tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post3379094468533811610..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: Delaware State Police Have Incredible Olfactory AbilitiesAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-39010218410287483072014-07-01T08:12:42.203-07:002014-07-01T08:12:42.203-07:00Natalie,
I'm pleased you enjoy my ongoing gam...Natalie,<br /><br />I'm pleased you enjoy my ongoing game of whack-a-mole with Roja Dove!<br /><br />You raise a fair point re: Cheech & Chong league pot smokers. They may be so saturated as to be identifiable by nose. To which the skeptical sensory scientist replies: does the telltale scent rise above the car fresheners, and is it truly detectable from a outside the car?<br /><br />However the question is not whether or not to give police the benefit of the doubt. It is the police who must provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. And when they describe traffic stops like this in terms that strain credulity, they undercut their own case.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-18611155997873647022014-07-01T04:39:58.446-07:002014-07-01T04:39:58.446-07:00I so enjoy your frank and honest posts (ugh, Roja ...I so enjoy your frank and honest posts (ugh, Roja Dove, don't even get me started). In this case, though, may be there is another explanation. Do you think the individuals in the car might have been chronic (ha ha) pot smokers, and thus their clothes might have absorbed the smell? Trying to give the officers the benefit of the doubt ...Nataliehttp://www.anotherperfumeblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-76173930200736616342014-06-03T06:53:18.882-07:002014-06-03T06:53:18.882-07:00It's funny to hear someone from the scientific...It's funny to hear someone from the scientific community commenting on odors as if they didn't exist, when they should well know that olfactory sensitivity can vary by orders of magnitude from person to person. Furthermore, the differences between any two individual's pallets will vary from 15 - 30 percent. Are you suggesting that you are unaware that some genotypes (already associated with both psychopaths and scientists) have severely diminished olfactory sensitivity, as well as little or no empathy? Apparently, the two correlate so closely that it is appropriate as a diagnostic tool for psychopathy. <br /><br />Here is a reality check from the non MAOA- L Gene variant club. Yes, we can smell cannabis wrapped up in Ziploc bags hidden in your pocket, anywhere on your person, or hidden in the car as well. Were it not for the crippling subjectivity of scientists, we would have realized the truth that we are two very different expressions of Homo sapiens, evolved for distinctly different purposes in a world that has not existed for perhaps 15,000 years. Only one of us has a problem with scent detection and unfortunately, it is the side that has the authority to eliminate our oldest and highest resolution sensory modalities from our consideration for a century at a time.<br /><br />Of course, how would the majority feel if they realized that their shrinks, MDs, Congressmen, etc. were actually non-violent but lethal psychopaths? Foul you say, what kind of person does it take to cut off the skull cap of a primate and put electrodes into living brain tissue? What kind of person does it take to create bombs, which they are not completely certain will not consume the earth in nuclear fire? What kind of people could have been so subjective as to suggest that our first and most ancient sense was puny and vestigial, when all of the evidence suggested that it was only so for them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com