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What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye In An Eclipse (npr.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Doctors in New York say a woman in her 20s came in three days after looking at the Aug. 21 eclipse without protective glasses. She had peeked several times, for about six seconds, when the sun was only partially covered by the moon. Four hours later, she started experiencing blurred and distorted vision and saw a central black spot in her left eye. The doctors studied her eyes with several different imaging technologies, described in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, and were able to observe the damage at the cellular level.
"We were very surprised at how precisely concordant the imaged damage was with the crescent shape of the eclipse itself," noted Dr. Avnish Deobhakta, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, in an email to NPR. He says this was the most severely injured patient they saw after the eclipse. All in all, 22 people came to their urgent care clinic with concerns about possible eclipse-related damage, and most of them complained of blurred vision. Of those, only three showed some degree of abnormality in the retina. Two of them had only mild changes, however, and their symptoms have gone away. The young woman described in this case report, at last check, still has not recovered normal vision. For your viewing pleasure, The Verge has embedded several images of the woman's retinas in their report.
"We were very surprised at how precisely concordant the imaged damage was with the crescent shape of the eclipse itself," noted Dr. Avnish Deobhakta, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, in an email to NPR. He says this was the most severely injured patient they saw after the eclipse. All in all, 22 people came to their urgent care clinic with concerns about possible eclipse-related damage, and most of them complained of blurred vision. Of those, only three showed some degree of abnormality in the retina. Two of them had only mild changes, however, and their symptoms have gone away. The young woman described in this case report, at last check, still has not recovered normal vision. For your viewing pleasure, The Verge has embedded several images of the woman's retinas in their report.
Why do people do this?
Because women like that generally say Don't tell me what to do. I think they think it's something to do with the patriarchy.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Then maybe, just maybe, all the global warming nutters, socialists, gun grabbers, new age tree huggers, and most of everyone past the first few letters of LGBTQ?%# are doing society an enormous disservice by continually and obnoxiously screaming about how Science Is On Their Side. I can't count how many times some leftie has told me "the science backs me up on this" and whenever I bothered to look into said "science" it was, at best, an opinion poll and abuse of statistics, but usually just a bunch of drivel in a vanity journal.
The "Stanford Study Predicts No More Cars In Ten Years" sort of thing goes very high on that list. People used to claim God was on their side when they put their hands in your pockets. Now they claim Science is on their side. Fewer people believe in God than they used to after society at large got wise to those sorts of shenanigans. The atheists are happy, the self-described Skeptics and "Brights" are thrilled. But the hucksters (some of the aforementioned Skeptics included) have moved on to science as the new God, but there ain't no free lunch. Just like overreaching by religious hucksters backfired in that fewer people believe in God, or in absolute morality as derived from god, just like overreaching socialists gave Britain Brexit, is it any wonder more people are skeptical about capital-S Science?
"I won't let some egghead tell me what to do".
This results in Brexit and Trump.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it