a pretty standard price for an academic text, quite cheap compared to some texts I deal with (I'm a university librarian in the UK) so let's just knock that rather peevish accusation on the head.
If you had ever been to university you should know that, it's not like a copy of Harry Potter (although you may regard the findings as believable ).

I too saw the beeb article and question the veracity of findings, will read before I dismiss off hand. It does concern me, however, that a) she has no actual clinical research track record that she mentions b) she admits to having a "private" explanation for NDE's that she doesn't reveal.

 

[Mojo]

I wish you could find another word besides "woo."

Damn that Rule 10.

 

[SusanB-M1]

She was being interviewed just before 01:00 on BBC Radio FiveLive this morning and was given quite a bit of air time. I did not hear the beginnin. She said she was a nurse in an Intensive Care Unit and had seen many people die. I thought she sounded rather pleased with herself, but that is not a fair comment as I could be quite wrong. The programme presenter was one I had not heard before and was standing in for the other one and his questions - or the ones that I heard - were too conciliatory I thought.

 

[aggle-rithm]

http://www.allwords.com/word-flog.html

(context, transitive, UK) To sell something.

Why come the Brits can't learn to speak Amurican like everbody else?

 

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Woo = ratings.

Regional BBC is desperate for stories so they can fill whatever quota they have to fill on the website, or on their poxy radio shows.

"Current science says it is a by-product of the brain. But it may be that consciousness is around us and the brain might be a mediator, an antenna, instead of controlling consciousness"

Note the use of 'may' and 'might', sounds like she is pretty convinced of her theory