Post abou Esquire's attack article on Eben Alexander

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A fine and thoughtful comment, Joseph.  There is a flaw in human judgement that can occur when finding out that someone else is lying.  The flaw is a tendency to discount everything else the liar is saying, lock stock and barrel.  Such impulsive blanket judgments can result in some very sad losses for all of us, such as when Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney general of the State of New York, was caught with his pants down frequenting prostitutes.  This effectively ended his career (at least for the time being).  What a waste!  Eliot was one of the few who was busting the bad guys on Wall Street.  Now, because he was caught lying about going to prostitutes, and there was a righteous overreaction, we are left without one of our nation's most valuable assets in our war against big money financial crooks.  This is because of the human tendency to give way too much weight to isolated instances of lying.  Re: Eben Alexander fudging medical records to cover his ass:  Big deal. It's not right, but it sure isn't uncommon. (I'm a nurse, and I've seen this fudging.  Docs make mistakes. And, cops fudge records. so do truckers.  Etc.) Who hasn't at some point lied to protect their precious behinds? This is a human thing to do.  This doesn't detract from the validity of Eben's NDE.  To give one more example, John Lennon said in interviews that the Beatles sometimes "borrowed" from other music heavily,  fixed it up, and released it. The "Benefit of Mr. Kite" lyrics were taken from an old circus poster.  In that vein, many big-name writers have been busted plagiarizing (Maureen Dowd of NY Times is but one of many examples).  Do we ignore what Maureen has to say?  No. Do we enjoy the Beatles' music any less?  No.  Eben is a good man on balance, with something of great value to offer.  Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Let us, instead, control the kneejerk tendency to socially burn at the staake public figures caught lying, and instead see things clearly and accurately.