Tube - bro, you opend up a can of snakes here that has really made my day. Who needs standup comics when we have such a great assemblage of comedic minds here at THUNDER’S? You guys made my day with some of your witty and downright FUNNY comments.
Don’t take the poking of fun as a personal shot, Tube - it is just too good to pass up for many people.
As a Biologist by training, I applaud your thinking. Animal testing has been the backbone of scientific research for most of scientific history. Drugs, medical protocols (including trauma experimentation done by the military) and much cosmetic development (with which I have problems) has been done with animals in one manner or another.
The main difficulty(ies) I see with your proposal are:
(1) size of test group and having a sufficient facility/staff to supervise the work;
(2) designing a protocol (as someone has suggested already) to cover ALL the different possible exercises we see on this board [even if you wanted to stay with simple stretches & jelking, there are MANY combinations to consider];
(3) MONEY to set up and support this program [I doubt you could get NIH grant money for this],
(4) deciding on the right animal subject to use - with similar structural and functional ability as humans, or you are doing an inept comparison/test protocol, and
(5) initial credibility - meaning that the test must meet with some kind of acceptability and have some “backing” from the scientific community. [that is not universally needed, of course, but nice to have].
Otherwise, just as with any other experimentation, on the base of your proposal there is merit. It just seems, as has again been suggested, that a better study might be a data extrapolation from the THOUSANDS of notations made here and on the HUNDREDS of other PE sites (legitimate) out there.
I salute your creative thinking, and if you can get it off the ground, count me in to assist with data collection. However, I WILL NOT do the “hands on” stuff. That is for lab assistants, and I want a lead role so I can get my name in the publication credits.
SHALOM
wan2Bbig/Alex
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