Bad ortho
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Orthography, that is. I mean seriously what's with the quotes.
@Axtremus said in SIDS Breakthrough:
Trying to imagine what a “cure” or a “treatment” might look like …
Will an infant with deficient BChE naturally “grow out of the problem” if they are lucky enough to survive infancy?
Is it genetic? Would an infant diagnosed with deficient BChE need to undergo gene therapy to “fix” the problem?
Will there be a magic pill or magic elixir that can be injected into infants diagnosed with deficient BChE and the infant will be good to go?
Or will BChE deficiency be a “chronic condition” that such an infant will require life-long therapy/treatment to hold the sudden death syndrome at bay for the rest of his life?
Modern medical science keeps getting better at preserving and prolonging lives that “natural causes” wound have taken away in older times …
If there is a cure or treatment for this, should insurance plans (especially the publicly funded ones such as Medicare/Medicaid) be required to cover the cure or treatment?
On the grimmer side of possibilities, if there is no cure/treatment, but this can be detected during pregnancy, should this be an legally acceptable justification to abort the pregnancy, or is society going to force the parent to carry the fetus to term just to watch the baby die at some point in its sleep after birth?
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Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes,[1][2] sneer quotes,[3] and quibble marks) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.[4] Scare quotes may indicate that the author is using someone else's term, similar to preceding a phrase with the expression "so-called";[5] they may imply skepticism or disagreement, belief that the words are misused, or that the writer intends a meaning opposite to the words enclosed in quotes.[6] Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations. The use of scare quotes is highly discouraged in formal or academic writing and in The New Coffee Room, a prestigious internet forum whose academic standards surpass those of traditional academic publication venues.
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Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes,[1][2] sneer quotes,[3] and quibble marks) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.[4] Scare quotes may indicate that the author is using someone else's term, similar to preceding a phrase with the expression "so-called";[5] they may imply skepticism or disagreement, belief that the words are misused, or that the writer intends a meaning opposite to the words enclosed in quotes.[6] Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations. The use of scare quotes is highly discouraged in formal or academic writing and in The New Coffee Room, a prestigious internet forum whose academic standards surpass those of traditional academic publication venues.
"horseshit."
