He has refused to come debate a scientist and markets a "secret" method for fixing eyes.
In short, I am all for natural eyesight fixes, but this guy is a fraud.
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All of that is irrelevant to the point that the scientific knowledge is public, cited and requires no payment. If you are someone motivated to improve your vision, you get to decide whether you will believe what you can see with your own eyes. You can also find a vision therapist via covd.org, which can easily cost a few thousand dollars in the US.
Edit: Your reply is as deep as the nesting goes, so I am just replying here. I will look into your link, but you really have done nothing to substantiate your claims.
Here is a different site which independently reached similar conclusions: https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme...
Edit: you are essentially asking for an explanation of behavioral opthalmology in an Internet comment. Any COVD professional will happily answer your questions for a fee. The Endmyopia site tries to communicate some of those principle in layman language, and it has required dozens or hundreds of blog posts and answers to reader questions. The link above provides a condensed explanation.
If wearing glasses works for someone, they are unlikely to seek out alternatives. The people who seek alternatives are motivated because glasses are not meeting their use cases, e.g. myopia has steadily worsened. That motivation then justifies their effort to learn the principles used by vision therapists, or the budget to pay a vision therapist for structured vision therapy that lasts months to years.
Do you mean blame as in moral responsibility or as in causality? It's a crucial difference that people miss too often.
Of course, suffering guilt over a thing like this is not very productive. But correcting your behaviour, like letting your eyes rest, is still a good idea.
The current myopia near-crisis in China is clearly a sociological one, the gaokao is every Chinese teen’s only and foremost task，and they live their lives in drab & carmped concrete forests，don’t have idyllic backyards and weekend outings.
Teens are required to sit in cramped classrooms (we don't change room every course) more than 10 hours a day 6 days or more a week,the already meager physical and art classes (1 class a week each at best) were routinely canceled, to do the countless exam preparation and simulation, to get them to become the ultimate exam-taking machines, the higher score the students get in the gaokao, the more famous their school, teachers, principal will be，and yeah more money.
Beware Americans, this is what happens in China where there are no affirmative action or anything, pure meritocratic admissions.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Maotanchang+Middle+School
This is also why I alwayes laugh it off at Chinese's high GRE or IELTS scores,or wharever high scores and statistics, as a fellow Chinese I just know all too well how they got it and it certainly doesn't represent their real level.
I mean no offense, I was born in a Warsaw Pact country.
The thing is, myopia is simply caused by eye fatigue, few may be somehow congenital or hereditary, and it might be slightly comminicable through behavior patterns; "Some people can spend 15 hours a day in front of a computer, and still see like hawks" , some people stare at screens nonstop, some look away constantly.
People in China aren't allowed to move to cities freely especially back then, there are hukous to bind you to your birthplace, back then there were even police in Shenzhen dedicated to rounding up migrant workers (so called "blindly-moving migrants") and sending them back.
What I want to say is that you likely went to some major cities and observed people there, without realizing that those people are entitled to live there, meaning good chunk of them are well-educated and that education was a privilege you need to fight for, that means dedicated learning.
If myopia in China is genetic, then there is a big contradiction: in a generation of teens, those early drop-outs who went to factories and those who were putter around in schools rarely were myopic, yet those who are good academically and skinny had a high rate of myopia.
1. If it isn't a serious problem for you, don't fix it. You were initially meant to be a hunter-gatherer, not an office employee. Your eyes' resting focus point is about 6 meters away (~20ft, this is where "20/20 sight" comes from). If you need to spend the entire day looking at something that is 1 meter away, it's normal and expected for your eyes to readjust.
2. Don't blame it on yourself. It's mostly genes. Some people can spend 15 hours a day in front of a computer, and still see like hawks. For others, reading a book 30 minutes a day can be enough to cause severe nearsightedness.