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A number of scans over the past decade have shown that her cerebrum is completely gone, replaced by cerebrospinal fluid. There was some debate about whether there may have been tiny portions of cerebral structures left around the edges of the cavity that used to be her cerbrum, but even if there were it would not have made much difference because so much of the brain was simply absent. And it WAS all over the media, but for some reason people either just didn't understand or didn't want to hear it. People who thought she could recover (including her parents) simply didn't understand that you cannot regrow brain tissue after this much damage, and establishing connectivity between the structures would have been all but impossible. "Experts" who said otherwise were largely discredited as uninformed or deeply biased by the fact that they were offering unproven and expensive "treatments" to the Schiavo family.

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