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COMMENTS: Post Hoc, Propter Hoc
On such a busy day of news, only ABC chose a human interest feature to round out the agenda. John McKenzie traveled to rural West Virginia to profile Marianne Cook, a stroke patient who was airlifted, unconscious and paralyzed, to the Cleveland Clinic, assumed to be terminally stricken. Now five months later Cook is back home, walking and talking. What happened in the meantime? The clinic performed a three-hour operation and Cook's mother organized a prayer circle on her daughter's behalf, starting at her Arnett Chapel and spreading to 120 congregations. Cook thanked God for her recovery. McKenzie made no claims about cause and effect.
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