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Prolonged screen time linked to early puberty in girls due to blue light (courthousenews.com)
2 points by giuliomagnifico on Sept 17, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



(in rats)

The scary conclusions they're drawing from this study seem highly suspect. How would one account for variables in humans such as diet, home environment, region, exposure to poorly understood chemicals.. the list goes on and on.

> 2012-2019: Watch out for that blue light, it's dangerous. Use f.lux.

> 2020: Nah, it's fine and not significant

> 2022: Actually teh blue light is very dangerous and will lead to HPV and cancer!

???


Problem solved: “No, a study did not find screen time causes early onset puberty” https://newatlas.com/science/study-did-not-find-screen-time-...


Yes I agree, I also disabled night shift on my devices, by the way in 2019 researchers were saying that it was bad for the sleep, now for all the other things.




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