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  • Re: Claptrap? Really?

    That's just it, though: you say you wish more scientific-journal articles featured subjects that are ''outside our current realm of explanation'', but the problem with this article is that it made no attempt to figure out whether the cat is outside that realm or not. Instead it simply ran with the idea that the cat can sense death and turned it ...
    Posted to Science by PatStackSlate on August 2, 2007

  • It's no great feat ...

    Verifiable, reproduceable or debunked, it does not seem a great feat to me that a cat can detect death in a human being. We've had animals sense things about us forever. Most commonly, animals can sense fear in a human, which is also when they are most liable to attack. They follow the old natural rule that the only creature I need to be ...
    Posted to Science by gruff on August 2, 2007

  • More research needed

    This cat needs a CAT scan and other imaging studies to see if his brain is atypical. I, too, agree that this story is a human interest story, not a scientific story. You're right there was no mention of whether the cat's success rate was statistically significant. Its well known, already, that animals can sense when someone's blood sugar is high ...
    Posted to Science by Dr. Psych on August 1, 2007

  • Death Cats

    What struck me as odd about the ''death cat'' article and the subsequent attention it got was the sense that this was somehow a new revelation. The PBS series Nova featured a similar nursing home cat quite a few years back. Also, my father spent some time in a nursing home that had a cat that did the very same thing. I'll wager that there are ...
    Posted to Science by melissaan on August 1, 2007