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Boston Globe: "Science closes in on mystery." YES!

The fact that there IS Science, does not negate the role of Mystery. So many folks seem to think that anything lacking an accepted explanation must be for the birds, a mere mystery, anecdotal, voodoo -- stuff like that. (Recall the shrieking indignation that greeted the Intelligent Chip.)

Science closes in on mystery
December 31, 2005

With the recent detection of unusual patterns in the brains of
people who stutter, scientists are moving closer to the roots of a
problem that throughout human history has been as persistent as it
is mysterious.

''Stuttering is a pretty wild disorder," said Adriana diGrande, a
Boston University speech therapist who has been treating stutterers
for 30 years. ''I had a client who went to England with her friend,
and put on a British accent. She said she didn't stutter in
England. A lot of my clients are excellent singers, and when they
sing they don't stutter."

Most stutterers are men, by a ratio of at least 3 to 1. Stuttering
also appears to run in families. National Institutes of Health
researchers are studying a family in Cameroon with 100 known
members, 45 of whom stutter. Some speak three languages -- English,
French, and a Bantu language called Bamileke -- and stutter in all
three.

Stuttering has been ascribed to everything from an overly dry
tongue to unresolved Freudian conflicts. But today...

STEPHEN HEUSER


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Topic - Boston Globe: "Science closes in on mystery." YES! - clarkjohnsen 09:00:28 12/31/05 (99)
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