Comments on: Skeptics Baffled By Yet Another Lame ‘Doctors Baffled’ Story

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:26:30 +0000

How benevolent of Allah to inscribe passages from his best-seller on a child’s arm, rather than, say, ooh i dunno, a cure for cancer and an end to immeasurable human suffering.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:28 +0000

Proto etch a sketch. Love that.

By: bob dezon

bob dezon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:13:22 +0000

Interesting theory time.

Historically, books have been bound in human skin. The practise is called anthropodermic bibliopegy. If the skin used was taken from a person prone to dermatographic urticaria, could it be considered a proto etch-a-sketch?

Also, this child is merely a tool for religious and media hype. As I posted on FB (where I first saw this) I suspect the child is being purposely marked by the parents, based upon the stylised arabic script.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:00:48 +0000

It is the ‘Balloon Kid” but on a tighter budget.

By: Hayley

Hayley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:16:53 +0000

I can remember reading a story about a lady who had urticarial dermographism and writes her shopping list on her arm using her fingernails.
However, for such a thing to be done do a defenceless baby is so sad and so wrong.

By: Mexkeptic

Mexkeptic — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:12:34 +0000

I also got a divine message:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44199506@N08/4055797434/

If it’s urticarial dermographism, they might not be treating him poorly. It doesn’t hurt, it just itches a little and disappears in about half an hour.

Love the podcast!

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:47:24 +0000

I feel really bad for this baby because his parents are probably treating him poorly. I don’t want to know what they’re doing to him to cause his skin to act up but clearly it can’t be good if he’s crying and breaking out into a fever, and they have to hold him down