alt.hn

12/9/2025 at 1:45:01 PM

Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost

by barry-cotter

12/18/2025 at 8:53:54 PM

I wanted to put this in the second-chance pool but it's a bit too old, so I've spawned a new copy of the post and will merge the (relevant) comments there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318544

by dang

12/18/2025 at 9:12:15 PM

Second chance? It's not like it didn't get any attention or comments first time, less than 2 weeks ago...

by ChrisArchitect

12/18/2025 at 9:48:06 PM

It didn't get enough.

by dang

12/13/2025 at 5:00:58 PM

Capitalize "Sacks", please.

by cafard

12/13/2025 at 4:22:17 AM

Maybe a better source, linked in the article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-p...

by 512

12/13/2025 at 5:39:50 AM

We’ve updated it, thanks!

by tomhow

12/13/2025 at 5:22:26 PM

And also capitalize his name: sacks -> Sacks

by slater

12/13/2025 at 5:25:23 AM

Weirdly, what’s currently linked in the article is https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/oliver-sacks-c..., which doesn’t exist.

Unrelated(?) classiness:

> In his own journals, Sacks admitted he had given his patients "powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have." Some details, he acknowledged, were "pure fabrications."

— post

> But, in his journal, Sacks wrote that “a sense of hideous criminality remains (psychologically) attached” to his work: he had given his patients “powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have.” Some details, he recognized, were “pure fabrications.”

— New Yorker article

by minitech