Weksler Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Winter 2004 v47 Johns Hopkins University Press ABSTRACT In the 1970s, Paris and many other French cities named streets in honor of Alexis Carrel, the French physician, scientist, and Nobel laureate. Naming streets for physicians: 'l'affaire Carrel'. To the detriment of his career and reputation among his fellow doctors, he steadfastly reiterated his beliefs, and even wrote a book describing his experience. Alexis Carrel went from being a skeptic of the visions and miracles reported at Lourdes to being a believer after experiencing a healing he could not explain. Since the Marian apparitions took place in Lourdes, we have witnessed many attempts to convince the general public that Bernadette’s apparitions were mere figments of her imagination, and that Lourdes is nothing more than the site of a fanatical cult, in which the Catholic clergy peddles its predictable brands of illusion and deceit.
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