hmm..and you are interested in getting an OD/PhD? Why would you want to be associated with such a horrible field as optometry?
Please tell me that you have done more research than just reading the writings of one man. While his works may have never been disproven, more important is the fact his theory has never been proven either.
There are several people out there with various hypotheses, theories, etc that have never been disproven, does this make them all correct? Are we as L.Ron Hubbard proposes Aliens from another planet? Isn't science theory one where you have to prove something? Test it against a series of knowns and unknowns to validate it? To find out where it falls apart at? If it falls apart? It seems to me that it is still in that theory stage. Not science fact. And neither is the "side effect of civilization" theory a fact either. I will hand you that.. But I don't buy into what basically boils down to as "the you're not trying hard enough theory" or the "just relax" one.
There are very many people who aren't ODs/OMDs/opticians that would very much disagree with you. I can count numerous times when I have been thanked for doing someone a great service by fixing them up with glasses that enables them to see more clearly then without correction.
Maybe we demand more from our eyes? We want to see the fine print. We want to be able to distinguish the differences between different sets of lines or use that microscopic screw.
The company I work for has sent teams to third world countries for just about ten years now. At first it was one mission a year, now it is 10. These people thank us for providing this service. They line up for miles, and wait for days to get their glasses. They cry when they are finally given the chance to really see the leaves on the tree, and not just the branches.
While it is true that visual therapy, ie certain excercises, can help alievate the need for glasses, it certainly represents a small number of cases when compared to the large. I see it primarily with accomodation errors in grade school/junior high students. They are handed focusing activities and such, while making very limited use of "reading" glasses.
It is the ODs who primarily try to work within the confines of vision therapy. They are also the ones who seem to really want to work with low vision as well. For you to come on here and basically demean the very profession that most of here are striving for is very bold of you.
How long have you been dealing with optics? What background do you have to tell us what the gospel is? I have read some of his work before, and I have worked with ODs who have tried to use some of it for especially younger patients. Lets jsut say that the effectiveness was less than 50%
I still can not believe that you think that all the opticians, optometrists, and ophthamologists are out there more concerned about making a buck than truly helping mankind. Do you even know how optometry got started? Do you know when opticianry first began? Lets just say that it was way before the appearance of any frame or lens major manufacturer. Heck it was before we became a country...
If you think that modern optics is a big conspiracy to hold down the man, then maybe you oughta find a more noble profession to be intersted in.
Cassandra
Ps if I offend anyone I am sorry. It has been a bad day to say the least and this just was the last thing I needed to read tonight...
Cassandra