Talk:Vanishing twin

message: That wombtwin survival stuff is totally bogus on the same level as starsign astrology and alien mindcontrol. It doesn't really deserve mentioning in an article about a medical phenomenon. (sven@scientist.com)
Wombtwin survivors vary a lot. They often have medical proof (see above) and many have no proof whatever but a deep inner conviction of once having had a twin. Others have vague symptoms they don't understand (such as irrational negativity or paranoia) that clear up once they have realise they are a wombtwin survivor and work through the feelings that are associated with being one. (Althea@wombtwin.com)
*Neat theory, but smells like original research t'me. --Jack (Cuervo) 10:08, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction to above post: turns out there is an "otherkin" article.  I hadn't found one when I'd looked ages ago, but there's been one for over a year now.  I wonder if I misspelled it when I'd looked a while ago, or if it was really so long ago that I'd looked. --Icarus 04:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wombtwin survival 

message: The Coast to Coast AM show is as much entertainment as anything else.  It is not directed in any scientific way.  I took the liberty of removing the part that referred to it as research.  I would not mind seeing the rest of the sentence vanish as well.
But i feel that the point about memories of a deceased twin is worth mentioning—with the appropriate qualification as mere hypothesis, of course (as in a largely unqualified idea, as distinguished from theory—which tends to imply a great deal more examination and supporting evidence).  It is fairly well accepted that fetuses do perceive things, and remember, to some extent.  —überRegenbogen 15:48, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[George Noory]], a researcher?  plleeease!  ;) 

message: I did some fairly large reorganisation, and added some headings. (I'm not entirely satisfied with my "Stuff" heading, but i felt that the things that are now in it needed to be roped off somehow.)  There is still a lot of semi-redundant info that needs to be integrated into the article in a much more graceful way. And the references still need to be wikified. —überRegenbogen 16:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've sifted the paragraph of redundancy into the rest of the article.  I may tackle converting the parenthetica references in to footnotes, but no promises; i do tend to wander on to other things. ;) —überRegenbogen 16:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  reorganisation and wikification 

message: Recent Front Page FA Baby Gender Mentor has quite a few cites regarding vanishing twin--ZayZayEM 07:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Baby Gender Mentor]] 

message: Science Channel aired a 2004 documentary film which examined the case of a 7-year-old Kazakhstani boy whose stomach had become distended. In April 2003, Surgeons tried to remove what they thought was a large cyst, but instead found his twin.  At the end of the show, an expert estimates that 1 in 8 of pregnancy started out as twins, but only 10% of those pregnancy carried the twins through full term.  Kowloonese (talk) 04:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vanished Twins 

message: It isn't clear to me what is meant by this line: It was hypothesized for a long time that non-right-handed and left-handed individuals may be the survivors of "mirror image" identical twinning
Can anyone rewrite that or something?  I looked at the source, but it still wasn't clear to me.
Ozy42 (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  clarification on handedness 

message: "It was hypothesized for a long time that non-right-handed and non-left-handed individuals may be the survivors of "mirror image" identical twinning." Is it saying that people who are right or left handed may have been in a vanishing twin pregnancy?FusionLord (talk) 08:10, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone explain this line to me. 

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