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New Urinary Fecal Incontinence, Pelvic Pain, Sexual Dysfunctions home page
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, the 'in' journal at the time in this field. I based my article on the "vaginal myograph" (as I called it then) on Geer's article in the same journal on the "vaginal photophethysmograph" from 1973. My mentor and I were somewhat shocked when all three reviews came back panning the article. One said it wouldn't work because I used non-standard amplifiers. Another said it couldn't work, because Basmajian said you have to use electrode paste for surface EMG. Finally, one claimed that the erratic tracings proved that "movement artifact" rather than true EMG signals were being recorded.
Not to be discouraged, I conducted a series of experiments in which we pulled and pushed a cylindrical sensor in and out during Kegel-type contractions -- there were no movement artifacts! I re-wrote the article based on the criticism, and submitted the new data which proved I was right (and that one could indeed measure pelvic muscle activity by means of a sensor inserted inside the vagina!). Schacter, the editor, never forwarded my new data, and the same old reviewers again dreamed up new reasons why it would never work.
Over the years I gradually discovered who my three blind reviewers had been. All three were very famous people in the psychophysiology profession. One even made the mistake of quoting in public from my unpublished article that he had himself rejected! But in every case I discovered that each of the three hostile reviewers had a financial interest in a device that would have been made relatively or completely obsolete by my invention. (One measured blood flow by photocell, another by thermister, and the third measured vaginal muscles by pressure.) So much for the impartiality of "blind" scientific reviewers, and so much for the contribution of peer-reviewed journals to the advancement of knowledge. All of the reviewers, BTW, have gone on to more lucrative projects, and have abandoned their pet devices. My device, which they said wouldn't work, has already helped hundreds of thousands of patients get over urinary and fecal incontinence, and other chronic muscle dysfunction problems. Yet it has never been described in any peer reviewed journal. Strange, isn't it?
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