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Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com)
A new study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that exposure to the kind of blue light emitted by outdoor LEDs, smartphones and tablets may increase your risk of breast or prostate cancer. The study compared previous exposure to artificial lights at night between approximately 2,000 breast or prostate cancer patients and approximately 2,000 controls living in Barcelona and Madrid. Slashdot reader al0ha writes: This study seems to say that exposure to LED light temperatures higher than 3,000 Kelvin suppresses melatonin because it contains increased blue light, and at least one city (Davis, California) has gone to the expense of removing higher temperature LED lights and replacing them with ones that have lower color temperatures. Specifically, the study found that "those exposed to high levels of outdoor blue light at night had around a 1.5-fold higher risk of developing breast cancer and a twofold higher risk of developing prostate cancer, compared with those who were less exposed," reports CNN. "Men exposed to high levels of indoor artificial light also had 2.8-fold higher risk of developing prostate cancer, according to the study."
Damn! Gonna go republican then, because only then can I shove things up everyone's and get away with it.
They're the cause of everything bad that happens to conservative snowflakes. *(Anecdotally.)
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I set the color temperature to 'paper'... Nice and warm. Not like the frigid bitch that won't have sex with me. Did you know that "incel" is really a thing? It's truly creepy. There's only one way to cure that shit.
Repeat after me. Non ionizing radiation does not cause cancer. Researchers that published this bull shit should be imprisioned.
I have absolutely zero proof one way or the other, but this has “complete bullshit” written all over it.
"men who slept in “quite illuminated” bedrooms had a higher risk of prostate cancer (OR=2.79; 95% CI: 1.55, 5.04), whereas women had a slightly lower risk of breast cancer (OR=0.77; 95% CI: 0.39, 1.51)."
It's not uncommon for a single study to show a statistically significant, or even dramatic, effect on cancer rates. Check out this graph for good examples. You can't say anything about these kinds of studies except, "was within the margin of error."
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And notices entrainment of brain waves.
I don't know about cancer, but just for the sake of your eyes, get F.lux!
It automatically dials down the blue component of your screen at night (with a gradual transition). At the very beginning, it takes a minute or so to get used to, and might look weird.
BUT! After using it for a couple of hours at night, I dare you to vidit a webpage with a white background, and turn it off for a second. Your eyes will hurt, and you will notice that looking at a monitor is like staring into a lightbulb at night. It's really painful.
Please, just get F.lux!
One of them got a job.
No, it is not thing. You can't get laid because:
a) YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE! (most likely)
or
b) You're godawful ugly
or
c) You have bad hygeine aka YOU STANK
You can fix those things or you can just go by a whore. You're celibate because you want to be. You don't want to work for the pussy. You don't want to pay for the pussy. You feel ENTITLED to pussy welfare. Get off your ass and go find some your damned self, ya whiny cuck!
Well, that is one factor.
But actually the chain of bullshit is MUCH longer here.
Basically, it is know that too much 'blue end' spectrum light can mess with your melatonin levels, as well as other sleep triggers (including psychological..)
So then you end up with less sleep, more stress, opprer general body health.
And then you see a rise in some cancer rates.
And its all the fault of Blue light! From Smartphones! no, really!
Its the blue light, not the stressing about peoples thoughts on your current instabookshite, not the being interrupted at 11pm with a work message, not
stressing about your mortgage, not worrying if you can survive in the 'gig' economy.
No, its because the smartphone screen is a little the wrong colour.
They obviously need more funding. I bet they could link it to heart disease, suicide rates, hair loss, divorce rates, and child abuse if they tried a little harder!
Perhaps just go with 'Thing everyone is doing right now linked to all bad things in their lives', that way they dont need to rewrite it every few years.
If you're looking at a white screen background after 10 PM, yes it's going to be difficult to sleep and your biological clock is probably getting messed up in ways that may harm your health.
Certainly going to white on black, and dim, when you're reading to go to sleep helps. But not driving yourself so hard and having a life helps more.
Think about not spending your entire life doing what others expect of you.
Bruce Perens.
I hate white LEDs. They are now everywhere and they suck.
Tried a few LED computer monitors and had to pawn them off on others because I couldn't stand using them. It's impossible to turn down the backlight because they are using PWMs and no matter what you do it is impossible to correct out the blue tinge from the crappy output spectrum especially at lower brightness levels.
Finally found an oldschool but higher end CFL display on sale with LUTs and color calibrator. Had to eat into contrast a bit to get the brightness I wanted but at least white actually looks white not some sick blue and the display doesn't give me a headache at night.
City replaced all of our nice HPS street lighting with blue tinge LEDs made by the lowest bidder. Driving at night is now unpleasant, blinding and obnoxious. They don't even bother with diffusers because saving a few pennies is all that matters.
Around here anything with blue leds in them gets taped or painted over or thrown in the trash. Of all color LEDs one could chose... to pick the most annoying needlessly over bright color possible really sucks. I think vendors have received the message on the use of blue LEDs but they need to be constantly reminded.
Christmas lights break my heart. I used to love looking at nice colorful bright Christmas lights. Now it is these eerie half wave blue flickering things that make everything seem dead. What's the point of decorating if the decorations end up being gross and unappealing?
I am not against LEDs. Just technology that sucks. Myself I have some LEDs but they use remote phosphors and high CRI with lower K. They look fine and don't have insane blue spikes in output spectrum. If I had the money I would probably have sprung for a GB-R or whatever LED display with a wide gaumet.
Most of the problems with blue light are caused by bean counters who don't give a fuck about anything other than BOM cost. Things don't have to suck but it involves customers pushing back so it is clear what we want and what we are not willing to pay for.
The possible health, eye, cancer links and negative affects on non-humans to blue lights have been in the news for many years now. It's probably prudent to hedge against it especially because it's a good excuse to get rid of or stop the spread of annoying shit quality lighting.
"Men exposed to high levels of indoor artificial light also had 2.8-fold higher risk of developing prostate cancer, according to the study."
Uh... So why are so many men exposing their prostates to their cellphone lights at night?
Bah. And I misread the whole thing. This comment is worthless. Please disregard.
Is the study qualitative or quantitative. Is it double blind?
Too many studies that are data driven with no explanation of the underlying causes or are pure speculation.
This one sounds fishy to me.
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Wow! Good chart. I simplified the link: Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer.
Lights? Melatonin? Sleep deprivation? Hah! I have a worse story. And a solution!
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light temperatures higher than 3,000 Kelvin
Like, say, daylight? I guess a person must always sit in the dark to avoid cancer...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Simple hypothesis far more likely than god damned melanin (what idiot thought of that?). Blue light causes you to get worse sleep. Plenty of studies on it, already confirmed. You get worse sleep, your body doesn't repair itself as well, including looking for errors during mitosis, your immune system doesn't hunt cancer as well, you're more likely to get cancer. Boom, easy.
Just tell people to stop holding their phone near their prostate
Eliminate water. Some people drown!
Yes, bright daylight messes with your sleep hormones, which is why most people... sleep at night...
Cell phones cause cancer. THIS NEW SCIENCE PROVES IT!!!
Actually this has been known for years, the study has nothing to do with phones, and it's all light not just blue light. Blue light is 'stronger' than other wavelengths, but all light matters. Even hallway light coming into your room from around the cracks in your door have a detectable effect on your quality of sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
JRE - Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.
Blue lights, hot drinks, barbecued meat, sunshine... fucking everything will supposedly give you cancer now, huh? It's enough to make me give up on avoiding carcinogens and just accept cancer as an inevitability. They really oughta slow down these reports or at least stick to ones that are a bit more conclusive. They're having the opposite effect on me. They're making me NOT CARE.
Was this anti-LED lamp study funded by "Big Sodium" so that municipalities would go back to purchasing the orange sodium-vapor lamps? Follow the money, Sheeple!!!! (sorry, I just HAD to add that, he he)
Articles like this give me the impression that the field of study is still very uncertain: Circadian disruption and breast cancer: from melatonin to clock genes. (March, 2005)
Quote: "The global impact of breast cancer is large and growing. It seems clear that something about modern life is the culprit, yet there is thus far a lack of satisfactory explanations for most of the increases in risk as societies industrialize."
I've been experimenting with Melatonin: Schiff Melatonin Ultra 3 mg. 365 Tablets. ($11.94, but now, no one has stock, apparently. I have no idea why.)
Melatonin tablets seem to encourage sleep.
Over many years of having a business, I've developed a preference for working for an hour or 2 early in the morning, maybe 3 am, and later taking a nap in the morning or afternoon. I'm healthy. Do I have a different circadian rhythm?
I've noticed that people often act sure when their thinking is actually extremely sloppy. As quoted above, "... there is thus far a lack of satisfactory explanations..."
He has to put in a few sciency things he thinks might be relevant to counteract all his anti-science posts.
He's got no time to read the article, too busy on the crackpot sites.
Correlative study.....Guess what people who spend a lot of time out at night do? Drink, Smoke, do drugs.....lose sleep......Wow.,.....hmmmm....I wonder if it could be any of those things rather than fucking blue light that we get all fucking day long.
yeah go figure!
Um. At that temp, wouldn't burning to death be more hazardous than the cancer?
Like the subjects says. "Horse shit"
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
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Can't wait to see the Daily Mails headline tomorrow.
Has this paper been peer reviewed?
Has the paper spoken of all the people removed from the study for not showing results they were after?
Has the paper shown results from a broad range of people, including risk levels and environments? No good excluding people of low risk, because they are low risk.
Was the study impartial? Who funded the study and were they seeking a result before they started?
Are they have a control group of comparatively equal health and risk?
Can they show the study to be replicable?
Move along, nothing to see here
The full article with the image, "Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer", is here:
This is why you shouldn't believe that exciting new medical study. (Vox.com, Feb 27, 2017)
I suspect it was paid for by a company in California that only produces LED lights that exclude blue wavelengths. Or, blue is the first color California is attacking so that people with color blindness don't feel left out or embarrassed. Green is next!
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