MegaLag, you're the new Michael Moore (but way less obnoxious). Absolute PROPS to you for standing up for consumers and doing a deep dive into a scam we all sorta felt in our guts, but lacked proof. Now we have it. You are a real journalist.
This was so helpful. I have a colourblind brother in law and I wanted those glasses for him but they are too expensive. Now, thanks to you, I have saved money. What shameful marketing from them and the families who participate in this.
"Wow...and this ladies and gentlemans is what perfect color looks like". I lost my breath. From laughing. Imagine that you cure or mask lack of something by cutting off what's left before that. Yeah, sir, you have no sense of sweet? No problem, we'll cut off your food salt in order to neutralize that lack and bring everything else to perfect mixture.
Honestly, the fact these glasses are false always felt kinda obvious to me since i have some knowledge of how the eye's cones work and was really confused to how giving pink-tinted glasses would somehow "restore" vision. So like, the mere idea felt senseless because the light entering the eyes isn't the problem, the defect cones are. It could help with the less intense variants of colour blindness, but if an entire kind of cone is non-functional you won't fix anything by wearing pink sunglasses, maybe you'll increase the contrast but you can't see new colours just because the light has a tint now. So I'm honestly kinda sad this scam even got this far with lots of people buying it, and i wonder if less people would've been scammed if they knew about how colourblindness actually works. 11:34 I know german so when you first mentioned "Kenneth Knoblauch" i completely lost it and thought i must've misheard. In germany, there are a lot of people who have last names based on professions (Müller, Schuster, etc) but "garlic" is an odd one to be sure.
Having two X chromosomes makes you incredibly unlikely to be colourblind, and the sheer amount of wives and other women I'm reading about in these comments being mislead into thinking there was a way to cure the colour vision of the men they care about only to completely waste money for a huge disappointment is just sad. Almost feels like the colourblind are only half the target of these companies.
I could imagine something like this being useful to *distinguish* colours you otherwise can't, and thus pass the coloured dot tests. That doesn't mean you will see colours accurately.
I’m kinda confused how this is a scandal 😂it just seems like normal mistakes that the postal service always makes. When you have that volume of packages, mistakes are bound to happen, no matter what system is in place (in my own personal opinion )
Oh dude, it's no surprise that the mainstream media got things wrong. They've always been over-optimistic about scientific breakthroughs, for at least the past seventy years.
I feel like to properly test these glasses, you would need different types of color blind people, as well as a normal vision person. Then you could compare results.
It’s frustrating because hearing how they claim the glasses should work makes a lot of sense “Okay so the human brain resolves color by analyzing how excited the cells in our eyes are, correlating to a certain closeness to red, green, or blue. Tier one color blindness is caused by one of those cell types being underpowered, causing the relative proportions to be off. So in theory, you should be able to simulate color vision by partially filtering out the wavelengths detected by the other two cells, therefore restoring the balance” It’s almost like, sleight of hand. It doesn’t state this directly, but it presumes that the world around us works like screens, made up of red green and blue subpixels. If this were the case, then maaayyybe something like this would kind of work? But it falls apart when you remember we can see monochromatic light sources just fine. We can see the pure yellow of sodium lamps, but we don’t have yellow cone cells. This is because our cells can detect all wavelengths of visual light, but they react more to certain wavelengths than others, and THAT is how the relative proportions are resolved. Wearing glasses that filter out red isn’t going to affect orange light passing through it because orange light isn’t made of yellow and red light, it’s just orange. I do wonder if glasses like this could help with color rendering on a monitor, since in that case it actually is three monochromatic streams of light entering your retina, but my intuition says it would just make everything on the screen look equally desaturated.
I did not just find out I have tritanomaly through a RU-vid video. Edit: Oh my fucking God. I think I have tritanomaly. I’m now researching where I can get my eyes properly tested.
I find this funny because in high school, when I was first taught how the eyes see color and what color blindess is, I could tell that all these companies are a scam or at least misleading, even more so once I after finding out how they work. Also, when I first heard about this product and the ones like it, for a few weeks they I never heard anything about them intell today, so I thought they whent under long ago.
The incorrect model and not knowing much about the field can be explained... There are tons of crappy research proposals that are slipped under the radar, but there are nuances, sometimes the hypothesis or the model is wrong but that is precisely the nature of science, you might have an idea that later on is disproven. That is the point of research. So having an initial wrong model is not the problem, the problem would be if he faked the data of the experiments to validate his wrong hypothesis. That would be the smoking gun. Secondly, I wouldn't give much importance if the guy didnt know much about optics. Granted, it is not ideal, but serendipitous discoveries happen. In fact most of the groundbreaking, truly revolutionary discoveries happened by accident, and sometimes without understanding the underlying mechanism, or even without a theory that would explain the phenomena. Is it likely that someone without experience in the field to get a serendipitous discovery? Not likely, but possible. Is that what happened here? Clearly, not. These nuances are important to point out.
Not color blind but just an opinion. Wrote a long story but forget that. Try Vermillion Lens. Won't fix anything but I love the comfort they give me eyes. And they do make some color stick out but not a horrid change all around. And the red tent does go away pretty quick after putting them on. Not like you are on Mars.
You could probably also deduce the "wrong" colors are wrong by knowing that color blindness works by lacking reception for what you would call a "primary color". So, if a person sees a yellow balloon and says it looks pink, they're full of shit.
megalag explaining color blindness types with a graph nobody: my general stupidity think it could cure tier 1 color blindness: shift the incorrect colors
ofc it's obvious they don't work, but it would've been nice to see you take a colour blindness test online with the glasses too, to see if you could identify the numbers with them
People born colorblind (I mean specifically those that see monochromatic) how do they find this out that they only see black and white while others see color, there is never any comparisons,. Interesting. -- And also I see color, but what if others see way more color than me withou even knowling myself I have been missing out... how is the color I see the same as someone elses color that they see..
For the monochromatic, they see all in only grey, white and black, so two colours of the same brightness would look identical. So, it'd probably be noticeable rather quickly once their peers notice they can't recognise any colour in particular and can only differentiate by brightness. We do a lot of stuff with colour (pens, games, streetlights, product branding, colourful decorations) so if a child can't identify colours wouldn't be something that could really be overlooked for long. As for the second thing you said about other people possibly seeing more colour than you... the sensitivity to notice slight differences between shades of colour varies between humans. These differences are really small and very unnoticeable though.
Thank you - will be sharing this with the hubby - who received a pair of these kind of glasses from his grandson 5 or so years ago. If I remember correctly, he didn't feel they improved his color reception at all.
While I never really have a channel with my own content, just here for subscriptions and useless comments, a few years ago (more like ten or more) it seems it was quite common that creationists would false-flag videos of people countering their claims. At least I remember having seen a significant number of videos about it. I thought this kind of misuse of the flagging system was better dealt with nowadays. Maybe it even is, but still there's some "leakage." But the most ridiculous thing was a channel that was blocked by having a video exposing how a trendy DIY craft fad was actually tremendously dangerous, having killed more than 30 people around the world. Allegedly because the system misunderstood the content and thought that was the dangerous one, the one telling you not to do the dangerous thing. While the social media companies were happily promoting the videos teaching the dangerous craft. Eventually the ban/blocking was lifted, at least.
It's unfortunate but hbomberguy's video on plagiarism has sent RU-vid copyright awareness among creators back about 10 years. Now the average RU-vidr thinks you have to reach out to another Creator to use their content or else you're breaking some kind of rule
