Endmyopia:Our point of view
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EndMyopia Wiki is written from a biased point of view. In contrast to more objective resources, such as Wikipedia with their neutral point of view policy, we are openly written from a biased point of view. That means we think we're the best.
There are big checks and balanced on thinking we're the best, however. It is not a position that the community comes to lightly, and there is plenty of internal debate over what is important and what is not important when it comes to vision improvement. With that said, there are quite a few things everyone 'under the banner of EM' have managed to agree on. Here are some examples:
- Eye exercises are largely ineffectual and a waste of time. The Bates method was very good for its time, and William Bates had some very good ideas about vision biology. The Bates method could be very good for relaxing the eyes.
- However the method as it exists does not treat the root cause of myopia as it exists in the majority of people today - which is lens-induced myopia caused by hyperopic defocus, as documented in clinical studies.
- Ayurveda, healing crystals and other natural healing stuff is pseudoscience nonsense that can be dismissed out of hand.
- This stuff is great at making people feel really good about themselves, which is not entirely a bad thing. However, it is next to worthless for actually fixing the root cause of your myopia. How many people who practice this stuff get real, confirmed improvement in eye tests from licensed optometrists?
Rationale
We don't want to promote content that we genuinely think is not worth hosting. You can find objective assessment of other vision improvement methods we know to be less effective on here, and the article will cover the good and bad about it. What you won't find, are long love letters about how magic healing crystals and will improve your eyesight. Because they won't. (as much as we wish they would...)
Would you expect to go to a Bates method website and see loads of positive stuff about EndMyopia? We wouldn't have thought so!