Jim Henson not Doug Henning

[Mark R Woodall]

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Mark Scarberry wrote:

> With this correction Mark Woodall is stating that Jim Henson's death was
> due to lack of medical care, due in turn to his Christian Science
> beliefs.  I do not remember anything in the news stories about Jim
> Henson's death that mentioned CS.  I thought he died from a very fast
> acting pneumonia that kills despite medical treatment.  I have a friend
> who is a medical doctor and whose wife (also a physician) died from that
> kind of pneumonia despite good medical care.  If Jim Henson died in the
> way Mark Woodall suggests, then it would seem we have a pro-CS bias in
> the news media--which seems highly unlikely.

You might me surprised where you'd find a bias in favor of CS.  For
example, the copyright in the main CS "textbook", "Science and Health With
the Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was legally extended
beyond the ordinary copyright allowed by law.  If I'm not mistaken there
are five CS members of congress, roughly
1% of the body.  If that represented the proportion of Christian
Scientists in the U.S., then there would be about 3 million.  In fact
there are less than 250,000 world-wide.

Mark Woodall