Re: Book Projector for myopia prevention

On 30 Jun 2006 06:57:35 -0700, buywheels@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you Neil for taking the time to write. As an adult of course I
won't trust everthing I read on the Internet. I know the methods that I
am thinking (projector and reading glasses - of course not at the same
time) might not work, but I doubt it will cause any harm either. Since
science and medicine cannot provide me with any help, I will probably
give this a try.

Want the names and e-mail addresses of people who believed the same
and--either their kids or they--developed double vision as a result?

I would STRONGLY advise against unprescribed plus lenses for your
child. If you believe in the plus theory, then work with a behavioral
optometrist to evaluate (and monitor) your son's binocular vision and
prescribe with appropriate prisms, if indicated.

To share an off topic story: i was bothered by what my GI specialist
called functional dyspepsia (indigestion) for six month about a year
ago. I thought I had cancer at one point and went through all the tests
there was. Nothing was found. Different medications were tried and
nothing help. Then I found on the web someone suggested apple cider
vinegar. Thinking this vinegar is a food in itself and couldn't cause
much harm, I gave it a shot. Two weeks into taking the vineager daily,
my ingestion improved significantly... not that it went away totally,
but to a point which it did not bother me any more.... I told my doctor
about it and he said it was a co-incidence which I did not agree....

Mike Tyner is an OD on this board. Daily, Mike sprays Elephant
Repellant (TM) in his yard. It works. He has no elephants in his
yard.

You might be right about the vinegar. You might be wrong. You did,
however, commit the logical fallacy of conflating cause and effect.
Science seeks to clarify cause and effect through randomised
controlled trials.

When an illness affects oneself or your son, you will try more than
what science has proved, as long as you are quite sure it won't cause
any harm....

I live in that world ... every day. Being in that world can affect
people's thinking. You can be "quite sure" and "quite wrong"
simultaneously.

I've outlined the possible harm of plus lenses above. If you're still
"quite sure it won't cause any harm," then .... hmmmmm.

Be careful.

Why not look for a center that is participating in the COMET Phase II
trial?

http://www.nei.nih.gov/neitrials/viewStudyWeb.aspx?id=123

'nuf said ... by me, anyway.
.

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