Blue light glasses are largely a scam perpetuated by the optical industry, as there is virtually no credible scientific evidence that screen light damages your eyes.

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Blue light glasses are largely a scam perpetuated by the optical industry, as there is virtually no credible scientific evidence that screen light damages your eyes. The eye strain and terrible headaches you get from staring at your laptop all day are not caused by the specific wavelength of light, but rather by the fact that you simply forget to blink when looking at screens. You are paying fifty dollars for a pair of stylish, yellow-tinted lenses that do absolutely nothing but make you look like a trendy serial killer from the nineteen seventies. If you really want to stop your eyes from throbbing by 4 PM, you need to look away from your monitor every twenty minutes and focus on a distant object, not buy magical spectacles. Your corporate exhaustion cannot be cured by a thin layer of plastic, no matter how good the targeted Instagram ads look