Re: psychoceramics: Pheromone sprays (was: phrenology)

[nmcnelly @ bu.edu (N.A.F. McNelly)]

At 2:03 AM 10/7/97, Andrew C. Bulhak wrote:
>Pheromone sprays are a common form of quackery, alongside Laundry CDs
>and similar scams.

Quackery it is.  As someone who spent 10 years studying the
structure of the olfactory system, from nose to brain (yes,
the US gov't is willing to fund such things), I can tell you
that phermone's effects on mammals involves a separate pathway
than regular smells - the vomeronasal organ in the nasal
cavity and the accessory olfactory bulb in the brain.

And guess what folks - humans ain't got either one!

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Nancy McNelly                  "Bastante aproximado pero casi parece
http://www.halfmoon.org             que lo hubiera escrito Tarzan"
Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine