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Science News, Oct 6, 2007 by Julie Enevoldsen, Jan Steinman
Oscar the cat possibly does identify dying patients ("Grim Reap Purr: Nursing home feline senses the end," SN: 7/28/07, p. 53), but the story you printed presents anecdotal rather than scientific evidence and does not belong in a science magazine.
JULIE ENEVOLDSEN, SEATTLE, WASH.
Correlation is not causation. Could it not be that, somehow, Oscar the cat is killing these patients?
JAN STEINMAN, SALT SPRING ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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