Definition of rejection:
(1) In the face of a large number of clinical cases and a large number of papers, pretending to be deaf and dumb, the main one refuses to admit it;
(2) Do not provide evidence of confirmation or falsification, do not speak with facts, and focus on one by one;
(3) only oppose, do not study, do not explore practice, do not study parameters, and are not interested in the main one;
(4) Turning a blind eye to the benefits of technology, only criticizing, without construction, and focusing on a double standard.
(5) In the early stage, the judgment was wrong, and in the later stage, we had to fall into blind self-proof, and oppose for the sake of opposition.
In contrast, has anyone been tricked?
I'm Zhao Xiaodao and I'm an ophthalmologist.
People often send me some reverse science articles and ask me to interpret them. These articles look very bluffing at first glance, if you are a non-professional, you may be stunned, but people who talk about science take a look at it, you will know how ridiculous it is, these articles basically do not look at the parameters, regardless of technological development, only by virtue of the individual adverse reaction cases that have appeared in the traditional red light, and regardless of whether the situation is serious, whether it can be prevented and avoided, whether the outcome is good, anyway, as long as there are adverse reactions, even if they have zero practice, they dare to deny it completely. As for the method I want to promote, I don't mention the adverse reactions at all, and I don't want to exaggerate the effect, and I dare to say the big thing that "it won't rise once in seven or eight years", and I am not afraid of being slapped in the face by parents. As everyone knows, the technology has already achieved new breakthroughs, and the serious risks of traditional red light have long been avoided, and the opposite angle is more than ten times that of the original traditional red light, and the security has been greatly improved. And these people are just unwilling to learn and always stay at the primitive stage to look at problems.
Seriously exaggerated and double-standard remarks in a popular science article
Many parents who are using red light therapy often receive objections from individual professionals, but parents do not know whether these opinions are from practice summary or hearsay, which is very troublesome, and I have to teach everyone to judge to avoid parents being misled by the misunderstanding of low cognitive level.
How can you tell if a doctor understands red light? This trick is the most clever. The core parameter of the safety of red light therapy - the angle of opposite
I'm no longer surprised by articles that stigmatize red light. With the popularization of diffuse transmitted red light, the safety issue has been basically solved, and many doctors have begun to promote new myopia prevention and control technologies based on scientific data and evidence-based medical evidence. However, the "public intellectuals" who do not want to see the progress of myopia treatment have labeled the doctors who support the new method as "speaking for capital", openly or covertly suppressing them, and denigrating the promotion of new technologies such as red light therapy and tele-image screens. This irresponsible approach not only hinders the development of medical science, but also deprives patients of the opportunity to receive more effective treatment. To tell the truth, whether it's red light or fog screen, many of its manufacturers are start-ups, and there is still 108,000 miles away from capital, and the annual output value of 100 billion yuan in the optometry industry, where is the real capital, everyone knows it, compared to them, red light and fog screen are not even ants at all.
Many parents ask me why there are no public hospitals with such effective myopia prevention and control methods? At present, some public hospitals have them, some do not, and it takes time. I can only say that the threshold for public admission is extremely high, and whether or not you can enter the hospital is indeed not only determined by clinical effect and safety, compared with the traditional big capital, the new technology of myopia prevention and control is very weak, and many times they do not have the capital to compete for public admission. If you can't enter the hospital, many people can't practice, and their cognition can't be improved, so they can only rely on "listening information" to judge, so some people fall into an outdated and wrong system and can't extricate themselves, and even carry out reverse science popularization, which is not difficult to understand.
If you look closely, you will find that many of the doctors who support the new prevention and control technology are surgeons, and they understand the subversive effects of the new method, which naturally ignites a strong research interest, especially for doctors whose children need to prevent and control myopia (such as me). Most of the opponents are professional personnel with glasses, and those who have worn all kinds of glasses should know that the price is not cheap, and the effect is good, and parents should have been helplessly dominated by this sentence for many years: "Although it is still rising, it is not worthy of rising faster", and the glasses have to be changed every year, which can be called a "bottomless pit". "Glass-only theory" is a situation that cannot be cured, and it is not possible to treat it, but it is in the hands of capital, to put it bluntly, maybe not everyone wants patients to be cured, slow and continuous control, so as to maximize benefits. The so-called butt determines the head, and the basis for us to recommend myopia prevention and control programs to parents is whether it is based on the efficacy, and whether it is responsible for every 100 degrees and every 0.1mm eye axis of the child.
Why do so many people hate me and do not hesitate to create a lot of rumors to slander me? Because we have broken the tradition of irreversible myopia and are shaking the foundation of tradition. The more time passed, the more cases of real regression, and the more people believed in 4L, so I became the target of public criticism. Just like cataract surgery, I advocate that everyone learn the technique of clamping and splitting the nucleus, and the operation can be done within 3 minutes, but those who can't do it will go to the director of Tongren Hospital to complain, because I have raised the threshold and raised the patient's awareness and requirements.
My popular science has also become the most feared weapon of these people. Because the higher the patient's awareness, the higher the requirements for the professionals themselves. Patients with low cognition are obedient, not serious, and do not complain, while parents with high cognition know more and can think independently, which is what they are most afraid of. In the words of one parent, "If you have low cognition, it is easy for experts to do it, you can explain it as you want, and you will not be questioned."
Now there are many enlightened doctors, who have been open to red light and foggy vision therapy, and have begun to practice and accumulate clinical experience, but there are still a small number of people who are stubbornly resisting, and take an attitude of "I don't listen, I don't learn, and I oppose" to the development of new technologies. Parents said that before using it, myopia rose by 100 degrees every year, and various methods could not stop, and people said that it should rise, "acceptable".
I want to say that every 100 degrees of myopia and every 0.1mm eye axis need to be prevented and controlled. No doctor has the right to "satisfy" and "accept" the axial growth of more than 0.25mm per year for parents until all efforts are made. The essence of medical treatment is curative effect, although comfort is very important, but it is the greatest medical virtue to help the vast majority of patients cure their diseases. Although the new method does still have uncontrollable children, most children can benefit, and children who strictly implement comprehensive prevention and control have a high probability of achieving zero growth in myopia, and even some children can regress in myopia, which is a huge impetus for the prevention and control of myopia in the mainland, and it is a "meritorious" thing.
As a doctor, I know firsthand how excited I jumped a few years ago when I noticed the first children with shortened axes and reduced myopia. In order to further verify, I began to reduce the investment in other work and actively organize clinical experimental verification, and after confirming that it was a fact, executable and reproducible, I resigned in 2021 and began to promote it with all my might, and 4L therapy was born.
I think any doctor should be extremely excited when he discovers a new breakthrough in the treatment and effect of myopia in children, just like discovering a new continent, and will immediately pick up 12 points of energy to actively explore. But what is abnormal is that there have been a lot of cases of true myopia being treated, and some people not only pretend to be deaf and dumb, but also have no interest in exploring and verifying (this kind of verification is not difficult, and you can see the direction after observing for 3 months to half a year), and even bother to take action to study the most basic practice of its theory and parameters, and even a few people panicked to deny the objective facts with their own zero practice, zero research, and pure analysis of the head. We can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, and some of them have forgotten that their vocation is to heal the sick and save people.
Unlike other professions, doctors are not only a skill to earn a living, but also a heavy social responsibility. No matter what institution you work in now, or what your status is, when you first enter medical school and choose to become a doctor, you must think more than just your own personal interests. For the sake of children's eyes, for the development of myopia prevention and control, and for their own progress and breakthroughs, you might as well try to move your "butt", let go of the psychology of confrontation, and take a long-term view.
Fortunately, more and more doctors have personally experienced the remarkable effects of new myopia prevention and control technologies, changed their original views, turned around gorgeously, and joined the ranks of reversible myopia. This positive shift is a boon for parents, as it means they are more receptive to science-based, effective treatments and interventions to improve their children's vision health.
As Lei Jun said, the development of society is changing rapidly, and the ability to learn is the most important ability, and it is necessary to maintain the habit of openness, inclusiveness and lifelong learning to meet all the challenges in the future. In order to keep the existing interests in front of us, and give up learning, progress, and embracing development and change, we will eventually lose more than we gain, and will be abandoned and spurned by the times.
I am Zhao Xiaodao
I am an ophthalmologist