Posted by Deborah Flapan on December 5, 2000, at 8:50:43
In reply to Re: Location of Sense of Humor Discovered :-( :-(, posted by SLS on December 4, 2000, at 23:33:56
In response to several emails that I have received regarding the MedscapeWire news article "Location of Sense of Humor Discovered" (http://Radiology.medscape.com/MedscapeWire/2000/1100/medwire.1130.Location.html), I would like to clear up any misconceptions.
While the headline may have been a bit optimistic (because the data still need to be verified), the article itself is certainly not a hoax. The article was based on a press release from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), at whose annual meeting these data were presented. If you would like to verify this information further, I suggest contacting the RSNA directly. Their Web site is http://www.rsna.org/.
As Dr. Dean K. Shibata, the principal investigator of the study, said in a previous posting, he performed the study and presented the data at the RSNA meeting. Dr. Shibata is an assistant professor of radiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York. I hope this clears up the matter.
Please note that posting a Medscape article to a bulletin board service may be in violation of Medscape's copyright. In the future, please contact the Medscape permissions department (permissions@mail.medscape.com) to receive permission before posting Medscape material. A better way to bring the article to the attention of BBS members is to post the title and URL of the article. Those who wish to read the article can click on the URL.
Thank you for your interest in Medscape.
Sincerely,
Deborah Flapan
Associate Editor
Medscape Inc
dflapan@medscapeinc.com> To whom it may concern:
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> I still can't believe the reaction my silly little post has provoked. I can't possibly be that pursuasive. Obviously, I can't possibly be that funny. :-<
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> I read the article and thought it was great.
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> I can't apologize enough. I can hardly believe what's happened.
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> If anyone is in contact with those individuals personally involved in this situation, please extend to them my profuse apologies. I promise that I will never tell another joke for as long as I live. I plan to remove and burn both my anterior frontal cortices and my worthless nucleus accumbens. I will then sprinkle their ashes over my keyboard.
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> Sincerely,
> Scott
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