Dear Prevention friends, Subject: Standard request for preventive information. If you wish to "work" on prevention, please read the following. It is the...
Dear Prevention minded friends, Subject: Who is telling scientific "lies" about the dynamic behavior of the fundamental eye? Retinula is a "majority-opinion"...
Dear Keith, Subject: Numb-skulls that make legal threats. Re: This "kills" any second-opinion support you might have expected from an OD working towards...
Dear Jon, I learned a hard lesson -- that the only person who cares about your long-term vision -- is yourself. The profound arrogance and ignorance of these...
Limits.txt Dear Keith, Subject: Recognizing the arguments against prevention at the threshold by optometrists. Some of these arguments are "good" and you...
The Angry Myope Subject: George is a dentist. He is about -4 diopters -- and judges that the OD profession has an obligation to discuss the "preventive plus"...
13year.txt This updates "13 year-old clears vision" Dear Prevention minded friends, Subject: A 13 year-old clears his vision from 20/80 to normal in 4 weeks. ...
Dear Friends, There is truly a problem with "us" the general public. We DEMAND very, very sharp vision -- an will not understand anyting else other than that. ...
Dear Prevention-minded friends, Subject: Scientific testing to confirm the eye's dynamic behavior. Re: What is the nature of scientific proof? Re: A...
Subject: Remarks supporting Steve Leung OD Re: The person's right to be informed of the plus-preventive second-opinion ++++++++++++++++ Comment by Otis S....
Diag12.txt Dialog1.txt REVIEWING THE BOOK, "HOW TO AVOID NEARSIGHEDNESS" IMAGINATION Imagination is more important that knowledge...knowledge is limited but...
Dear Friends, Subject: My Reasons for advocating plus-preveniton. You will find that I agree (mostly) with the M.O. ODs -- about dealing with the public,...
RetsMO.txt Dear Doogle, Subject: A General discussion about rejectiing plus-prevention. REVIEWING THE BOOK, "HOW TO AVOID NEARSIGHEDNESS" IMAGINATION ...
OPINIONS AND FACTS "All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw "People believe and do whatever they want to do, regardless of the facts...
jakeglas.txt Dear Prevention-minded friends, Enclosed are segments of Dr. Raphaelson's autobiography -- for your interest. Best, Otis ================== THE...
Dear Don, I often wondered if I was PERSONALLY responsible for INDUCING a negative refractive STATE in my eyes. It is clear from the primate studies that is...
Topic: NBab -- from 20/80 to pass the DMV at 20/30 Dear Vision-Clearing friends, I like to establish the "initial" Snellen reading BEFORE a person "starts"...
Question: What is the average cost to maintain contact lenses? Policies vary, but most will charge a fee to see you the first time to assess your current...
This is truly a "sensitive" area. We ALL must make a living. I EXPECT to pay for professional services. But I also expect to be offered a discussion of the...
IndxMyop.txt For "House keeping" reasons I am placing the index of my book here. Best, Otis ++++++++++++++++++ Index for "How to Avoid Nearsightedness" INDEX A...
Words must have EXACT meanings. This is some of the effort to define the fundamental eye as the dynamic system -- that it is. Thus the natural eye can have...
Iseerm.txt Subject: Difficulty of offering prevention with a plus from a optometrist's point-of-view. Re: An optometrist (RM on sci.med.vision) explains why...
DrLScience.Txt Subject: Scientific and Medical Methods and Proof "I know that most men ... can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it...
JonEq6.txt Jon Neumann Physicist Dear Jon, "Part of the art and skill of the engineer and of the experimental physicist is to create conditions in which...
Sphreq.txt SUBJECTS: 1. Spherical equivalent conversion 2. Two astigmatic "prescriptions". We often get a "astigmatic" prescription which looks terrible....
Dynam.txt Dear Prevention Minded Friends, Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. Samuel Johnson Subject: A...
Dear Anti-minus friends, Here is a statement by a majority-opinion optometrist. If you do not get "support" for prevention (Bates or plus) then here is the...
Subject: Re: I was so upset when I got a note from school nurse. Please help! ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Xanadu, I am an engineer -- not a "doctor". Since I...
