Re: a stunned pathogen can recover, I have seen it many times

Cool that you got a sycrometer. I wouldn't have thought you'd get one, you just didn't seem that enamored of her work. I never used mine but for water. I never got false readings though. If I could get it to squeal at all was my wall. I had to practice a bit to get that consistent.

So, I'm guessing it's probably like muscle testing or a violin. It works perfectly if you find the sweet spots, but otherwise you can make it say or sound like anything you want. Which isn't what it for--it's up to the user to train themselves to use it properly, like any manual device. It's kinda tricky that way, I think. What small experience I had with the sycrometer though, had that same muscle testing/violin feeling--the 'just the right pressure' thing---it took me a bit of work to find that pressure.

And it was a bit hard to be able to repeat it time after time, until I got some serious amount of practice in. I'm guessing, just like muscle testing or a violin, it would become second nature though, as it seemed for Dr. Clark, after a lot of use.

Are you sure the sycrometer wasn't perhaps faulty?

And Dr. Clark's test subjects never recovered their full range she notes. All of them died unrecovered and die much sooner than expected. :( Tweet