Quote: (Originally Posted by dteubner)
It is almost always a good idea to challenge received wisdom. It is not at all a good idea to discard it because someone is "reconsidering" it.
Thank you Dave, for putting it so eloquently.
It's always funny to see people who really don't understand the subject making assertions based on such ridiculous pseudoscience. The fact that those assertions directly contradict all the evidence and experience in a highly specialised field somehow seems to convince them even more that they are true. Diving and hyperbaric medicine unfortunately has always had more than its fair share of mavericks and quacks. It is a difficult field to do good clinical research in, so it does tend to encourage more 'inventive' points of view.
To all the anti-oxygen brigade I ask this: when you are pulled out of the water with girdle pain and you cannot move your legs because of a spinal cord hit, are you going to push the oxygen away?
Exactly. I thought not.
Andy