Quote Originally Posted by Irish
HereÕs my (flawed)

VNO experiment Ð see if folks whoÕve 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.
Good experiment. I'm not sure whether other, less cosmetic

surgeries to the nose (like deviated septum repair) also obliterate the VNO, but they'd be useful either

way:

1) If they don't obliterate the VNO, they'd be good controls; and
2) If they do, they'd be a

better population to choose from, as I think there would be less self-selection bias than there would be in those

who chose cosmetic surgery.

In general, it's tough to look at the effects of surgeries in people, as it is

usually unethical to do mock surgeries on the controls, as we do with animals.