Written like a weird hit piece on white LEDs lol. Only ever calls them blue pump LEDs, calls it blue enriched light.
Either the author doesn’t know how white LEDs work, in which case he should probably stop calling himself “The Light Doctor”, or he’s trying to incite outrage.
Thus Fleabay / 'Zon lumen claims, now running >3 orders of magnitude beyond what physics allows.
Blue die + yellow phosphor is the local minimum in producing white light with LED. Other methods…
There are real health effects associated with blue light ranging from eye damage to sleep disruption. But like so much research on single-factors the relative increases in risk vs baseline can be lost in the summarization as can contributions from other sources.
Definitely but that’s not the problem I have, I don’t even disagree with that. It’s the way its written. He is definitely not fair and balanced. It’s written like a hit piece. I don’t think I need to point out why I think that, it’s the whole thing. He so clearly has a financial incentive here. I’m not even talking about whether what he says is true or not, im talking about how the conflict of interest is so obvious. He doesn’t try to hide it at all, it’s kinda funny but also crazy that this got published in Psychology Today.
You didn’t read and that and immediately think, “oh this guy definitely owns stock in circadian friendly light bulbs or something”? lol
Well, surprise surprise, did some googling and guess who sells circadian friendly LEDs? Talk about a financial incentive, like damn.
“Dr Moore-Ede founded the global consulting and technology firm, CIRCADIAN® which optimizes 24/7 workforce productivity, health and safety with a client base that includes over half of the Fortune 500. To address his clients’ growing concerns about the harmful effects of conventional fluorescent and LED lighting on workplace health, safety and performance, Dr Moore- Ede founded the Circadian Light Research Center in 2010. He then spun off CIRCADIAN ZircLight in 2011 to develop evidence-based LED circadian lighting systems that provide physiologically optimized light spectra across day and night based on comprehensive medical research and a proprietary IP portfolio. Korrus acquired the lighting assets of CIRCADIAN ZircLight in 2022, and Dr Moore-Ede became Chief Medical Advisor of Korrus.”
So this guy:
•owns the research institute that studies circadian friendly LEDs
•owns the company that invented the circadian friendly LED
•works for the company that now sells the circadian friendly LED
•has a consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 companies on how to install more circadian friendly LEDs (that they no doubt supply, which kinda feels like a scam in itself), and promotes his products with posts like this, and psychology today just published that article without disclosing any of that?? Like it’s just an objective report by a doctor that studies lighting? That’s wild!!
This is the craziest conflict of interest I’ve ever seen! I kinda respect the hustle this guy has going because wow but it’s so insane how is this even legal?
Some other random links I came across
https://inside.lighting/press/new-discovery-finds-key-healthy-led-lighting
I but glanced over it - a decade now of alarmism about the looming health crisis of blue light … plastered all over social media and internet increasingly consumed on phones and often in dark bedrooms an hour past the ‘barely enough sleep’ threshold has me convinced that a lack of self control is at fault at least as much as dreaded high-blue content light.
Yeh. Saw this?
It’s great, holding a supernova in your hand, all powered by 3 AAA cells!
Good detective work!
The money grubbing Evil among us is unrelenting.
Like the movie “They Live” says;
Obey, Consume, Breed, and Conform!
Seen some of that nonsense. Also automotive LED bulbs producing more lumens than the engine itself could support if 100% of its output were converted to electricity, perfectly … at perfect LED efficiency. But sometimes they specify wattage, thus implying some ultra-secret next-level LED breakthroughs that have unlocked orders of magnitude improvements in efficiency.
Try living with 4 cats. You won’t give a damn about circadian anything, and will just be happy to catch a few hours sleep here and there when they’re not meowing, trilling, climbing on you, etc., for food, or to play, or Just Because.
And then once they hit the litterbox and drop 2-3lbs of ballast, feel soooo much lighter, and expend all that energy chasing each other around and making a ruckus when you think you can finally lie down and get some sleep, you begin to yearn for the chance to get 8hrs uninterrupted sleep, regardless of the time of day…
Urg…
At least they don’t bark lol
This topic seems to be causing debate about the political angle more than the actual facts of the news itself, so let’s end it here.