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Re: Sad obituary

Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

>  I think that this tragic story is a good illustration of what can happen
> when people insist on believing what they want to believe:
> David Reimer
> (Filed: 13/05/2004)
> 
> 
> David Reimer, who committed suicide on May 4 aged 38, was the unwitting
> guinea pig in a notorious medical experiment known as the John/Joan case
> in the 1960s and 1970s.

Wasn't a recent documentary going on about how David wanted to shoot the
doctor who suggested raising David as a girl? Eventually he took his own
life which I think is unfair given that that other 'wise guy' played god.

Roy

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