More argument just for the sake of argument.

Your case study, Shawn, is an accommodative myope.  Inducing ciliary muscle
relaxation by the use of plus lenses is certainly going to help such people
in the long run if they are willing to do it.  So would be the use of
atropine to paralyze their ciliary muscle.  No argument from any of us
there.  Accommodative myopes are in the minority.  The majority of myopes
are due to structural/anatomical issues within the eye.

But you keep avoiding the issue.  Please answer the question that you keep
getting posed with–

In an anatomical myope, where the axial length of the eye is too long or the
corneal refractive surface it too steep, how will a plus lens cause the
visual image to be brought to focus on the retina?  What anatomic structure
in the eye is changed to achieve this?  Do you propose that the length of
the eye shortens?  Do you propose that the curvature cornea flattens?  Do
you propose that the index of refraction of the ocular tissues decreases?
Or some other fiction?  Try to answer the question Otis.

RM
Ph.D. O.D.

P.S. — If you oppose using minus lenses so much, how can you claim in a
separate posting in this newsgroup to be neutral toward the use of LASIK
surgery to correct myopia.  In LASIK surgery you are simply removing plus
power from the cornea (equivalent to adding minus lens power) to get the
visual image to focus on the retina?

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"Otis Brown" <otisbr…@pa.net> wrote in message

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> Dear Prevention-minded friends,

> I am please to report on Shawn’s success.

> But some of you amaze me.  You claim you are "looking"
> for a solution — but when a obvious solution is
> achieved by a very-determined youn man you do every
> thing in your power to "explain away" this
> type of solution.

> Obviously this type of scientific solution can not
> be reduced into dealings with the public — in
> 15 minutes.  And I would not expect any optometrist
> to be able to supply it — since it depends
> on the qualities of intelligence and motivation
> that this young man has.

> In stead you attempt to "explain away" this
> obvious scientific fact, by saying (with out
> any proof) that he had "accommodation myopia",
> or some other fiction.

> Best,

> Otis
> Engineer

> _______________________

> Dear Otis

> My vision is very sharp this evening. i went through 20/20 no problem, and
> read 2/5 charecters on the 20/15 line!

> I can focus light on the red spectrum between -1/4D and -1/3D and focus
> all
> other light at about -1/2D.

> I feel very successfull and proud of myself to now be able to exceed the
> profecional pilot 20/20 vision requirements.

> Success is sweet.

> Shawn