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- From: byrn@quads.uchicago.edu (Zelda Pinwheel)
- Subject: Health and Light
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.164337.29535@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:43:37 GMT
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- The book goes on to describe several amazing feats pulled off by the use
- of light on mammals, including the author's own arthritis going into
- remission once he started spending a significant amount of time outdoors
- every day. He talks of friends who have likewise felt better after going
- through the same regimen. All of this makes me a little skeptical. Well,
- more than a little skeptical. The topper came when he claimed that the
- type of light used in one woman's chinchilla farm helped determine the
- gender of the litters - even when the new lighting had been installed
- 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through the gestation period. So now I'm highly
- skeptical.
-
- I hate to say this about any book, but I've given up on it and I've stopped
- reading it. I got bogged down in his puzzled accounts of his attempts to
- get the scientific community to look into his discoveries, and his repeated
- rejections when he applied for grants. Of course, during this time he
- constructed no actual experiments to show what he wanted to prove. All of
- his evidence is anecdotal. The author strikes me as a tinkerer who doesn't
- really care about all that stuff about scientific method. He has no degree
- in science (he was given an honorary B.S. by some college), and he didn't
- seem to be terribly interested in learning enough science to answer his
- questions. But still, there are questions. There is mention later on of
- things like electronics companies recalling TV sets and a Congressional
- investigation that he calls "the case of the tired children".
-
- So my question is this. Is there any validity at all to this guy's
- assertions about the effect of light on mammals or even plants? Has any
- work been done in this vein? I'm interested in finding out, but I just
- can't read this book any longer. This book doesn't tell me anything, and
- I just get frustrated by this guy's attitude.
-
- Thanks for any replies,
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- maura
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