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Re:Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodeg... by ip26 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:09PM (#21308835)
The study is worth reading. The light exposure was for 12 hours/day, they showed steadily increasing mortality with increasing photon flux density of blue, and they showed that white light exposure with blue filtered out (at the same intensities) did not have the same effect.
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Re:Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodeg... by manicdee on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:13PM (#21308846)
They also did not test increasing photon flux density of white/filtered light. They only bothered controlling for PFD after introducing filtered light.

Sounds like experimental protocol was invented … on the fly.

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Re:Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodeg... by ghostly_s on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:04AM (#21309275)
Also, white light with the blue filtered out is not an appropriate control condition. What's to say the blue light flies didn't just deteriorate normally and the artificially filtered white light had a positive health effect for the control group?
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