Okay, let us back up and summarize a bit because you two, Joe Elliott and Tim Nickerson, keep jumping around when you are caught in errors and when you cannot provide answers for evidence that contradicts your claims.
* You did not understand that Sturdivan was saying that the neuromuscular reaction was a decerebrate reaction. Not all neuromuscular reactions are decerebrate reactions, but Sturdivan recognized that the goat’s reaction was decerebrate. You, Joe Elliott, erroneously assumed that Sturdivan was describing two sets of reactions, that the decerebrate reaction was separate from the neuromuscular one, that the decerebrate reaction followed the neuromuscular one, and that the decerebrate reaction alone did not begin until about 1,000 milliseconds after bullet impact—in real time.
* If Sturdivan had said that in the 24 fps film the reaction started in X milliseconds but that in the 2400 fps film it started in Y milliseconds, that would be one thing. But he noted that the 24 fps film was “real time.” You can play a real-time film in slow motion to determine how soon a given reaction starts after a stimulus. You do not just play it at normal playback speed and guess. You can slow it down considerably, and Sturdivan obviously did this. He certainly would not have just guessed after merely viewing the film at normal playback speed.
* The goat’s reaction is nothing like JFK’s reaction. JFK’s arms don’t splay and his back does not arch, unlike the goat’s limbs and back. Furthermore, the goat’s head and neck do not jerk backward, unlike JFK’s head and upper body.
* There is no large explosion of particulate matter from the goat’s head, whereas such an explosion on JFK’s head is obvious in the Zapruder film.
* For the last week or two, you, Joe Elliott, have insisted that JFK’s head begins to move backward 55 milliseconds after bullet impact. You said this over and over. But, well, now that you realize that you need that backward movement to start much later, suddenly you are suggesting that it could have occurred 82 milliseconds after bullet impact, an increase of 48%--that’s a big difference.
* The only two neuroscientists who have commented on JFK’s backward head snap (Robert Zacharko and Joseph Riley) have said that the neuromuscular-reaction theory is “nonsense,” “implausible,” etc., etc., and one of them, Dr. Riley, dismisses the goat test as irrelevant.
* Most of the physicists who have commented on JFK’s backward motion have rejected the neuromuscular-reaction theory. Those few who have not rejected it outright have declined to cite it as the only cause of JFK’s backward movement. Even the HSCA experts hedged their bets and said the movement was caused by one or the other or by a mix of both. Physicists Mantik, Costella, Chambers, Snyder, and Riddle insist that neither phenomena could cause a person’s body to behave the way Kennedy’s body behaves in the Zapruder film from Z312-321 but that this movement must have been caused by contact with an external force in obedience to the laws of physics.
* Human neuromuscular reactions that involve more than an eyelid or two fingers, and that are not the result of auditory stimulus and that do not involve damage to the body, are not going to occur in 55 milliseconds, much less in 40 milliseconds. Not on this planet. The fastest time for such a reaction might be—just might be—100 milliseconds, but more likely 200-600 milliseconds in the majority of such cases.
