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- From: mtymp15@staff.tc.umn.edu (David Hutton)
- Subject: Re: Eye redness experiment a success!
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:26:42 GMT
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- In article <2B38FD6A.15850@ics.uci.edu> honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) writes:
- > despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- > I know that one pupil will respond to light in the other eye, due to
- >shared neural connections. Conjunctival injection (the med term for
- >red eyes) I have a harder time believing.
- >
- >But Bagg's point is very important: the original poster included no control.
- >No control, no conclusion.
- >
- >I didn't catch the orignal reason for doing this experiment, but
- >I can imagine it was hypothesized that redness if from topical irritation.
- >But smoking in a windy place keeps smoke off the eyes, yet they get red.
- >Another data point supporting the systemic counter-hypothesis.
- >
- >
- >
-
- Hey... I am the original poster, and I did NOT submit this as a formal
- experiment. It worked for me and has now worked several times without flaw.
-
- The control is the SAME weed smoked in the same conditions. Different effects.
-
- I forgot to use them one night and BAM they were red as hell again. SO just
- take your scientific egos out of your asses and relax about this stuff. Not
- everyone has to submit a full research paper with citations to make a point.
-
-
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