Dear Bill,
Subject:  Are the can the statement of Ph.D. ENGINEERS and SCIENTISTS
(about prevention) be belived.
Re: The first "step", in stair-case myopia.

[...]
I may claim to have discovered the fact that telling lies is bad for
the eyes. Whatever bearing this circumstance may have upon the
universality of defects of vision, it can easily be demonstrated that

Subject:  Optometry is not medicine, or medical practice.
Charles Prentice: Hail to the 'Father of Optometry'
Charles Prentice's pioneering studies in optics earned him the praise
of prominent ophthalmologists at home and abroad. But his status as a

Dear Bill,
Here are two videos with the kids with their nose (almost) on the
page.  The distance in inches is converted to diopters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYkZRBvLiA

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Reading fine print is commonly supposed to be an extremely dangerous
practice, and reading print of any kind upon a moving vehicle is
thought to be even worse. Looking away to the distance, however, and

Why not just leave what ever is left of sci.med.vision to those who have
made it what it is today and just move on?
Don W.