Talk:David Vetter

message: THE ARTICLE SAYS DAVID VETTER WAS KNOWN AS THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE I WAS BORN IN 1968 I REMEMBER HIM BEING KNOWN AS DAVID THE BUBBLE BOY WHEN I WAS GROWING UP BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE MEDIA CALLED HIM  
THE ARTICLE IN WIKIPEDIA ON DAVID VETTER IS BASED ON HALF TRUTHS THAT CAME FROM A BOOK
THAT WAS NEVER PUBLISH BY MARY ADA MURPHY WHICH YOU CAN READ ONLINE THE BOOK WAS 
TURN DOWN BY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS IN THE BOOK MARY SAYS DAVID HAD AN IQ OF 126 BUT 
LATTER ON IN THE BOOK MARY IMPLIES THAT DAVID WAS STUPID BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE 
COULD DRIVE HER CAR ACROSS THE OCEAN TO CHINA FROM THE U.S ALSO THE PERSON THAT 
WROTE THE ARTICLE ON DAVID VETTER ADMITS THAT THEY DIDN'T TAKE THE TIME TO READ 
OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT DAVID legitimate MORE accurate   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.85.8 (talk) 23:30, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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message: I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS ARTICLE WAS EDITED ABOUT WHY HOW HE BECAME FAMOUS FOR LIVING IN A sterile environment AND HE DID NOT HAVE A TV INSIDE HIS BUBBLE I DON'T BELIEVE THE PERSON THAT CHANGE THE ARTICLE READ TO MANY ARTICLE ON DAVID VETTER 
LISTED BIRTH LOCATIONS INACCURATEITS SAY A BUBBLE WAS SET UP AT HES PARENTS HOUSE IN CONROE TEXAS HES PARENTS LIVED IN SHENANDOAH TEXAS MATTER OF FACT IF YOU LOOK UP SHENANDOAH TEXAS IN WIKIPEDIA IT MENTION  DAVID VETTER WAS FROM THERE OTHER ARTICLE WRITTEN ABOUT HIM ONLINE MAKE THE SAME STATEMENT
 BUT NOT CONROE TEXAS NO MENTION OF DAVID VETTER 
THE ARTICLE IN WIKIPEDIA ON DAVID VETTER IS BASED ON HALF TRUTHS THAT CAME FROM A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER PUBLISH BY MARY ADA MURPHY WHICH YOU CAN READ ONLINE THE BOOK WAS TURN DOWN BY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS IN THE BOOK MARY SAYS DAVID HAD AN IQ OF 126 BUT LATTER ON IN THE BOOK MARY IMPLIES THAT DAVID WAS STUPID BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE COULD DRIVE HER CAR ACROSS THE OCEAN TO CHINA FROM THE U.S ALSO THE PERSON THAT WROTE THE ARTICLE ON ON DAVID VETTER ADMITS THAT THEY DIDN'T TAKE THE TIME TO READ OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT DAVID legitimate MORE accurate  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.85.8 (talk) 00:04, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't trust anyone to fix the "grammer" if he/she is unable to spell the word "grammar." 71.92.98.115 (talk) 21:28, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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message: The 2nd paragraph of the birth section currently reads "The doctors had decided that a bone marrow transplant may give David's immune system a jump start, however they had expected that David's sister, Katherine, would be a match.Now, what was set up as a temporary solution had now become his home..."
IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT KATHERINE BONE MARROW WAS NOT A PERFECT MATCH AFTER DAVID WAS BORN. 12 YEARS LATER BREAK THOUGH IN BONE MARROW RESEARCH HAPPEN WHERE DOCTORS COULD TAKE NON MATCHING BONE MARROW THAT WASN'T A PERFECT MATCH AND TREAT IT SO IT WOULD WORK IN SOMEBODY ELSE IT WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE THE DOCTORS TOLD THE PARENTS THAT IT WAS 99 PERCENT SAFE IF IT DIDN'T WORK THEY WOULD BE BACK TO SQUARE ONE
Was she or wasn't she a match?  SHE WAS NOT A PERFECT MATCH BUT SHE WAS A GOOD MATCH.
Would or wouldn't a bone marrow transplant give David's immune system a jump start?
70.231.188.124 15:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  what about the bone marrow transplant?  highly confusing paragraph 

message: I find this whole article idea patronizing and at the end of the day, it doesn't help anyone to have an article like this. 
This article is an experiment. I wrote a relatevely big article about what I consider an interesting theme but left out gaps on purpose to be filled by other contributors. I am curious to see what it will look like when it grows.
This article has stayed very stagnant. If you know about the subject, why force others to write about something they wouldn't really want to write about? Mike H 09:18, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
Ditto on that. What do we need now, Wikipedia is not a toy? Wikipedia is not Mad Libs? Far better to write a complete article and let it stagnate than write an incomplete article and let that stagnate. - Furrykef 02:23, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Not helpful

message: Wasn't there another movie that was about this boy. I think John Travolta starred in it. It was years ago, like in the 80's. 70.151.90.227 21:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  movies 

message: I doubt the notion of anyone "without an immune system" to even get born. The immune system has a vast number of regulatory functions inside the body, even when no external germs are around. In addition, retroviruses can be inherited from the body. Furthermore, any form of protein consumed causes immunological reactions that are important to the digestion of the peptides. In short: if for some reason a genetical defect would terminate the function of even just one central part of the immune system (say, your body produced no macrophages), a fetus would die and self-abort within the first two months of carriage.
Unable to investigate this specific case, I can only postulate a hypothesis: The guy may have never had a problem in the first place except for being born to insane parents and crazy doctors.
What surprises me is that there is no clue in the article that anyone could ever doubt the "boy without immune system" hypothesis.  84.75.118.150 12:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No scientific criticism? 

message: I deleted this line "Due to David's situation, it was learned that viruses can cause cancer." That assertion is incorrect. Cancer causing viruses were first reported to exist in chickens in 1910 by Peyton Rous (http://www.jem.org/cgi/content/full/201/3/320), later called the Rous Sarcoma Virus. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1966. Later, in 1989, Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work published in 1976 that tumor causing viruses use critical genes hijacked from an ancestral host. There were other Nobels awarded for tumor-virus related work as well as an established record of viruses as tumor causing agents long before David Vetter's death.
Mightydarwin 07:34, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tumor viruses

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 11:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: On the episode “Little Girl in the Big Ten” from the 13th season of the Simpsoms Bart is set into a Burbble. I think that must be mentioned too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.134.69.125 (talk) 19:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another cultural reference 

message: It's obvious he said that when he was alive. Isn't this a little redundant? Thanks 89.1.162.134 (talk) 20:52, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "whom he called his best friend when he was alive" 

message: I removed the sentence "Murphy would help David through any crisis he may have." from the end of the 1st paragraph in the section "Poking holes in the bubble" because there is no explanation of Murphy. Who was he? How did he help?  MARY ADA MURPHY WAS A WOMAN THAT WORKED AT TEXAS CHILDREN HOSPITAL HER OFFICE WAS ACROSS THE HALL FROM DAVID HOSPITAL ROOM SHE WAS STUDYING TO GET A DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT  DAVID CALLED HER HIS BEST FRIEND  ALSO THEIRS A SHAWN MURPHY NOT RELATED TO MARY THAT WAS ALSO CALLED HIS BEST FRIEND HE WAS ABOUT 4 YEARS OLDER THAN DAVID HE WAS THE friend THAT arranged for a special showing of Return of the Jedi at a local movie theater that David attended in his transport chamber.[2]— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jedikaiti (talk • contribs) 20:03, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is murphy?