I am sorry, perhaps I misunderstood you, but the above article says that infants DO feel pain and do remember.
Thank you Keit, for bringing that correction up. You are correct - that the article does state, "Babies DO feel pain."
Unfortunately and to my dismay - what I Posted was "out of context" (Thank you Zak) to what was running through my mind, at that moment.
Sometimes, I think articles like this are meant to de-sensitize us into believing a specific concept, so that medical experimentation or even "rape" can be "legally reclassified as less traumatic" in babies, toddlers and young adults?
"I think articles like this are meant to de-sensitize us into believing a specific concept" - I totally screwed up that sentence because I did not clarify what I was thinking ...
Quote from the RT article:
The study reveals that newborn minors have suffered in silence and gone through painful periods without any type of painkillers to ease their agony.
The findings from Oxford University doctors
prove that babies not only feel pain, but they have a lower pain threshold than adults.
Dr. Rebeccah Slater from Oxford’s Department of Paediatrics says
it is “obvious” babies are incapable of communicating their experiences of pain, which makes it “difficult to infer pain from visual observations.
“In fact some people have argued that babies’ brains are not developed enough for them to really ‘feel’ pain, any reaction being just a reflex,” she added.
Slater said the study provides “the first really strong evidence” that this is not the case, and infants are able to feel pain.
She hopes the revelations from the study “
provides incentive to more researchers to find better ways of measuring pain in babies.”
Researchers should prioritize the “
importance” of providing the best possible pain relief for children, Slater said.
She told Time magazine it is now apparent “for the first time what is happening in babies’ brains while they experience something mildly painful” there should be a “big drive” to attempt to treat the pain in the children. (End quote.)
In the above, the first problem I had with the article was Dr. Rebeccah Slater's statements. I'm assuming, she has a doctorate in Paediatrics, yet I get the impression - she has "book learning" under her belt but very little "field" experience?
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it is “obvious” babies are incapable of communicating their experiences of pain, which makes it “difficult to infer pain from visual observations." If and when a baby feels pain of any sort, it will cry. Depending on the intensity and duration of pain, the baby or child will virtually "scream" - that's not "visual observation"?
" it is now apparent “for the first time what is happening in babies’ brains while they experience something mildly painful”
I guess, the problem I'm having is ... because the technology is available, they have "to prove to themselves" that an infant is capable of experiencing pain - the same way an adult does? I wonder, did they also measure the needless bombardment of radiation exposure from the MRI during the testing? Probably, not?
None of this - is to exonerate - that I screwed up the sentence in my Post. I messed up, Big time!
I think, what first distracted me was the phase "
newborn minors"? I can't find a definition for that? Minors is generally applied to those 16 years of age and younger.
Not to mix apples and oranges but in a fairly recent report on the Catholic Church, Priests and sexual abuse (State of Pennsylvania) Posted in the Pizzagate thread:
August 14, 2018 - Landmark Pennsylvania grand jury report finds more than 300 'predator priests' sexually abused children
Landmark Pennsylvania grand jury report finds more than 300 'predator priests' sexually abused children
If you go into Court proceedings on this Landmark case, there is several various pdf's with testimony. In one testimony, there is a reference to "newborn minor" which is the first time I came across that term. It's in reference to a child "under the age of one". So, I found it a little strange to see that phase in the RT article.
