My understanding was rather that the series of studies is not close to being finalized; but thatOriginally Posted by jvkohl
preliminary data suggested the active role of the human VNO, with a big caveat.
You may have been thinking
about the intial preliminary study being "finalized".
But that was, apparently, always intended as one of a
series, designed to address precisely the methodological problem of isolating the VNO from standard olfaction. That
takes a while to do correctly, even though they appear to have addressed a part of it already. It was the
first issue that occured to me, and no doubt the researchers as well. They're taking care of business, I suspect.
In the mean time we have some highly intriguing initial results; that are none the less critically vulnerable to
the criticism that their "VNOblock" may have interfered with standard olfaction -- for now. Oh well, sucks to be a
scientist. One has to be patient.
I don't believe we should interpret this normal delay as indicative of those
researchers' enthusiasm for the VNO one way or the other. They are moving forward with their expensive program,
apparently. So they must remain somewhat enthused about the possibility of a role for the VNO.
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