I hope it will be broadcast here as well. The Discovery Channel program, The Girl with X-ray Eyes, has been broadcast in Europe and Asia, but not yet in the United States. Instead, she indicated that she "saw" a metal plate and missing skull section in a man who had a removed appendix but normal skull. Natasha's most dramatic misdiagnosis was her failure to see a large metal plate covering a missing section of skull in a man who had a large brain tumor removed. Yet, it took her more than fours to complete the test and she only matched four of the conditions correctly - a score that everyone prior to the test had agreed upon would not justify further testing.
She was told exactly what to look for and exactly where to look. She didn't have to scan their entire bodies for unknown conditions. So the test - which required her to match at least five of the target medical conditions to the correct subjects - should have been a breeze. Natasha claims she can see abnormalities down to the cellular level and her mother says her readings are 100 percent accurate. The target conditions were: a removed appendix, a removed lower section of the esophagus, metal staples left in the chest after surgery an artificial hip joint a surgically removed upper section of the left lung and a metal plate covering a removed section of the skull. We also provided her with anatomical drawings to make sure she understood exactly what to look for and where to look. Natasha was handed six test cards, each with a description of a target medical condition, in English and Russian.
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We recruited six volunteers, who each had a different medical condition visible on X-rays, plus a "normal" subject who had none of the six target conditions. So we designed a simple test that would eliminate the possibility of using cold reading to fish for correct information and to prevent Natasha from making diagnoses that could not be disproved without an autopsy. The only way I could prove her wrong would be to submit to an autopsy - which I'm not quite ready to do. Nevertheless, Natasaha and her supporters claim she sees what doctors and their tests often miss. Neither my physician nor I are aware of any of these problems. In other words, I should forget about ever again signing an organ donor card. My right kidney has "sand," while my left kidney's urethra is enlarged. My prostate gland has a nodule and is inflamed. The head of my pancreas is increased and abnormally dark (although not seriously). A segment of my liver was enlarged and I was suffering poor bile circulation. The muscle on the left side of my heart is a bit weak and the valve closes late. The bronchial tubes of my lungs had phlegm.
My neck vertebrae were too tight, too close. When she gave me a reading, preciously few organs passed the inspection. Similarly, Natasha scans her patients from head to toe and describes a long list of abnormalities she says she sees. After Natasha, her mother, her agent, and the producer agreed to the test rules, we all flew to New York for filming the test on the City College of New York campus. and Richard Wiseman, Ph.D., and I designed a preliminary test for judging whether her abilities warranted further, study. In response, CSICOP research fellows Ray Hyman, Ph.D. In March 2004, the producer of a Discovery Channel documentary on Natasha asked the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the affiliated Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH) to scientifically test the young woman's claims. First widely hailed in Russia as "the girl with X-ray eyes," 17-year-old Natasha Demkina has a growing following of patients, doctors, journalists, and others who are convinced her powers are real. Now comes a teenage girl from Saransk, Russia, who claims to have X-ray-like vision, which lets her see inside of human bodies, to make diagnoses that often are more accurate than those of doctors.
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