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- From: despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson)
- Subject: Re: Eye redness experiment a success!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.094024.24200@netcom.com>
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- References: <mtymp15.725065073@staff.tc.umn.edu> <1992Dec22.233408.26246@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:40:24 GMT
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- In article <something> bagg@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- [experiment deleted]
- >I suggest trying the experiment with a single eye protected with
- >goggles (and the other left exposed). It's a more elegant
- >experiment that way. If you're really ambitious you could have
- >independent observers (who were not present for the actual
- >smoking) 'score' your eye redness.
-
- I remember my eye doctor telling me that medication, infections (and I
- imagine smoke particles) are easily transferred from one eye to the other.
- Also, an irritation in one eye may affect the other. The eye becomes red
- because of an allergic reaction, release of histamines, etc. This may
- make both eyes turn red despite the possibility that the goggles really
- work.
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- Scott Hanson This has been a recording.
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