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<< Move cursor onto the image to the left to see what a myopic person sees.
But for those who want to know the shocking truth about greed and inhumanity in the eye care business, continue reading.... |
And the odds are that someone in YOUR family is a victim of this tragedy.
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There are many frauds in the world, engineered by greedy, unscrupulous people. Getting shoddy goods, or losing one's money entirely is common. But what about a situation where you lose your money and your most precious gift, your vision, at the same time? And what if this is happening to defenseless children in every country of the world? Over one third of our children, although born with normal vision, become nearsighted during their school years. Many have vision that has deteriorated to the point where they would be declared legally blind if they did not have the crutch of glasses to turn to. In some highly literate Asian countries, the incidence of acquired myopia has been increasing in recent years to the point where over 90% of college students are nearsighted! The eye doctors claim this is hereditary, even when there is no history of the problem in the family. But, of all our senses, why is it just our vision that so rapidly deteriorates at such an early age? What if one third of our children walked around with hearing aids or crutches? Would that be considered just "inherited"? The excessive amount of reading and other close work that we do in our modern society is the REAL cause of acquired myopia. And the glasses with minus power lenses that are normally prescribed by uncaring doctors make the vision get worse FAST! Are you concerned about what your children view on the Internet? You should be more concerned about HOW they are viewing it. If they are wearing the glasses normally prescribed for myopia, their vision will detriorate. If you ignore the information on this site and fail to educate yourself, you are a partner with your eye doctor in creating a visually handicapped child. The expense and nuisance of wearing glasses for a lifetime is the least of the problem. The more myopia you have, the more you are at risk for sight-destroying diseases such as retinal detachment, macular degeneration, glaucoma and cataract! During the last century, over 160 million human beings were slaughtered in warfare by other human beings. Compassion toward others is hardly a predominant human trait. This same lack of concern for others is also widespread in the business world. We all know how the tobacco industry does everything in its power to make our children into tobacco addicts so that they will become lifelong customers. The misery and death caused by this are of no concern. In a similar way, the eye "care" industry intentionally ignores prevention and makes our children into visual cripples so they will become lifelong customers. That the progression of myopia leads to eye disease and blindness is of no concern to these people. It's all about the money. On this website you can learn about and obtain the information and tools that you need to prevent myopia. But eye doctors and optical companies do not want you to know about these things that they fear and suppress. They do everything in their power to hide this knowledge from you. Now, thanks to the Internet, you are no longer at the mercy of your doctor's IGNORANCE and $ELF-INTEREST. who make hundreds of millions of children into visual cripples because that's where the money is. which uses its billions in profits to corrupt our government and schools of optometry and ophthalmology. which is totally corrupted by the optical industry so that it funds worthless, misleading research and ignores worthwhile projects. Its twisted goal is to convince the public that myopia cannot be prevented. Details at National Eye Institute which rejected our petition to provide a warning to the public about the dangers of minus lenses and is also totally corrupted by the optical industry and doctors. On Sept. 11, 2006, we sent our critical reply to the FDA and informed them that we were putting the whole matter on our web site for the world to see. Within days, the FDA pressured Google to remove our site from their servers. After we protested to Google, they stood up to the FDA and put us back in their search index. Our government will resort to anything to protect industry profits! Details at Food and Drug Administration which publishes Consumer Reports. This organization claims to have no ties to big business. Yet, when they were asked to look into the myopia fraud, they replied that they would only report on this subject if the information came from a "peer-reviewed journal." It was pointed out to them that the journals of optometry and ophthalmology would not even exist without advertising money from the optical industry, and that these journals will never publish a meaningful article on myopia prevention. That made no difference to CU. In their publications, you can learn about every imaginable option in making a purchase of a toaster or washing machine, but you will not find one word about the choices available to you when your child becomes nearsighted. Do they have an agenda they are not telling us about? On page 22 of their 2006 Annual Report, they list some of the organizations that give them money. A major contributor is the National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health and located right on the NIH campus. Also under the NIH is the National Eye Institute, which is a puppet of the optical industry and does everything in its power to mislead the public (see above). So why is CU getting taxpayers' money from this anti-consumer, governmental organization, dominated by big business? If the top people in our government are paid off to protect optical interests from the growing myopia prevention movement, how would they go about it? A word to the Secretary of Health and Human Services is all that is needed. The Secretary then tells the FDA Commissioner to kill IMPA's petition to inform the public about the dangers of minus lenses. The Secretary also tells NIH to make sure that the National Eye Institute kills any research that would undermine the fallacy of inherited myopia. Then to be sure that Consumer Reports, the most influential and widely-read consumer publication in the world, does not go public with this atrocity, the Director of the NIH arranges for its National Library of Medicine to become a major contributor to Consumers Union. Get the picture? Very neat, isn't it? It's all about the money. What other hidden commercial ties does CU have? which create the ill-educated "experts" who are turned loose on a trusting and unsuspecting public. These schools accept a steady stream of money from the optical industry in the form of "research" grants and other contributions, thus insuring that they will do nothing to upset their benefactors. As only one example of how the optical industry uses its money to keep the optometric schools under its control, visit the official website of the Schools of Optometry at opted.org and click on Corporate Contributors. Note that even Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, adds its contribution. The deans of these schools, as well as the heads of ophthalmology departments at medical schools, may as well be on the payroll of the optical industry. ALL of the deans at the 17 optometric schools have refused to answer our request for a dialog on myopia prevention. who spend their lives applying for research grants and producing worthless research results in order to further their careers. They have no interest in solving the myopia tragedy because then the research money would dry up. Although methods to prevent myopia are already known, they always claim, "More research is needed." Examples of this mindless research mania can be found on sites by Karla Zadnik at the Ohio State University College of Optometry and Christine Wildsoet at the University of California at Berkeley School of Optometry. Somehow it never occurs to these people to merely put a strong plus lens on children for all close work, to totally eliminate focusing effort. Every year, such people meet at an International Myopia Conference to present their totally irrelevant, self-glorifying research. Look at the nonsensical research topics covered at the 3-day International Myopia Conference in Singapore in August, 2006. While they play their games, the vision of the world's children continues to be destroyed. such as Prevent Blindness America, American Optometric Assn., American Academy of Ophthalmology, Intl. Council of Ophthalmology, etc. They disseminate vision "information" to the public but are dominated by eye doctors and financed by the optical industry. They perpetuate the myth of inherited myopia and deny the dangers of minus lenses. which teach our children to read but take no interest in ways to prevent this from destroying their vision. In the words of one Florida school district, "Currently, we partner with Lens Crafters, Prevent Blindness and The Lions Club. These groups are very generous in proving optometrical services as well as glasses to students who either failed their vision examination or demonstrate visual problems." The optical industry clearly has gotten its money and its viewpoint into our schools, insuring that they will not tell parents the truth. This makes the schools part of the conspiracy. For more on what schools should be telling parents and students, see preventmyopia.org/schoolprogram. which never mention the subject of myopia prevention. Their only interest is pleasing their advertisers and making maximum profits. If they had any concern for the people of the world, they could expose and end this tragedy almost overnight. The common link between these people is not science or compassion, but GREED. With such a formidable group telling the same lies to the public, where can anyone find the truth? On this website, of course, with over 60 pages of information you won't get from any eye doctor. For these groups to join forces to create hundreds of millions of crippled children is as despicable an act as most of us will encounter in our lifetimes. They are truly an "Axis of Evil." Everything on this website is true. You don't believe this? You don't WANT to believe it? Read further and judge for yourself. 
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