Guide:How to doubt EndMyopia

Probably untrustworthy...?

This guide will show you how to doubt EndMyopia, when you're coming across it for the first time. Wait what?

Obviously, you should doubt this

This is total rubbish! If myopia was reversible everyone would know by now! This guy is trying to sell me something!

— You, reading literally anything here for the first time

When reading EndMyopia content for the first time, if you seriously didn't doubt this stuff for the first time that would be pretty impressive. It's okay because you'll improve your eyes all the same, but mostly everybody has the same initial experience when they find the site for the first time. "It's all a scam." "I mean, it probably is, right?"

There are, of course plenty of snake oil salespeople on the internet. At a quick glance, EndMyopia shouldn't seem all that different.

Reasons to reconsider extreme doubt

Here's a few reasons you should, maybe reconsider if EndMyopia works instead of dismissing it without thinking:

• We have plenty of glowing reviews
• We have a podcast full of paid actors conversations with EndMyopians all over the world
• This entire wiki was built from the ground up by an army of volunteers, for free
• We don't shove paid courses in your face. You can buy a BackTo20/20 membership, but we're clear this isn't necessary to reverse your myopia. (Jakey is going broke though, support us)

We encourage you to be open-minded and consider all of the options available to you, instead of just ours. We're all about engaging those critical thinking skills. If you can understand vision biology yourself, then you are in a better position to decide what is and isn't likely to fix your eyesight.

Comparison to other "vision improvement methods"

Bates method

The Bates method is by far the most popular "vision improvement method". I guess we're already prejudiced, let's try that with more critical thinking instead of disimssing it out of hand?

How does the Bates method address the underlying biology in reversing the axial elongation of the eye? There are clinical studies that just as hyperopic defocus can increase axial length and therefore myopia, the myopic defocus used by EndMyopia can decrease axial length. The Bates method relies on eye exercises such as palming, swinging and other things which don't appear to provide a known stimulus that reduces the length of the eyeball.

Most EndMyopians agree that William Bates was a great practitioner for his time, and came up with good insights. With that said, the Bates method as commonly taught by many Bates teachers is usually far removed from those original ideas. Bates' original writings were also made in a time before prevalant usage of screens which, when combined with glasses, causes a stimulus for lens-induced myopia to occur. The Bates method may be okay for relieving eye strain, but it's largely ineffectual.

See also

• Frequently Asked Questions/Skepticism