Skepticism rears it's ugly head. Are we, as internet sleuths given enough information here to *find* the name of the doctor, the name of the condition? If we are not, or if a generic-type search for rare lung condition with unproven treatment... or whatever fails to find anything useful.... I'm like that, hard-hearted, suspicious, cynical, etc. By the way what is a "rare" lung capacity. I think what he must mean is a rare condition which causes diminished lung capacity. Turn up the name of the doctor, and I will turn up some publication mentioning his treatment.

Will Johnson

In a message dated 8/7/2009 4:47:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gwern0@gmail.com writes:

I'm a little skeptical that this is any of the real reasons, given the fallibility of human memory, and never seeing anything like this mentioned in materials from the early days - but this would be a great reason, because this doctor is not described as publishing in an RS, so his knowledge is OR! (Bwa ha ha ha. This is almost as good as those Afghan news agencies not being RSs.)