... As I have repeatedly told you, I have never said that emmetropia means normal, nor have I ever said that eye with hyperopic refractive error may not have...
... a -3 ... In various studies, lenses are used for various reasons. In a few animal studies, the lenses are used to study what happens when lenses are used...
... When human clinical trial evidence that a particular method of preventing myopia is safe and effective is published, your local eye doctor will discuss it...
Dear Judy, Subject: Thanks for your majority-opinion. As always, I am pleased to hear you say that: 1. The natural eye (population of fundamental) are NOT...
Dear Judy, And I have repeatedly told you -- those issues are SCIENTIFIC ISSUES. I would suggest presenting these scientific FACTS to the person on the...
... What facts are those? Please inform me of human science studies that would be relevant to a person who does not yet need glasses (on the threshold). And...
Dear Prevention-minded friends. I think these remarks by Dr. Guyton show an "understanding" that the person himself can take stronger responsibility to "work"...
Dear Prevenion-minded freinds, Subject: Obtaining reduced-strength minus lenses. Re: How to do it. by "Sassy". ============== Hi Friend, Welcome to my blog and...
Subject; Here is another Vision Improvement site: http://www.indivisual.org.uk/index.html In my way I "object". The goal should be Snellen CLEARING -- where ...
Dear Judy, As you know, I agree with many of your points -- but not all of them. To run a true PREVENTIVE study, the person himself would HAVE to be given...
... Even if the subjects aren't blinded, the researchers can be. Any researcher would be able to solve the problem of having both careful instruction and...
Dear Judy, Good -- I am pleased you agree that the person can be given detailed instructions (if in the TEST group) as to how to read with a strong plus. I...
... From the COMET study: <<As a result of the optical properties of the PALs, special instructions were required to help the children use the PALs correctly ...
... I think this the major difference between Otis's understanding (and my understand) of how science works, and that of mainstream optometry. For example: 1....
... " that the ... Since the subjects would know their starting refraction, having them make their own measure would remove blinding. There would be no ...
... my ... state ... we ... Certainly eye researchers made that initial assumption. Studies then found that not all species in a genus, or even all varieties...
Dear Judy, I believe that the SCIENTIFIC PART is far more important that a "Clinical" study, since the scientist (engineer) must understand all aspects of the...
Dear Threshold-preventing friends, Subject: Science and facts (the blue-tint model). It should be clear from my friendship with PROFESSIONALS that I do not...
Dear Second-opinion Friends, Here is the TYPICAL reaction of a majority-opinion -- to scientific research OUTSIDE OF HIS OFFICE. This is in response to a Bates...
... Scientists who run clinical trials would be very confused about remarks that describe science and clinical trials as being different things. It sounds like...
Dear Judy, Who is the scientist? You seem to wish to RESTRICT the review to EXCLUSIVELY majority-opinion ODs and the like. You miss the point. There are...
... Ummm, the subject of this thread is "For Judy -- How would you run a plus-prevention clinical study?" If the topic you are discussing is not how do do a...
Dear Judy, Let me make is this way. How to run a SCIENTIFIC (clinical) study. The major emphasis would be that the individual is EMPOWERED to control the ...
... You can run a study any way you want to. For it to be considered a clinical trial, accepted for peer reviewed publication and for eye professionals to use...
Dear Judy, I know you are constrained by the limitation of the vaunted "Clinical Study". It is also clear that the OD who "believes" in the Donders-Helmholtz...
Dear Prevention-minded friends, Here is an interesting paper on the subject. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n20_v148/ai_17884208 Enjoy, Otis...
LiberVA.txt Optometrist Jacob Liberman Ph.D., is a man who is developing the PREVENTIVE second-opinion. Here are some of his commentary of the relationship...
Dear Friends, Subject: Dealing with "numb-skulls" Re: Medicine is NEVER monolithic. Re: Therefore, there MUST BE a second-opinion. That should be the FIRST...
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