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Asbestos was pushed as a magical solution to problems of fire in homes without paying attention to the health effects. It took 80 years for the obvious to becom
by noosphr 9mo ago
Asbestos was pushed as a magical solution to problems of fire in homes without paying attention to the health effects. It took 80 years for the obvious to become law.
Leds are pushed as a solution to energy consumption by humans without paying any attention to the health effects. Hopefully it will be less than 80 years of cancers and metabolic disruption before the obvious is done.
But this time the regulation was captured pre-emptively, to the point that following best scientific advice for your health is illegal is most of the developed world.
- Orygin 9mo ago> But this time the regulation was captured pre-emptively, to the point that following best scientific advice for your health is illegal is most of the developed world. Please cite your sources then. And no the other article you linked is not proving your claim
- direwolf20 9mo agoLEDs being ugly or causing eyestrain is one thing. But cancer? There's very little chance that LED lighting causes cancer. We don't have a plausible mechanism for that.
- noosphr 9mo agoThere are no white LEDs. Just blue LEDs with coatings that convert a fraction of blue/violet light into lower energy colours. They work the same way that fluorescent light do. This means that LEDs produce a much higher amount of blue light that incandescents: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectrum-of-a-white-LED-clearly-showing-blue-light-which-is-directly-emitted-by-the_fig2_200071029 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectrum-of-a-white-LED-... Blue/violet light is known to cause cancer for a century now: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-020-01231-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-020-01231-7
- rrr_oh_man 9mo agoThe linked Nature article basically says: there’s no clear evidence either way.