The librarian at MIT Lincoln Labs did similar tests but on small pieces of meat in cubical and pyramidal cardboard boxes. As I recall the meat in the cubes spoiled more than twice as fast as the meat in the pyramids. Richard
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > My guess is that his primary concern is to develop the medical > technology to resuscitate patients in critical conditions - ie by > lowering the temperatue of the brain to prevent irreversible brain > damage whilst allowing sufficient time for the heart damage to be > repaired, etc. This is all a worthwhile aim of itself. > > That it also gives him the opportunity to perform some simple > experimental tests of some of the more outrageous NDE claims, is > simply icing on the cake. It's good that he has a sufficiently open > mind to think of tests. I have heard (from somewhere unsubstantiated, > no doubt), that the tests have turned up nothing startling, but whether > it does or not, it's still interesting science. > > It reminds my of a scientific investigation I performed into the > effects of pyramids on razor blade when I was at uni. Its the only > time I've really dabbled with woo. I not only got a negative result > (no significant difference between the treated blades, and controls), > but interestingly, I found a potential explanation of the effect. Both > control blades and treated blades lasted longer and were subjectively > sharper than the blades I used before the experiment. If I hadn't done > a controlled experiment, I would have concluded the effect to be real. > > I published the experiment in a local student magazine (it wasn't > nearly rigourous enough for peer review), and the reaction I got from my > colleagues was quite interesting - generally very supportive, as a > matter of fact. I wonder if that would have been the case if I had > found a positive result. > > Cheers > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:12:44AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > You could be correct that Parnia's study is buried in double-talk. > Usually if scientists reach a dead-end, during testing they abandon the > thesis. If what he is doing, is little more, then looking for unicorns, > then yes, its a dead end (pun?) and we will see in November. > > > > > > > > In a message dated 5/19/2013 6:19:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Since the study has been going on five years, and there has been no leak > of a positive result, I expect that there are no positive results to > report. I find it hard to imagine that an amazing positive result, that > would be known to several members of a medical team, could be kept secret. > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
