I wanted to put this in the second-chance pool but it's a bit too old, so I've spawned a new copy of the post and will merge the (relevant) comments there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318544

Second chance? It's not like it didn't get any attention or comments first time, less than 2 weeks ago...

It didn't get enough.

Capitalize "Sacks", please.

Maybe a better source, linked in the article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-p...

We’ve updated it, thanks!

And also capitalize his name: sacks -> Sacks

Weirdly, what’s currently linked in the article is https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/oliver-sacks-c..., which doesn’t exist.

Unrelated(?) classiness:

> In his own journals, Sacks admitted he had given his patients "powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have." Some details, he acknowledged, were "pure fabrications."

— post

> But, in his journal, Sacks wrote that “a sense of hideous criminality remains (psychologically) attached” to his work: he had given his patients “powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have.” Some details, he recognized, were “pure fabrications.”

— New Yorker article