Questionable Therapies2021-11-10T02:42:27+00:00

Here’s Dodgy-Town.  A whole category on questionable myopia therapies, ideas, snake oil sales, and various shortsighted treatments that warrant a closer look (and probably some derision by a certain indisputably wise and considerate eye guru).

Whether it’s Atropine drops (poison!) being advocated by “doctors” for your kid’s eyes, or Ortho-K to temporarily flatten (and possibly permanently damage) your cornea, or using subconscious sales tricks to get you to buy glasses, this category has it all.  You’ll see it all, you’ll marvel and wonder how you may have missed out on all the ways you could be getting screwed.  Enjoy!

Lens Subscriptions: Massive, Ridiculous Optometry Scam

All right, kittehz. Low myopia.  Or as I call it, "how optometry creates lens customers for life". We'll do our very best today to just get this out there, without it turning into yet another giant epic rant. Try, kittehz.  No actual promises. *Strong language warning.  Trigger warning.  This will be a rant. It all starts out with this post in the Facebook group: Picture a slowly seething beard. So.  Deep breath. THIS IS A FUCKING SCAM, KTTEHZ. You don't [...]

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The Atlantic: The Great American Eye-Exam Scam

Ohhhhh snap, kittehz. Yascha Mounk of The Atlantic went out and delivered one epic face-slap to the mafia operation that is retail optometry.   He titles it, The Great American Eye Exam Scam. It's juicy and it's delicious.  Yascha asks all the right questions: So why does the United States require people who want to purchase something as simple as a curved piece of plastic to get a prescription, preceded by a costly medical exam? And of course the answers [...]

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