Trepan - real or urban myth?

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Please tell me you're not considering doing this.

Ooh! ooh! Can I do it?

[Pekka]

I find it amazing that you guys think a little hole in the head is something very bad and disgusting. The times we live are full of wars, people killing each other, we see horrible injuries in news on tv every night etc. You guys think knee surgery is something beautiful then?
You're not supposed to touch the brain at all anyway.

But I take it none of you cared to read about it more than two sentences, because it sounds so weird. I'm not here defending it, I'm here to defend decent arguments and discussion about this.

[Ted Striker]

Ted Striker is not letting anybody do this nonsense!!!

Well except for ****ers so that disqualifies you gay_jon!!!

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Pekka
I find it amazing that you guys think a little hole in the head is something very bad and disgusting. The times we live are full of wars, people killing each other, we see horrible injuries in news on tv every night etc. You guys think knee surgery is something beautiful then?
You're not supposed to touch the brain at all anyway.

But I take it none of you cared to read about it more than two sentences, because it sounds so weird. I'm not here defending it, I'm here to defend decent arguments and discussion about this.

The reason I'm not contributing is that this used to make the rounds on the news magazines like 60 minutes 15 years ago. It was almost always universally debunked except in primitive cultures where there weren't other alternatives.

[Pekka]

And what is so primitive? It was very primitive back in the days like maybe 100 years ago or 10 000 years ago, but equipment these days and knowledge, it's just normal business. I fail to see the primitive aspect.

[Ted Striker]

I'm not biting. Sorry.

[monolith94]

Tibetan monks have used trepenation for many hundreds of years to open up 'the third eye'.

[Pekka]

But that aside, I hope we could stick with the real issue, and that is the benefits of this. Because that is the thing that matters, and what makes this either real or just placebo.

[Pekka]

Besides I think people who actually is going through the pain and reading that site, and not just looking at it and read little bits of here and there haven't finished it yet, being able to discuss it here. I'm sleepy so I'm gonna play some gta3 and go to sleep and I'll continue this tomorrow.

[twoflower]

thats frightning :

[Zero]

It mainly placebo. Drilling a hole in your head probably could lower headaches, so that could help you think better I guess.

Then again Im no expert in this field.

If I drilled a hole... Can I poke it?

[Static Universe]

There's a great scene in the movie Pi where the lead character trepans himself with a power drill. Not for the squeamish.