Professor of Pedagogy, Kari Uusikylä on Aamu TV broadcast on 22 April 2008:
You cannot create something without being sufficiently independent and bold.
”The only way to make progress in medicine is to act in different way from what textbooks and current practice recommend” (A Savage Enquiry – Who controls Childbirth; Wendy Savage, Jane Leighton. Virgo 1986)
First of all I would like to emphasize that my books are not paramedical nor alternative medicine as they have sometimes dismissively been branded, but sound science that is fully based on physiological facts.
The greatest obstacle to the message of my books getting through is its simplicity.
A GLANCE TOWARDS THE PAST
Before perusing the theme I will be dealing with, we should take a short trip back in history to realize that myopia is not about an ordinary development trend. It is unlikely that any other consequence of evolution, if this is what we can call it, has come about as fast as myopisation. We only have to remember how valuable a myopic slave was in ancient Greece, as a rare person who preserved his ability to read and do near work far longer than the majority of the population. Spectacles were only invented some 700 years ago.
PANACEA!
It was an outright stroke of genius, a heureka, to find PANACEA, or "a remedy for all ills" as the name for my book, the message of which is about plus glasses as a general remedy; in addition, the name has a lofty connection to the history of ancient Greece, as the name of the daughter of the god of medicine, Aesculapius.
Ophthalmology is a field that has during the last semicentennial made advances comparable with any achievements, but at the same time, the cornerstones of our profession have been miserably neglected. This is despite the fact that Sir Duke-Elder (1899-1978), the guru of us ophthalmologists, has already said everything essential about the central role of the eyes in our lives in the Preface of his book, The Practice of Refraction. "… of all the ailments which interfere with the smooth running of the human machine, eye-strain in one form or another is one of the most common."
The great masses, billions of people suffer the consequences of negligence in reducing accommodation strain, and the society pays an enormous price for this negligence.
It has been my life's work to focus on attempting to remedy this situation.
Today, the world is so completely stagnated to routine thinking that totally new viewpoints are hardly ever put forward.
Without real and genuine open-mindedness, there is no point even starting to read my website.
The many "dogmata" I will present have even to me become clear gradually, over decades.