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Today was supposed to be about optometry, hypocrisy, and pseudoscience.
Very fun and interesting stuff. Understanding pseudoscience as a premise will help understand where retail optometry strayed from the path of actual science.
You might say, Jake, […]
It’s Sunday. Let’s start it off with this juicy quote:
Anything with excessive blue light spikes increases the color temperature of the light source. This means contacts, sunglasses, and glasses are additive to this effect because […]
This is a bit of a crazy story, that Stefanie is telling. Strap in, because she went from, what, 20/70 to 20/40 in a month? Legal to drive with a 1.5 diopter lowered prescription? Is […]
Fluorescent lights. Those things have always given me the creeps.
They belong in horror movies and movies about sitting in an office cubicle all day, and in mental institution abandoned hallways. They have that creepy noise […]
“A cycloplegic refraction is performed as a part of a laser visual correction,
or LASIK, consultation to determine the absolute refractive error before
before proceeding with laser eye surgery.”
A […]
“In every day terms, if you wear more prescription than necessary, you might be increasing your myopia”
I quote Jake from session 7 of Backto20/20. I have been reading cases from […]
Dry eyes. Bane of my existence.
I used to have really dry eyes. I don’t anymore, but there was a time where I couldn’t wear contact lenses, and my eyes felt like sandpaper was rubbing around […]
Heads Up: If you’re online looking to buy -1 diopter contact lenses, you’ll want to read this before ordering a new pack.
You’ll want to know about what those contact […]
Take a look at this brief abstract of a monkey myopia study published in 2013 in Investigative Ophthalmology:
Negative lens-induced myopia in infant monkeys: effects of high ambient lighting.
Today is hardcore science day.
If you’re somewhat curious about the science behind myopia, this one might be worth a read. This is actually really very important (if not the most important) bit of scientific argument […]