| Mike Tyner 2004-08-29, 7:11 pm |
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"Otis Brown" <otisbrown@pa.net> wrote
> He received a "prescription" for -1.5 diopters (about 20/120)
> and determined that HE did not want to get into
> the minus-lens stair-case problem.
Who told him the "stair-case problem" exists? Citation, please.
I need to know. You refuse to say.
Tell us where you find myopes wearing glasses get more nearsighted than
those who don't.
> I explained that 99 percent of the ODs just don't care,
And 99% of ODs believe you're lying to make your point. If you told him the
truth, you'd say we don't care to sell unproven treatments.
> You have explained why you can never introduce
> the concept of prevention, and why, basically,
> the individual must have the "smarts" and
> high-level motivation to "do it himself".
And yet you refuse to describe any method or procedure that reliably enables
people to "do it themselves."
> Yes, not all ODs have your "attitude", and
> many do support true-prevention. But
> it is indeed difficult.
In other words, it only works for accommodative myopia. We knew that.
> If the person is indifferent, and has no
> interest -- then prevention is indeed
> impossible -- but not for the reasons
> you state. It is just a lack
> of motivation and education at
> the critical point.
When efficacy is somewhere between "indeed difficult" and "indeed
impossible," how useful is that?
> But I always enjoy an intellectual discussion
> about the behavior of the natural eye
> as a scientific discussion.
So it is "intellectual" to recommend unproven treatments?
It is "scientific" to ignore human research?
> So let
> us keep it at that high level by
> agreeing that the natural eye
> is "dynamic" and can have positive
> or negative refractive states -- depending
> on its average visual enviroment.
You say "Agree with me or you aren't scientific." Yet by your own admission,
most vision scientists disagree with you. And not only those who sell
glasses.
> It would be hard to believe that anyone
> would hold the "opposite" opinion.
It would be hard to believe you ever read a physiology textbook.
-MT
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