It's not a worthless article. Don't judge it by my reading and remarks on it. Read it and judge for yourself; and explain why.
Forgot the link to the letter. Here's the last paragraph of the letter. The whole letter is "subscribers' only."
"Not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows cannot be faulted for not putting two and two together. But he was 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot be "a learning disability, a reading problem, [or] dyslexia," because patients with those problems have always had them. Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age. It runs about the same course as typical senile dementias, such as classical Alzheimer's—to incapacitation and, eventually, death, as with President Ronald Reagan, but at a relatively earlier age. President Bush's "mangled" words are a demonstration of what physicians call "confabulation," and are almost specific to the diagnosis of a true dementia. Bush should immediately be given the advantage of a considered professional diagnosis, and started on drugs that offer the possibility of retarding the slow but inexorable course of the disease.
Joseph M. Price, M.D.
Carsonville, Mich."
Dr. Price, and I'm assuming the same one, wrote a book described as this:
"Dr. Joseph M. Price, MD in his book 'Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine', wrote that the cause of arteriosclerosis, resulting heart attacks, and strokes is none other than the chlorine in our drinking water. "
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.aspNow, all "General Jack D. Ripper" jokes from
Dr. Strangelove aside, maybe Dr. Price cannot be regarded as an expert on "pre-senile dementia," at least enough to judge this from a distance.
Does Bush have excellent verbal skills? No. Is this a sign of something? No.
