Obviously I don’t know if humans have functioning VNO’s (Meredith’s review a few years back was rather pessimistic,
and convincing). And I really don’t care. But here’s why I think it makes sense to investigate it.
Those
money-hungry, VNO-obsessed, commercial villain scientists at Erox did something amazing. With their secret
contraptions, secret methods, often-doubted motives and findings they managed to identify the powerful pheromonal
substances AND and EST! Years before the brain scan validation!!
We didn’t really believe them at the time,
questioned their objectivity because of vested interests (they’re not the only ones with vested interests) – but lo
and behold, those $-grubbing bastards were right!! By looking at VNO activation they correctly identified powerful
sexually-dimorphic pheromones. But it was only after later brain scan experiments that everybody is now on board,
and trumpeting the power of androstadienone. Erox could have (and did) tell us that years ago.
I’m not
defending Erox – we were right to be leery of their claims (and anyone else making $ off their claims). But I am
pointing out that Erox was RIGHT in their claims (some of them so far, anyway), and they based their claims and
research directly on the idea of a functioning VNO. Maybe they are on to something…
So why not keep an open
mind, and see if that organ in our nose is doing actually something after all.
Here’s my (flawed) VNO
experiment – see if folks who’ve had rhinoplasty respond to androstadienone in the now scientifically-accepted
manner. Since a nose job often obliterates the VNO, you should have many androstadienone-immune women to check it
out on, if the VNO is indeed the conduit.
The truth (whatever it may be) will make us free, if not rich…
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