rumpelstilz18

> Knowing just slightly more about the value of your car than a potential buyer can make it impossible to sell it

> This means that the owner of a carefully maintained, never-abused, good used car will be unable to get a high enough price to make selling that car worthwhile.

Both statements are a wrong understanding of the phenomenon. The market collapses because the transactions happen outside of the market. Something similar has in my opinion happened on the job market. Most good jobs are outside the regular job boards. Most good applicants could not be bothered to apply for a job opening but are asked by recruiters or friends.

"How can a book from 1982 "debunk" experimental evidence that has been obtained 20-39 years later? It cannot."

Well, it talks exactly about the points you mentioned and that are listed in Wiki. This book was decades ahead of its time. Seriously.

3.1 Isotope effects 3.2 Explaining differences in stereoisomer scents 3.3 The sulfurous smell of boranes

Most of the critiques are debunked in the book from 1982 that I linked.

1. There is no proof in science. But now there is disprove? Link please.

2. The other book, while very old, addresses most critique points.

3. The US military has successful applications of this theory in creating non explosives odors of explosive substances for training dogs.

"Sounds reasonable."

No, it does not. Your eye has no receptors to detect a chair, a stone or a dog. They detect a spectrum. Why should the nose work different?

"infrared theory of smell - a theory that the olfactory sense organ functions as an infrared spectrometer. It assumes that odorants each have a unique infrared absorption spectrum, which produces transient cooling of the cilia in the olfactory epithelium."

This book will answer most of your questions: https://www.amazon.de/Sense-Smell-Robert-Hamilton-Wright/dp/...

This is not bad either

Luca Turin - A Method for the Calculation of Odor Character from Molecular Structure July 2002Journal of Theoretical Biology 216(3):367-85