Ballistic Neuromuscular Reaction
I think, what we LNers have called, a “Neuromuscular Spasm” or a “Neuromuscular Reaction”, should be given a new name. Something like: “Ballistic Neuromuscular Reaction”.
The reasons for this change:
1. “Neuromuscular Spasm” and “Neuromuscular Reaction” are medical terms that professionals often use to describe conditions that usually have nothing to do with being caused by a rifle bullet passing through the brain. With a “Neuromuscular Spasm”, symptoms can vary widely and often don’t cause all muscles below the neck to contract or cause a reaction within 80 milliseconds.
A google search of:
“Neuromuscular Spasm” gives 3,670 results.
Whereas a google search of :
“Neuromuscular Spasm” assassination gives 1,350 results.
Over half the time “Neuromuscular Spasm” is used in cases that are not caused by a rifle bullet through the brain, that do not cause all muscles below the neck to contract, and that do not start to occur within 80 milliseconds.
A google search of “Neuromuscular Reaction” also often refers to cases that are totally different.
Calling a “Ballistic Neuromuscular Reaction”, a “Neuromuscular Spasm”, is kind of like calling someone with COVID-19 a patient with "pulmonary symptoms". It causes confusion. The term may cause someone to receive treatment more appropriate for someone with Tuberculosis than COVID-19.
2. A term like “Neuromuscular Spasm” gives CTers a wedge. They can ask a doctor, “Can a Neuromuscular Spasm symptom set in within 80 milliseconds” and the doctor may very well answer no because the “Neuromuscular Spasm” cases he is thinking of are not caused by a rifle bullet through the brain.
The labels we use have a big impact on how people think. CTers have been much better than LNers at carefully selecting terminology. Giving the name “Magic Bullet Theory” automatically causes people to reject it, if this is their first introduction to the subject. It is classical propaganda technique.
Giving a unique medical condition a unique name is not a propaganda technique. It is a good technique that avoids confusion. A trucking company should not always refer to their trucks as “vehicles”. If they ask someone if their parking lot can hold 100 extra vehicles, they may get an answer “Yes” only discover that the parking lot in question can handle 100 extra cars but not a 100 extra trucks.
I am particularly against the term “Neuromuscular Spasm”. This is the term I have used over the years, because that is what Larry Sturdivan called it. This is what doctors told him to call it. But “Spasm” has a negative cogitation in this society. CTers can say “LNers claim that JFK wasn’t shot from the front but just had some sort of spasm.” Just calling it a “spasm” makes people reject the idea. Was JFK subject to spasms? No. But I believe that everyone is subject to a Ballistic Neuromuscular Reaction if shot through the brain with a rifle bullet.
Note of caution. The “Neuromuscular Spasm” is much stronger when caused by a rifle bullet passing through a brain than a handgun bullet passing through the brain. So, try to avoid the phrase “bullet passing through the brain” but always use “rifle bullet passing through the brain”.
