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Billy Williams said: >I've been using antioxidants for years, and bulking up on >them before dives ever since I read about the connection >between CNS toxicity and free radicals. I agree with what you're saying...There is enough empirical evidence to suggest a whole and healthy diet supplemented with some antioxidant agent such as vitamins will help the body defend against "unearned" CNS episodes. > I notice neither >John Comley nor John Crea brought it to our attention that >(leaving DCI aside) antioxidants just might be useful for >stalling oxygen toxicity. I wonder if their scientific >discipline precludes them from speculating in public. If >so, then I reckon we need people like Tom, who are willing to >push a position ahead of the 'hard' evidence, otherwise >there'd be no debate on any subjects involving physiology, >chemistry or engineering. Whatever else you want to say about Crea and Comly, both have a reputation for being tight-asses about safety protocols and my guess is they take exception to anyone saying something is <proven> when to an analytical eye it's not...sure a lot of us do it (maybe even the two of them) but that proves nothing does it... As for Mount...You're right, we need people like him to "push a position..." And since he's been doing it for a while now, it would be unrealistic to think anything's gonna chance him...but there are two sides to a debate, and it would be wrong to let a statement that one felt was unsubstantiated (vitamin e helps prevent DCI for example) go unchallenged...Otherwise, nobady would gain... >Either the cavers and techdiver lists are arenas for open >debate and speculation including solid facts, wild notions >and half-assed ideas, y'know, warts'n all, and the >participants are smart enough to recognise that. Absolutely and in a perfect world you'd draw this mental picture of...Oh, I don't know, some debating room in a uni some place with high ceilings and sunlight flooding in across a great round table...trouble is this place tends to look more like the bar scene from Star Wars.... Take care Billy ++++++++++++++ STEVE LEWIS ++++++++++++++ +++++ http://muskoka.net/steve.html +++++ + E-Mail as above or: diver@mu*.ne* +
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