So Much for Miracles...or at least this one

It seems that the miraculous story of the man being "unlocked' from a vegetative state of more than twenty years is not so miraculous, after all. The Belgian man suffered serious brain injuries when he was twenty and has been unconscious for over twenty years. Last year, doctors discovered more brain activity than was previously supposed, and a speech therapist seemed to demonstrate that the man could communicate, using "facilitated communication," "in which the patient supposedly directs the hand of a speech therapist who type[s] out his thoughts." The results, however, seem to have been false: "Belgian coma 'writer'  can't communicate," BBC News, Saturday, February 20, 2010.