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I Had My Doubts About This

That boy who, with his father, wrote a book describing his experience of heaven after a near-fatal accident has now says the story was false. 

These return-from-the-dead stories appear from time to time, and I usually find them both intriguing and puzzling. But they aren't all equally plausible, and this one struck me as less so than others–based on what I read about it, that is, as I haven't read the book. So I can't say I'm very surprised by this turn. (And yes, his name makes it a little funny.)

Maclin Horton
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5 responses to “I Had My Doubts About This”

  1. Louise

    A sorry tale

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  2. Art Deco

    The publisher is being taken to task by professional scolds for not having withdrawn the book in May 2014 on the basis of 3d hand information that the youth in question had retracted it. Also, the parents of the boy are divorced with the mother accusing the father of trading in a money-grubbing fiction (though the youth admits he lied). At least three or four sorry tales here, with the youngster in question and his father protagonists in one, the warring mother and father in another, the professional scolds in a third, and the credulous publishers in a fourth.

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  3. Louise

    I agree. Not just one sorry tale. The divorce just adds another sorry dimension.

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  4. Mac

    Sorry indeed. And where would we be without professional scolds? Good that they’re on the case.

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  5. Art Deco

    And where would we be without professional scolds?
    About the same place we are now. Critical assessment of published work is all to the good. Picking targets and trolling their work to find material to damage their reputations is a dubious self-aggrandizing enterprise (of people who are not producing anything of their own). Think Norman Finkelstein.

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