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I have talked to him about it, but he isn't an eye doctor. Eye doctors wouldn't know any better than the general population either.
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Eye Doctors don't have any indepth understanding of the human visual system? It just keeps getting better. |
I didn't say he was an eye doctor. As a radiologist he uses optics in his work... medical imaging. |
Medical imaging means he can read cat scans. He doesn't have to determine how the brain works in relation to the eyes. No opthamologist knows this, so why would he be expected to. Anyway, this is out of his realm of expertise. This was grandfather's expertise, not his. |
If your son is a radiologist (and he should be, if he's reading cat scans), he's a licensed physician. That means he went through 4 years of medical school. In medical school, he took anatomy classes as well as at least one rotation in neurology. If he's a licensed radiologist, he also should be familiar with MRI, x-rays and other forms of medical imaging; and he is probably well aware of imaging techniques that could determine the direction of signals of neurons to the brain.
Most doctors were trained as scientists, and even those that aren't, are trained in how to evaluate scientific studies.
Your son is well qualified to evaluate Lessans' ideas on vision.
That he hasn't implies that he's a loving son who knows exactly what the truth will do to his mother.