Exposing the Fake Science behind Color Blind Glasses (Part 2)

[@MegaLag]

Enchroma's CEO has released a video in response to this series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inO9fmWCrrprnZo **Edit: they turned off the comments. Cowards.

[@Unbreakify]

Sup

[@issen2291]

Shit, I've never been this early to anything. Let's see what they've got.

[@issen2291]

I've never been this early to anything. Let's see what they've got. EDIT: Nothing. They've got nothing. Nothing in the video is a counter to any of the claims in this thorough debunking.

[@ripz__1]

It looks to me that they have doubled down rather than disproving anything

[@HaroonAltaf-mp8sc]

Dayum

[@arghblah]

My wife was convinced that these glasses were a magical cure for colorblindness. She was so upset when I tried them on and told her they didn't really do anything for me. She'd seen the reaction videos and expected a miraculous result. I'd love to see these people held accountable for their misrepresentations.

[@Jake_Gotthard]

Aw… im sorry for your wife… well CB Can be a little fun sometimes, as it Can be a little game (idk how cb works but if some colours are a different shade from others but you cant See Them properly, you could guess/Learn the shades together, could probably be a fun little thing!) of guessing? Idk tho.

[@Jake_Gotthard]

Im into space not vision stuff so please correct me if im wrong (CB = Colour Blindness)

[@Pay-No-Mind]

That must have been awful for both of you, bless your wife for so desperately wanting to do anything she can to help improve your vision and experience of life, I'm sorry that these scumbags are doing these things where ultimately they don't care about the buyers or any financial or emotional distress they cause, as long as they get paid 😔☹

[@blurglide]

My GF got them for me and had her camera going to record my reaction. My reaction was "huh..."

[@mooselove]

I did cry when putting mine on because I could see color variations in my sleeve tattoo and the grass (dead patches vs bright) etc. things I didn’t know were different. It was very cool. Not a cure, didn’t make me see colors I couldn’t see, but distinguished colors apart.

[@Triplicata]

I'm honestly surprised they've gone this long without anyone calling them on their scam. This is some next level content.

[@azrobbins01]

It is like the emperor's new clothes. After a "disabled" person has a reaction like they do in the videos, you can't call them out on it, and tell them it was faked or that they are over-acting.

[@masterpassword2]

They were called a scam long time ago. This guy is just the latest copycat to rip off people smarter than him.

[@azrobbins01]

​@@masterpassword2 Are you talking about @MegaLag being a copycat, or someone else?

[@venomousbunny9875]

​@@masterpassword2I thought the company assassinated anyone trying to expose them

[@frankbauerful]

Why aren't the authorities getting involved? The FDA should sue them for pretending to be FDA approved.

[@CraftComputing]

Close to 12 years ago, my wife ordered me a set of Enchroma glasses, complete with my daily prescription. I am Red-Green color blind, have never been able to do the hidden number tests, and constantly mistake certain colors in certain contexts. That last point is key... I CAN see red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, purple, etc. I have little to no issue discerning colors on their own. Its only when those colors are next to other colors that things can blend together in my brain. Unexpected issues between Red and Brown, or Green and Grey, or Blue and Purple... there isn't enough contrast at times to distinguish one from the other when the colors are right next to each other. The Enchroma glasses promised to help distinguish those colors from one another. My reaction was certainly not emotionally fueled, but I'd always explained my color blindness to others as a lack of contrast, because that was the easiest thing to explain, and avoid the 'what color is this' mindless loop of questions. The glasses did make certain colors 'pop' for the first time. Green traffic signs on the highway, and orange cones on a soccer field were two that I noticed. The glasses did help me sometimes distinguish between some colors, but they also gave a false boost in contrast in others, while muting other shades entirely. Like you mention in the first video, I figured 'these probably just don't work for MY exact color blindness', and stopped wearing them after a couple days. Mind you... I wanted these to work. These were well over $500 with prescription lenses. Years later, I started my KZbin channel, and began doing color editing on my videos. I had a couple videos, as you described, where people complained of hue shifts that I couldn't see. I remembered I had the glasses, and figured they might actually help for this task. Again, I wore them for only a couple videos, and found they hurt my color accuracy more than they helped. I still wasn't able to see green or magenta shifts, nor did my work benefit in any way from wearing them, even with a color calibrated monitor. My gut told me these were too good to be true. My brain told me they weren't working as advertised. But there was always the self doubt in the back of my brain that told me 'maybe you just don't know what real colors look like. Maybe the glasses work and YOU'RE the problem.'. Thank you so much for this video series. It confirmed what a lot of us suspected, while not being confident enough to call out ourselves, mainly because of 'scientific studies' and viral marketing told us we were wrong.

[@SianaGearz]

Hello.

[@m4rvinmartian]

I'm sure you hold yourself in high regard... yet you allowed Enchroma to continue their scam. Congrats! You should have immediately demanded a refund. When not refunded, go to your bank and reverse the charge. Maybe even write a "Notice of intent to sue". Why do you people think some "random person" is going to solve all the problems? *THIS IS HOW SCAMS WORK! LAZY PEOPLE UNABLE TO BE BOTHERED TO SUE OR FK THEM UP.* I reversed over 10 grand this year. I bust scammers. Actively. But I can't buy everything. Some of you people people are going to have to do some sht. But I can already tell... YOU are Enchroma's favorite sucker.. I mean customer. Nah... sucker. You let them keep the cash, because you make enough money, where modifying your lifestyle even trivially, is a hassle. Thanks! People with money fkn everyone else over again.

[@TofuRabbit]

That last part you mentioned is really important, people like dr. Boland are basically gaslighting people saying stuff like "you just memorized a color differently, it's you who is the problem" which, is honestly despicable.

[@CockOfTheRock]

The last person I was expecting to see in the comments. This is a wonderful story of your experience with these and I would have never guessed any of that.

[@LaEmporoar]

​@knot_AyUsername it is interesting, but dyslexia is more a problem with how your brain is processing text while the colorblindness is a physical defect in the cones of your eye. Another difference is that dyslexia can be significantly improved by color coding words using special fonts. So if people can't distinguish between b and d, make the b's green and d's blue. This helps trick your brain into reading correctly, but colorblindness cannot be fixed by tricking your brain, just in the same way you can't regrow an amputees arm by convincing them their arm is still there

[@mysteriam9679]

13:36 felt so weird. he was saying it in such a complicated way that made it sound like he had no idea what the hell he was talking about. but more specifically so the audience doesn't UNDERSTAND what he's talking about. edit: compare this to how prof. valere explains the same idea at 15:14. THAT is the way a scientist explains things to the public.

[@thevioletpsych]

This is what I was thinking. It gives the same vibes as the “smart” character in movies and TV shows spouting buzz word scientific nonsense to explain what’s going on, when the writers obviously have no scientific background or did any research.

[@mysteriam9679]

@@thevioletpsychhe's talking like jimmy neutron 🤣

[@lucasmoraesduque6681]

Oh yeah, if not even Logan Paul is telling the truth I cannot see the world in it's true colors lol

[@howbadcanitpossiblybe]

​@@lucasmoraesduque6681 what has he ever done to prove himself as a trustworthy source of information my guy?

[@technoman9000]

It's plausible-sounding jargon but it's actually all nonsense... This is called technobabble.

[@heyyyitsjosh]

What you described at the end is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED to my brother (we both have colorblindness). People at his job, which is a restaurant where nobody makes any money, all pooled their money together to get him these glasses. It made him wish he never told anyone he was colorblind. He felt like he had to play up the reaction or say they were working when he knew they weren’t. I don’t even tell people I have it any more either because of this exact situation. SO messed up

[@notweewee]

The unethical and misleading advertising by these companies have to be stopped or banned, or this heartbreaking incidents will be happening 😢

[@thorbear]

I've had a similar experience without being colorblind. The first time I discovered that I needed glasses was at a party, where someone did the usual gag of passing around a pair of glasses for everyone to try, and everyone makes funny faces to show that they are surprised by how the glasses twist and blur their vision. When I put on the glasses I was super confused, instead of going blurry, my vision cleared up completely! I could see details that I didn't know existed, it was like I suddenly had binoculars mounted on my face, the blurry river in the distance suddenly had crisp and detailed waves. But I didn't reveal my sudden realization, I made the faces and pretended to get dizzy and passed the glasses on, to be a part of the gag that others in the party were participating in.

[@antoniocampen]

​@@thorbear its amazing what social pressure can do. i have anosmia, which means i cant smell anything, and i remember pretending to smell things when everyone around me said they could just to not seem weird.

[@fringeflix]

That was terrible to read, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine that. These scammers need to be held accountable. It's like receiving an unwanted Christmas gift but 100 times worse and based on an uncurable genetic problem :(

[@fuzzyhenry2048]

That's sad but also warm that people care about him. I'd be crying even if they bought me a rock

[@sergeantd5619]

For future reference, contact the author of the study directly for a free copy of a study - they are generally happy someone wants to read their paper. The authors receive no money from paywall research sites, so it is no skin off their nose to provide their study to someone interested in their paper.

[@SockyNoob]

I keep forgetting this is the case. It's a damn shame they see none of that money.

[@jevinday]

Why is scientific information so exclusive? That's pretty disheartening as someone who wants to go back to school and is planning on seeking a higher education.

[@YEs69th420]

​@@jevindayThe actual researchers get paid a grant upfront, whoever paid the grant gets publishing rights. They'll want that money back, so they charge for access. It has the greatly unfortunate effect of making research inaccessible to a lot of people.

[@ghostoflazlo]

​@jevinday why is it disheartening? If you wanna go the route of higher education you will get access to all material needed through your university library. I dont understand why paywalls stop you from going back to school

[@debora13897]

@@ghostoflazlo​​⁠​⁠Because research shouldn’t be available only to those pursuing further education. If your research can’t be read by those who are interested in it for whatever reason, what is the point? Why should university be the only way someone can get access to information? Making research inaccessible can only further inequality and faccilitate the spread of misinformation like, for example, the science behind colorblind glasses, and make it easier to people to fall for these scams.

[@grifferthrydwy]

As a colorblind guy I’ve been saying the reaction videos were staged for years and people always say I’m wrong. Thank you for making this video.

[@SianaGearz]

People are so rude and dumb. It's not the place of people who have typical colour perception to teach people who are colour blind about colour blindness while knowing about it barely from hearsay.

[@AllyMonsters]

Yeah I agree, ya can tell because ya never see them wearing the glasses again if they have some kind of persistent online presence.

[@dominickeijzer5844]

​@@SianaGearzYou know, unless those people actually know what they're talking about. Are you saying that a doctor with regular vision shouldn't explain the nature and reason behind colourblindness to their patient? Just because they're not colourblind?

[@adamgreenhill110]

​@@dominickeijzer5844No, he's saying the average person, not doctors

[@theunholybanana4745]

The more time you spend on KZbin, the more you realise people in general have absolutely zero critical thinking skills and will have an opinion based purely on biases while refusing to change it when presented with real evidence and basic logic.

[@forrestc8466]

i remember being younger (gen z here), seeing those videos and my first thought was that the science didn't make sense. "how could people name colors they've never seen before?" my dad was totally convinced that the videos were real and didn't give me any further explanation so i just went along with it and thought that maybe it was too complicated for me to understand at that age. im so glad someone is finally talking about this and knowing now that my initial thoughts at 10 years old weren't wrong

[@beautifulrose8619]

I thought that too. If they'd never seen those colors in their lives how do they know what they look like and what they are named.

[@KarstenJohansson]

I'm colour blind (tritanopia) in one eye only, so I offered to be part of their study. Having near-normal vision in the other eye means I can directly compare vision and what is going on. Multiple times, they never got back to me. You'd think they'd absolutely want someone like me in their tests. (EDIT: Sorry I keep spelling Tritanopathy.... so whenever you see me mention opathy, mentally replace it with opia.)

[@k-isfor-kristina]

Fascinating! Would you say that the colorblindness representation images are accurate to what you see in your colorblind eye? Does it look the same in that eye?

[@KarstenJohansson]

@@k-isfor-kristina They are exactly spot on. I didn't know I was colourblind in one eye for the longest time. I actually realized it on the bus once, when I was looking at a sign with a bar basically splitting the image, and the colours didn't match. Together, there seems to be a mental sort of agreement, because I only notice when the "normal vision" eye is blocked from the view. My colourblind eye is also my dominant eye, so it's interesting that they still reach a consensus - one is actually focused, and the other is resolving 3d and proper colour.

[@jacenolmsted6293]

@@KarstenJohanssonthat’s actually kinda cool. A good way to turn a minor disability into a powerful tool. Fascinating that your eyes work in tandem to allow normal vision

[@KarstenJohansson]

@@jacenolmsted6293 Exactly. And it's my dominant eye that is colourblind. It's the non-dominant eye that gives me proper colour. When viewing with both eyes, I don't notice at all. The brain seems to take both eyes as input, but selective about what parts it believes to make up the mental image. But if I cover my right eye and look around, say for example, at the No Frills grocery store that is absolutely yellow, it looks very white, and some parts are even slightly pink. But then the moment I move my hand to cover the left eye, it's lemon candy all around haha🤣 The same goes for green lights. Our night-time buses have blue lights. From that eye, the green and blue lights are both the exact same colour of cyan. Until I uncover my right eye, then I can totally tell the difference.

[@aGGeRReS]

It would be actually fascinating if you'd collaborate with this or other creators. And make a video where you'd show how you see a world a accurately as possible. You could also make a review of some popular websites color choices when comparing normal and colorblind eye.

[@The8BitGuy]

Thank you for making this! I've known these are a scam for years. But since people know I'm color blind, I am always getting emails asking me if I have tried them. Now I can just direct them to your video!

[@thek3743]

Hi David! Perhaps you can help by mentioning this scam in your next video?

[@anti_honey]

​@@thek3743 I remember an older video of his where he mentioned his color blindness, and immediately followed up with a request to NOT email him about the glasses, as stated in his comment.

[@MalloryKnox.]

I think as a colourblind person it can be pretty obvious that they’re a scam. I really do feel for the people though, that spend money they might not have on these things, genuinely believing the misleading marketing. This isn’t just a normal scam, it’s literally a claiming to fix a genetic issue whose effects are present and affecting peoples lives every day. Even if, like me they are used to it, it is still a massive blow to believe that a disability (yes disability, maybe not affecting movement, but still a disadvantage compared to most humans) will be cured by paying a company money, only to find out it doesn’t work and there’s still zero chance (for the foreseeable) that they will finally function “normally” and see what they’ve been “missing out on” according to to these companies. Pure emotional manipulation for financial gain. Crapness.

[@xXFlameHaze92Xx]

well at least this is only a scam, and can we assure it dont make a movement of medicine denialism right? i see many paralelism with the fucking MMR Scandal here.

[@salmonsoup15]

how in the world did i now know you're colorblind? ive been watching you for years.

[@Technomage1700]

When these first went viral, we took my son to go and try them out. To our surprise he said they didn't do anything. The clerk said "I recommend you purchase them and give them 3 weeks to work". Sounded like BS to me. Thanks to your video it's confirmed.

[@meganfisher831]

Yes, past the return period or too used to return if at all possible. :)

[@PoppySis]

"i recommend you purchase them and wait out the return window!" lmao

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

The whole "the effects take time to develop" claim is fairly universal among scams that involve a token placebo product.

[@AlarKemmotar]

​@@PSUQDPICHQIEIWCthe other one I've heard is that when the "cure" makes things worse, they say something like "that's the toxins leaving your body"

[@roseCatcher_]

@@AlarKemmotar Or sometimes they try to blame it on you by saying that you obviously had hidden something that 'interacts' with their product.

[@hedjben8064]

you exposed companies, journalists, scientists, medical professionals. what a documentary we need people like you a lot in this day and age, thank you for the video.

[@themudpit621]

If you mean the tertiary author Knobloch, he problematic interest was declared openly, no need to 'expose' anything. His interest in a private company could have been kept secret, they would not have found it, but he declared, as you are supposed to do. The science itself was solid from my reading (it's not my field though), and, more importantly, from the peer review. Reviewers look pretty close when an interest is declared. The finding is interessting and it requires replication and expansion to confirm it's validity, or otherwise.

[@seriousdude4928]

I second this. Great effort mate!

[@TylerWeixeldorfer]

I'm colorblind and I received these glasses as a graduation gift. I felt so bad when I had to tell my family that it basically just looked like a red disneyish filter was just put over my vision and they didn't actually help me see anything I may have been missing. Glad to see your video helping to show others that it is a scam that is not worth buying into.

[@evan6901]

Man I feel worse that you had to go through that yourself. I’ve seen those same videos where people freak out and act like they see colour for the first time. This is super scummy and sad, unfortunately not a big surprise but still shit

[@KarstenJohansson]

Yea, that's my expectation. I think they'll change a few colours here and there, so you'll be able to identify the number in the colour dot tests. But how useful is it, since they also limit other colour vision? I want to know. I'm colour blind in one eye, and I think that can put an end to the myths if they'd let me try them out hah.

[@FukaiKokoro]

Would've been better to just give you the money. Sucks how these scummy companies get away with stuff like this. Same thing with chiropractors.

[@bonariablackie4047]

Had you worn them for three months, the red would have disappeared. Just saying.

[@lbomb8437]

@@bonariablackie4047🫵 industry plant

[@SockyNoob]

"You cannot and should not mislead people with a disability." I think a ton of people need to learn this.

[@alecman95]

You shouldn’t mislead anyone at all

[@sheilaross1449]

​@@alecman95 Yes, and it's especially heinous to target vulnerable people. Our society already tells people with disabilities that they're broken/incomplete and missing out on "normal" life. It is morally bankrupt to market products to these people promising that "normalcy" when that product does little or nothing at all to actually help them.

[@shawkorror]

Leave out the second, third and last three words.

[@Periwinkleaccount]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@shawkorror so ""You should not mislead people with a disability." I think a ton of people need"?

[@Zzz2x]

@@sheilaross1449actually society tells many of us that we should just die, or be homeless. Being homeless is the only way I can get help. Can’t get disability unless I don’t work for 12 months, which would make me homeless. But I was disabled before 18, I’ve been working since 16 though, always wanted to work. I struggle working and living every day and I can’t make enough money to survive, and can’t get any assistance, unless I had kids.. which is sickening iMo, I can’t take care of myself I have a friend with sickle cell who started working and is struggling, lost disability income now, and then his girlfriend left him so he can’t afford all his needs and his dogs, and he is also being asked or pay back 1k in disability money because he started working. They hate us. They rather us be dead. I would rather be dead too, but I didn’t choose to be born obviously All this to say, yeah, we are VERY vulnerable, and our symptoms make us more vulnerable to things like this, and abuse… we need more protections. Thanks for saying something for us

[@RealEclipsed]

Once again, as a colorblind person, I cannot thank you enough, this man is exposing an industry that thrives off people just wanting to see the full color spectrum.

[@studebachorhoch4079]

evil it is.

[@Pax.YouTube]

Classic scenario of the world we all living.

[@ivanpetrov5255]

I guess there is very limited understanding of what colorblindness is - I know it is an inability to distinguish certain colors, but it was only in the comment section of his previous video that I learned more about it. Someone commented "how a pair of glasses will fix the missing cone cells in my eyes" - I never thought about the reason for colorblindness. It's not like bad eyesight needing correction, you're missing the receptors for it. No amount of correction can fix that.

[@ThijsProost-lm6fc]

@@ivanpetrov5255 What you say only aply's to 1% of color blind people, most have all color cones, and as a deutan colorblind person wearing those glasses for half a year, I can attest that this glassed are no such thing as a scam. They do wonders for me. Get your medical advice from a doctor and not from a random dude on the internet.

[@olfrud]

Im colorblind too, why would you want to see differently? I always felt like others see colors in a weird way, not me lol

[@drakonis39g55]

My jaw hit the floor when the interview with Dr. Ken Onion (Garlic*, I don’t know where I got onion from) started. That’s journalism baby!!! The guts in this fella are through the roof

[@beadon1]

garlic.

[@scod3908]

Dude basically admitted he knew Enchroma were misleading people, but he gave up trying to correct them.... but was happy to sit back as a shareholder and benefit from the scam He's a passive scammer. He knows the scam leans on his research and he did nothing about it because he has his finger in the pie At least he was honest (stupid) enough to admit it

[@sarahclay7982]

I do have a lot of respect for him for talking about it though. It is very rare for someone to be open to that discussion/ reflection on their past choices.

[@arshu_parshu1999]

Onion?? That is disrespectful his last name is Garlic, Mr Garlic

[@senny-]

He's way too suspicious to me. He avoided answering any of the questions directly.

[@TowelGard]

I bought these glasses back when they were first going viral, was disappointed and stopped wearing them. Recently my family mentioned them and I brought up the first video you made. My dad's response was, "Well then why did you get scammed?" The reason: I wanted it to be true, so badly. I think the response to many scams is just like this, victim blaming, instead of holding accountable the scammer who is meticulously manipulating people. And that's exactly why they're able to get away with it.

[@NickiRusin]

quite a dick move from dad tbh. sorry you got scammed

[@dickmelsonlupot7697]

let's be real here, there won't be any scammers if people just at least use their brains when hearing some bullshhttt that is too good to be true. Same goes with money scams. There have been soooo many that has happened simply because people are just too stupid to understand that any get money quick scheme is fake or a scam that at this point, blaming the "victim" is not "wrong" and should be pointed out so that people would be more educated in their choices next time. In short, people should be just as responsible as those who scammed them.

[@princepeachfuzz]

​@@dickmelsonlupot7697 every single bit of their marketing material is constructed, these poor people had no idea what they were getting themselves into, have some soul.

[@devforfun5618]

well, if you know something is a piramid scheme and pullout before the scammer starts collecting you can gain money, nowadays people fall into scams becacuse they think they are being smart, NFTs were obviously scams but the people getting in first did make money regardless@@dickmelsonlupot7697, that is why attitude towards this kind of "opportunity" is " if I know about it is probably too late to benefit from this since im not activelly searching for this"

[@zanehaythorn4140]

​@@dickmelsonlupot7697"it's your fault somebody crafted lies specifically designed to take advantage of your good faith", horrible take man. Firstly, being dull isn't a moral failure, it's not your fault if folks take advantage of that, it's theirs. it's like saying if somebody breaks into your home it's your fault because you didn't have a gun

[@vwabi]

The magenta example at 16:35 is absolutely fantastic. Theoretically, if you had magic glasses that completely blocked all green light, you would now be able to 'distinguish' green better than before: everything that looks pitch black must be green. If they advertised that it would be more honest but probably also far less popular because it becomes obvious how unappealing the product is.

Interestingly enough as a non-colorblind person, the 7 is less distinguishable with the filter. It's still very visible but not as different as it is without the filter. Which is funny that they claim it enhances color vision for people with normal vision.

[@spacechemsol4288]

@ Greed made them try target another audience.

[@shadowdancer909]

Except you won’t be able to tell it apart from stuff that is actually black.

[@kphaxx]

@ On screen? That makes sense, you're looking at RGB light

[@JJFX-]

This is why I was asking those commenting on the first video about how it helped them if they've tried sunglasses with different hues, hunting glasses, etc. I have no color deficiency but I wear polarized amber sunglasses because, in my opinion, they really do improve contrast and visual fidelity (for lack of a better term) outdoors. I'd imagine different hues could have some benefit for affected individuals.

[@mystery_pond]

I think some of Ken's bias is really a hesitancy to say anything that they could construe as slander/libel and sue him for. Though I'm not denying that there is definitely what sounds like a monetary conflict of interest involved too.

[@collin4555]

It did sound like he was trying to avoid making a commitment to a statement of fact one way or the other, the way someone avoiding liability does more than the way a scientist does. Which, in his shoes, is understandable.

[@hvallejob.8841]

@@collin4555 You'd be surprised about how hesitant a lot of Scientists are to make "statements of fact". I work on R&D and most of my people absolutely *never* make an absolute statement unless there's a bunch of research supporting our point. It's actually a major problem in Politically sensitive things like Evolution, Climate Science, and Vaccines, because anti-science Lobbyists have learnt to grab "politically correct" Scientists and push the dialogue to "scientific maxims" with impossible burdens of proof. " _Is it impossible to cure Color Blindness with glasses_ ?" The Spanish researcher is absolutely right at saying it's not possible, according to all science *avaiable* and, may indeed be impossible. But It'd be a bit irresponsible to say *anything* is impossible. Who knows? maybe filtering certain ranges of light would fry certain cones and stimulate new cones, and if people had STEM cells in their eyes for some weird genetic reason?.... MAYBE by pure coincidence they'd discover a magical cure with a mechanism we don't understand yet?! There's tons of approved pharmaceuticals in the market where we don't fully understand the mechanisms.

[@wobblysauce]

Indeed, would talk but say nothing for or against, but to talk expand the issues of the study, not just to get sound bites.

[@JJFX-]

It's both that and potentially being liable himself if a fraud case was ever made against the company. Frankly, I'm surprised he did this. While his answers weren't great, I have to respect that there was really little benefit for doing it other than saving a bit of face when it all hits the fan.

[@Cocoanutty0]

He was definintely unwilling to even speak on what was included in his own study, not just about the company’s claims.

[@biscuit715]

Good on Kenneth for being willing to talk openly about it. We can often subconsciously bias ourselves when we think we've found something interesting, and just leave out important sources of doubt in our excitement of finding something new. I don't think anything he has done is malicious, just falling into a trap a lot of scientists can fall into.

[@MegaLag]

Well said

[@marl0wd]

I disagree, seemed very much like he was at least partly complicit. Also seemed like the only reason he did the interview was to cover is arse and distance himself from the company to protect his scientific value

[@fosdroid2511]

@@marl0wd100% never even gave a straight answer

[@PastelOddity]

Y’all, he was as respectful as deserved to “professionals” working under a *clear* conflict of interest, refusing to acknowledge their role in the “research”, and outright backpedaling on things they’ve said. This is serious shit. Conflicts of interest like this in the scientific field are reputation-ruining-career-ending, even-because it’s wholly unethical to skew, misrepresent, or exaggerate findings in scientific research. This isn’t okay, this is a much bigger deal than you think it is. Someone practicing medicine should *not* be okay with his “research” being used to falsely advertise a “medical device” that makes pseudoscientific promises. That person should not be practicing medicine, as it’s clear that money is more important than ethics.

[@philoby_angry_cat9840]

mr garlic was pretty funny

[@randomnobody9229]

You would be shocked at how common this is in scientific research. Just because someone is educated does not make them into an ethical person.

[@sophiagonzales8974]

@@randomnobody9229honestly to distinguish the accuracy of journals is to check the author’s background if it was sponsored or published by a recognizable journal

[@Arckivio]

They are absolutely OK with their "research" being used for anything & everything when they're receiving backhanders to do the research to begin with!!!

[@Ohmyadeline]

Sure, random KZbin profile with no subs or profile picture, you obviously know what you're talking about. F off

[@AlvoriaGPM]

For a while I worked as a UI designer and came up against the problem of designing for color blind individuals. Naturally I learned absolutely all I could about it to the point and delved into enough research that my non-science brain could barely comprehend in order to create shaders that would simulate any form of color blindness and allow me to see and use my designs as people with color blindness see them. When someone described these glasses to me, telling me that my efforts had been for naught as "color blindness has been cured" by them, I straight up told that person that it made no sense for the glasses to work and that they were probably a scam... but that I'd be happy to be proven wrong. After that I never heard another word about them until today. I feel astonishingly vindicated to know that the gut instinct of an art nerd who did admittedly super basic research... was correct. Thank you.

[@f33rcetv34]

thankyou for putting effort in for accessibility !

[@MrPaxio]

its like a restaurant, if someone doesnt complain, it doesn't mean youre right, they'll just never come back again

[@nutbastard]

I appreciate your efforts to accommodate us colorblind folks. I cannot tell you how obnoxious it is that red and green are used as commonly contrasting colors in things like line graphs etc. I don't expect the whole world to bend over for a minority of people, but at least having a bit of consideration for an issue that is very easily addressed for all parties is a nice thing for you to have done. Cheers.

[@akippnn]

This is the UI designer I can actually agree with. So many of them are so concerned with making UI "modern" by sacrificing accessibility. Thank you.

[@kyetes.866]

I’m an accessibility consultant for UI design (mostly dyslexia & screen readers) and thanks for putting in the research & effort to make things more accessible!

[@judestone1468]

When I was in high school in like 2018 I did a biology project on colourblindness. I reached out to enchroma and asked if I could use a pair for my research. They said it was their policy not to offer the glasses for studies. I was 90% sure it was a scam back then just from my research on how colourblindness works

[@curlycocoanut]

crazy, even *further* proof that the studies that they DID donate to were completely biased

[@BerrlyAwake]

Very telling that they don’t provide glasses for studies but they do for influencer videos. 🙄 what a crazy scam. I hate them

[@ClassifiedRanTom]

I feel like if this technology was real, you’d need multiple versions of different glasses, like one designed for oranges, one for yellows, one for purples, etc. not one pair that solves the entire issue.

[@juliabarrow-hemmings6624]

They *do* actually sell multiple lens on their website, but realistically they would need to be prescription because even within, say, Deuteranomaly, there are so many myriad variations that no one lens could ever really work for any of them. Like, in the video when describing the anomalous trichromacies, Megalad says that green is shifted more towards red for Deuteranomaly, but even that is only 1 way in which someone can be Deuteranomalous. Your green cones could just be less sensitive in general, they could perhaps have a more distinct peak or just a different spectral wave shape entirely, they could even vary by cone, hell they could have a mix of any of these conditions. Think about how specific and designed prescription lenses for normal glasses are, and then apply that to *just* trying to fix 1 colour of vision. Additional fun fact: The whole "Varying by cone" thing is how the very rare condition of Tetrachromacy works. Protan and Deutan are the most common forms since they can be inherited genetically, but generally only by males as they are on the X chromosome. Women have 2 X chromosomes so normally the one without Protan/Deutan will "fix" the cones, but sometimes women will have a shifted spectral peak in *some* of their red/green cones which can let them more easily tell apart certain hues that would look basically identical to a normal person. This whole "fixing" effect is also how people with colour blindness in only 1 eye generally see the world pretty normally, the brain is a very well designed piece of kit and is *very* good at filling in holes in information.

[@sampollack8464]

I had a lot of friends chip in to get me a pair of Enchroma glasses my senior year of high school. The glasses did offer more contrast, so I was under the impression I was seeing more shades of green and red than I had before. What touched me more was that I had felt depressed and lonely for a large part of that year, so seeing people cared about me enough to get the glasses was really uplifting. Despite the glasses being a scam, they did help me recognize how valued I was back then, so I still viewed them as a net positive.

[@luigi1606]

Friends can really help getting you out of shitty mindsets

[@SteveEaston-p6b]

That is probably what 90% of others are experiencing too. Excellent observation.

[@lucasolson66]

sweet as hell

[@Max-qq6rz]

@@angelnares9238 he's just stating an unintentional benefit that came from getting the glasses. nothing to have to do with enchroma's intentions.

[@arsondarksea]

Awww! God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤ I used to have chronic treatment resistant depression & only He took it away. I pray He does the same for you, as He is The Great Physician after all. It sounds like you're doing better now, and if so, that's wonderful, and I pray for your peace & happiness to increase in the mighty name of Jesus Christ😊💖🕊

[@muaxh03]

From time to time, I saw 1 or 2 videos of people reacting and crying when they used the glasses, and I felt happy for them. What a fake world we are living in.

[@sovtha]

im sure some of these reactions are genuine. I would cry too if I was promised normal vision, and then realize along my whole family waiting a miraculous result that I was scammed

[@Jhixt]

@@sovtha actually you can see their body language and expressions, the videos might be missinterpriting because of the audience but, you can see gestures like the moment they realize they don't actually work but most go on with the show.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

It's really horrible, especially when they manipulate kids into this.

[@kileg3000]

what's wild is i had a high school biology teacher who was given them at an assembly and broke down crying looking at his kid lmaooo what a clown. Granted i'm pretty sure he got fired for saying racial slurs like 2 years later lmfao mega clown

[@thechlebek901]

dying light man

[@julief8777]

I bought these for my father and son years ago thinking I was going to film this amazing reaction…they both were like “meh”. My father was 73 and my son was 7. I returned them immediately.

[@peanutm9346]

I'm sorry I only trust the opinions of 74 and 6 year olds

[@smiller2044]

@julief8777 Sorry the company is so misleading. *Glad you returned to get your money back*

[@asadabdulqaabir4006]

That's why their marketing is so effective. They don't sell you a fix for a medical condition but a potential emotional rush.

[@bpark10001]

Did you get your money back?

[@julief8777]

@@bpark10001 yes

[@demolazer]

The guy at 25:00 looks guiltier than my 4 year old nephew when he ate all the cookies

[@sdelena3329]

I think he's also in an nda with the company for the shares

[@SandyGe]

Not even colourblind but I love your work & I block ads. So have a coffee on me!

[@KenFullman]

I'm not colour blind but back in the late 70s I bought a pair of cheap sunglasses that I felt looked really cool. They have a mirror finish and the frames looked really modern. When I put them on I was blown away by how much better everything looked. It was as if someone had turned up the saturation control on the world, even though, everything was slightly darker. These glasses were not sold as anything other than cheap sunglasses. Your explanation of how blocking certain wavelengths increase the contrast between similar colours makes perfect sense. I still have those cheap sunglasses (I really like them) and wouldn't mind betting they have all the benefits of enchroma glasses but without the hype.

[@careless_daughter]

polarized lenses?

[@KenFullman]

@@careless_daughter Not that I know of. Back in ther 70s polarized lenses were really expensive. These things cost me just a few quid in Woolworths. Super cheap.

[@lewistaylor863]

I have had a similar experience. I randomly bought a set of cheap mirrored slightly orange tinted sun glasses because I needed some new ones. I picked them as I know that blue and grey tinted sun glasses make my colour perception worse. I realised once using them outside that they actually helped increase the contrast between reds and greens and made things look more colourful. I am sure that the trade off was it messed with other colours and didn't make my colour vision better, but when looking at plants and flowers the colours popped more.

[@CharlesShorts]

amazing

[@davidlloyd1526]

Hello marketing bot!

[@MongooseReflexes]

Now this is true journalism! Well done!

[@MegaLag]

Thank you 🙏

[@jamiesmithinidaho]

😂😂

[@nono-ux3uo]

What?​@@jamiesmithinidaho

[@couch2558]

So here's a fun fact, news organizations, especially small local ones, have the opportunity to purchase slots for their products to be "reviewed" on the news. These are more or less temporary sponsorships. Likely, if you're seeing the news talk about a specific product, its probably paid for by the company. WNEP includes my area when it comes to coverage, its sad to see they too have stooped so low.

[@RBlue118]

Unfortunately, they do need money to operate from somewhere

[@holly6157]

Local news (in print at least) also sometimes has "press releases" that read like advertorials. The press releases are not written by any member of the news organization and instead are submitted to the news as free material. When there is an unexpected gap (in print) or open news slot, these press releases can be put in last-minute to fill the gap. In those cases, an editor might not get enough time to fix it. No one in the news organization is trying to intentionally mislead people in this case, but we deflect the blame on the company that submitted the press release to us. So yeah, not everything published by local news organization are written by journalists.

[@kassjames5301]

I've been telling people about this for years. As a colorblind person who works in medicine, I've had to explain HOW colorblindness works repetitively to explain why putting something on the outside of your eyes will never work.

[@curtishuang5534]

I do wonder if there's some sort of AI powered colour correction that would be able to exaggerate contrast between, say red and green based on context in the future. It wouldn't be practical with our current technology, but it could be an outside the eye solution Though it definitely won't help see new colours, just differentiate them.

[@Lizlodude]

@@curtishuang5534 I was thinking something similar, like he says repeatedly, nothing is going to actually give "new colors" other than new cones, but it would be interesting to play with LUTs for color correction that try to do something similar to what the glasses do, but more precise.

[@TobyLegion]

@@curtishuang5534 For the most part, tier 1 are absolutly fine and the disability has little to none impact on their life. What you are describing is not quite, but close to 'a solution looking for a problem'. It wouldn't be any better than putting these glasses. These glasses are absolutly fine and are doing their job - if properly advertised and sold for like 10 bucks.

[@michaelharrison1093]

​@Lizlodude i was thinking the same idea using a color shift based on an LUT or some RGB linear equation. Color video cameras, immage processing software, and good color video screens are readily available. I suspect however this will do nothing more than proove that there is no way to compensate for inadequate color differentiation in a color blind persons eye

[@cameron7374]

@@curtishuang5534 What exactly is the AI supposed to do in this?

[@octopusoup]

As someone who spent a decent portion of their life studying human biology and anatomy I thought it was really absurd that glasses could supposably "give" color vision when the physical receptors for the missing color(s) weren't present. I never expected to come across the same glasses in this way.

[@spamhere1123]

Right? I've always questioned what was the point of putting a different lens on when there's no film in the camera, so to speak.

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@spamhere1123 well as the video showed, there are more than a handful of types of cameras (6:05... i'd've said _ten_ but apparently the tier 3 ones are all lumped together), some of them without sensor(s) but some of them with merely defective sensors. As long as they stop making those grandiose claims, the "help you see colour in thousands of hues" (24:33) *_could_* be true, in the sense of differentiating between perceived hues that no longer look similar -- and of course, only for the specific types of CVD that could benefit. They wouldn't be the same hues as a good camera sees, but they could still record a better picture than without the filter.

[@flowinsounds]

an active system might work, with hues being shifted and re-presented in a way designed to work better with specific colourblindness, but a passive system is doomed to fail. i guess colourshifting pigments might work, but i don't know many in the visible range

[@Theunicorn2012]

As someone who spent a decent portion of their life studying human biology and anatomy I thought it was really absurd that glasses could supposably "give" color vision when the physical receptors for the missing color(s) weren't present. I never expected to come across the same glasses in this way.

[@flowinsounds]

your comment made me think. i wonder if we could use metamaterials to cause frequency shifting passively, using nanoscale meshes, which widen and shrink as the go through the lens. might need R G and B 'pixels' but could then tune the mesh size change / frequency shift to suit each person.@@Theunicorn2012

[@karlawson]

As a person with moderate to severe Protanomaly, I've always been told "you should get those glasses so you can see colour." And I have to explain to them that im not paying over $400 for a bit more colour seperation. They seem very surprised after they have seen all of those emotional reaction videos. THANK YOU for highlighting the false advertising and straight-up lies from companies wanting to take your money. Even if CVD isn't a major disability, its wrong to profit on someone's weaknesses and their loved one's good faith. Love this series. Much respect.

[@ethanchiasson]

The amount of effort that went into this video is amazing, keep up the great work and merry christmas!

[@Cheapiebeepie]

I suffer from hyperacusis and disability level tinnitus. All the fake products and scams out there saying they cure or treat either are thrown in my face nonstop. No matter what the source of your suffering is, there’s disgusting predators fighting to take advantage of your pain. I would pay any price to get relief from either and they know that. It takes a lot of strength to stay level headed and vet things critically instead of emotionally when you spend every day tortured and barely hanging on. I’ve still unfortunately fallen for some of them and had my hope crushed.

[@desmond-hawkins]

I hope you're getting the support you need for these issues, at least the little that helps. I know they can be severely debilitating and have led many to take the most drastic measures to just make it stop. Some people will take advantage of the desperation of those suffering from this condition to prey on them, it's awful.

[@issen2291]

Fellow hyperacusis and tinnitus sufferer here. Stay strong. Literally the only thing that does anything for me is ACRN (acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation). You likely know about this already, but just in case, you can do that with any half-decent pair of budget earphones and free online software. It provides temporary and incomplete relief from tinnitus, but it does work and it's better than nothing. As for the hyperacusis, noise canceling IEMs (in-ear monitors, earbuds) completely changed my life. I especially recommend the Sony LinkBuds S, though the Apple Airpods Pro (2nd gen) are excellent for Apple devices. I hope some of this helps.

[@Dcookies100]

im sorry to hear that man. i feel pretty "intelligent"/immune to scams but when im in a dark place, some of these blatantly scammy products/practices plant the thought of "what if" in my head. don't feel bad about falling for scams, know that being ashamed and not talking about it only helps scammers, as they can prey on more people due to a lack of communication.

[@Monitice]

Don't feel bad, in the wake of my post-psychosis I fell prey to lucid dreaming pills that were supposed to help me. That shit was straight up fake as fuck, worst trip of my life. I couldn't even sleep in the first place, and I saw what I could only describe as 'hypnotic colors' and also the pills just made my stomach upset. I was desperate at that time because the return to reality was rough and I wanted to be able to have lucid dreams again like I used to prior to that. If you ever come across anything claridream related, get the hell away from it it's fake as fuck.

[@Lizlodude]

This is also the case for basically every mental illness/condition, and it's infuriating. "have you tried weed/insert thing here?" Yeah, and it didn't work / No, because it doesn't work "Oh well you must not have tried hard enough"

[@carcosa_tyrant9444]

your first video really set a lot of the grifters into panic mode, even prompting some to make extremely manipulative and dishonest 'counter-debunking' videos against you. glad to see part 2 come out to put these scammers in the dirt.

[@collin4555]

re-bunking videos, if you will

[@pogmonke5217]

He’s the one manipulating people

[@endunry2]

wait what, can you send a link to that??? Really wanna see this

[@Artyomi]

Lmao, please please tell us one of these ‘de-debunking’ videos or their creators - I wanna see the sad attempt at grifters trying to cover up their grift, it’s always fun to watch the panicked responses of dishonest people after being called out

[@endunry2]

I think i found one kzbin.info/www/bejne/in69p5qHlKZpg9U@@Artyomi

[@puellanivis]

I think the emotional response from the weather man was because he was “finally” able to distinguish the numbers on the plates that he hasn't been able to distinguish his whole life… because it changed the contrast which is part of the illusion used to identify the colorblindness itself. Then, later, when _not_ trying to read the illusions specifically designed with light and contrast to be indistinguishable to him, he started realizing that he wasn't actually seeing new colors… or some colors at all.

[@Rusty_Nickle]

That was always my assessment of these things too. It might help see certain Shades but they're praying on the fact that people who are color blind don't know better. They can tweak it six ways to Sunday and they wouldn't know better because they don't know what the colors are supposed to look like

[@snusmumricken]

33:50 he is aware of that part of the news article

[@folkloreofbeing]

I can't wear 3D glasses and watch 3D movies because for some reason, the 3D effect causes me to cry. I have no idea why.

[@KevinJDildonik]

You watch 1,000 people faking reactions and go, well I bet that guy was real. Like bruh. Most reactions are, at best, "I saw on TikTok how I'm supposed to react so if I just go meh people will think I'm weird".

[@KevinJDildonik]

​@@folkloreofbeingI can't generally see 3d or VR. Crying could just be a brain issue but maybe it's just your eyes hurting. In which case you could fix that. So for me it's astigmatism. Same reason I can't do magic eye. It's really difficult and takes time. But you can learn to adjust your eyes. Get a cheap 3d setup like Google Cardboard which should still exist in some form. And do the old tips for a magic eye like "relax your eyes" aka look toward infinity. With some practice. You may be able to learn to trick your eyes into adjusting. Now I can get my eyes to do 3d at least for quick demo stuff. It's not comfortable for a full VR session. But most VR stuff, like museum experiences, only do the "big" 3d stuff for a few bits.

[@demii628]

started with your honey video, now here I am binge watching all your expose videos ❤

[@gabrielg.9140]

I am totally colourblind and I have always known those were a scam. Because it's physically impossible to see colour from a coloured lens. Really ridiculous. All my life I have used a piece of red plastic to help me identify red (not see), as it would appear black through the plastic. Nowadays I have an app that can tell what colour something is by pointing the camera. I still have an email I sent to them with questions on the physics - to which I received a bunch of gibberish pseudo scientific crap .... Glad you posted this video.

[@meganfisher831]

(Agreeing with you completely) Any material light passes through can reflect or absorb, changing the wave length our eye receives. ...It still won't get you the biological hardware to see those changes just the same as changing the channel on the TV or looking out the window or putting on sunglasses would. I think how they gimmick the smart people is making the glasses magenta- which is the color our brain interprets anything we lack the hardware to see. Which for normally color seeing people, is still a lot. We'll never know what colors exist that butterflies can see and we can't, because the brain just sees them as magenta. So therefor making the glasses 'colors you can't see' will be like voodoo magic, right??

[@gabrielg.9140]

@@meganfisher831 haha. Precisely.

[@Prokkoli]

My biggest fear with this product has been that one day my friends or family members would surprise me with a pair and I would fail acting "cured". The amount of misleading information and fake reactions in those videos make me almost as furious as people leaving comments like "well maybe you are not really colorblind then..." or "you just don't like to see people happy".

[@seanothepop4638]

wouldn't you be able to tell them not to get them foryou?

[@Theunicorn2012]

My biggest fear with this product has been that one day my friends or family members would surprise me with a pair and I would fail acting "cured". The amount of misleading information and fake reactions in those videos make me almost as furious as people leaving comments like "well maybe you are not really colorblind then…" or "you just don't like to see people happy".

[@JeronimusJack]

get a new family, where you can be honest ...

[@FuzedBox]

@@JeronimusJack Indeed. Give them a hug and tell them that you appreciate the thought, then educate them. I assume you should be able to return the glasses.

[@KarstenJohansson]

Part of the scam is that they run the "reveal" in the same way faith healers do their trickery: The initial response is all that they are interested in. You put the glasses on, and suddenly you can differentiate things you couldn't before. However, until you get more time with them, you don't really have a way to determine if you are actually seeing new colours, or simply "replaced" colours. So they get the sound byte they want every time. But if they asked the same people the same question an hour or so later, I bet they'd have a lot more realistic things to say about the glasses.

[@mattygaga2013]

The sad thing is, as someone with CVD, I often struggle to see many colours and I'm open to mockery (friendly banter lol). BUT... I've searched high and low for a solution, and I've always wanted my own "emotional reaction video" to EnChroma glasses... this two part series broke my heart and by the end of this video, I started crying. I realised that for years, it's been a scam and that my dreams of seeing full colour spectrum is an impossibility. Its seriously crushed me. Genuinely devastated.

[@Tree-House69]

I'm so sorry dude, these scams are disgusting because of it misleading both different colorblind people and their friends or loved ones. I hope that one day, there can be advancements for those who want them to help with forms of colorblindness, until then I hope for more colorblind modes and tools that help colorblind people navigate the world and tech

[@BrownCookieBoy]

While fixing/aiding the eyes seems tough, perhaps there may be a way to stimulate the brain, allowing you to see color in the future.

[@Zeppongola]

There's a wikipedia article on "gene therapy for color blindness" that talks about injecting actual functional copies of the missing/nonfunctional genes into the eye, which- if successful -would actually cure colour blindness by a genuine mechanism (by granting the eye the same functional cones as an average person's), unlike the filtering approach used by the glasses in this video. From the looks of the article, it seems its currently in the "works on mice and monkeys, untested on humans" stage of development, but hopefully it pans out, and they can make it as unintrusive a procedure as possible (cost is also an issue, but we're probably too early to get a good idea on how expensive gene therapies will end up being once they become more widespread) Of course, if it turns out the necessary neuroplasticity is there, cybernetics might also eventually prove to be a viable solution. In other words: calling it an _impossibility_ is probably premature, but there _currently_ doesn't seem to be a true solution on the market, and the potential solutions I'm aware of are probably going to be at least somewhat invasive (though the wikipedia article did mention primate trials using intravitreal injections were, though "less effective", significantly less invasive: just an eye injection, theoretically something a family doctor could do themselves) rather than just putting on some glasses

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Colors are overrated anyway

[@shadowwolf3098]

Theres still a chance, but i feel you, except for me its tinnitus and not colorblindness. I was crushed to discover theres no cure for the constant ringing, but i hold hope with the research being done for it. Theres ongoing research to see if potential eye surgery can bring back color vision. Unfortunately it may not be a thing in our lifetime, but it could theoretically be possible one day as technology improves. I lost my vision in one eye due to a neurological condition, and as it returned i was monochrome, protanopia, then protanomaly, according to enchroma tests, even though enchroma doesnt even test monochromacy. The test would just bug and say "too extreme" or something. In a way, im glad i got to experience complete blindness in one eye, partial vision loss, then colorblindness. It was an interesting but also scary experience. It allows me to understand vision deficiencies better. But to be honest, i know im extremely lucky to be able to experience that and have my vision mostly return to normal. Not so lucky to have that neuro condition... Truely though, i feel you. Ive never known complete silence, the ringing is deafening. We're in a similar boat. May we float to a cure one day.

[@abilucksanvijeyakumaran891]

This man is the type of people go all out, just for the good. Definitely earning a subscriber for your good values and the unshakable journalism

[@MegaLag]

Thank you. Means a lot.

[@chadcountiss5290]

I had a pretty intense reaction to the bit with the news presenter in the eye clinic. I knew I was color deficient already by the time I was 7 or 8, but we still had to do those Ishihara tests at school, in front of all our classmates since they didn't have anywhere else to put us. Those tests were a ritual of public humiliation for me as the person giving the test forced me to invent a number out of nothing so they could tell me I was wrong and then tell me I really did have the CVD I told them I did at the beginning. What I'm getting at is that I understand how emotionally satisfying it could be to pass an Ishihara test for the first time in your life, feeling like you've finally overcome something that's been haunting you since childhood, but it's not real. I don't know if those were genuine tears, but if they were I can only imagine how bitter his disappointment must have been when he tried to wear the glasses outside, couldn't see the green light, and realized he had been had. Just disgustingly manipulative

[@jh8320]

Absolutely. It was cruel to laugh at this man’s genuine response. I had similar experiences with vision tests as a child (although different issues) and I would probably act similarly if I was in a high pressure situation too.

[@maddieb.4282]

It’s so crazy to me that you clearly have so much suppressed emotion about the color blind tests from elementary school… I can guarantee none of the other kids really cared

[@lizard1325]

@@maddieb.4282 I just wanna say (to the original commenter mostly) that I absolutely do not doubt how distressing this experience was, kids can be really quite cruel and the school shouldn't have highlighted a condition like that in front of all the other kids, nor had the person doing the test do it in quite a mean sounding way. I doesn't even matter how much those kids allegedly did or did not care, your emotional response is still real. No random person on the internet can have any "guarantee" about something they weren't also present for. I guess as someone who's had my own bullying and hard times from peers as a child myself, it took me a long time to accept that it was valid and okay to feel hurt by those things. You also never know what else someone may be going through outside of the one isolated incident they shared about.

[@Laura-iu8sp]

​@@jh8320Totally agree, I enjoyed this video but he shouldn't have made fun of that poor guy for getting emotional. I think there's a good chance those were genuine tears.

[@smiller2044]

*Also, the journalist is looking at the number test, not the world outside*

[@MrSolenoid]

I bought some $10 colorblind glasses on eBay for fun. They do make it easier to separate some colors. But they also flattens other colors. From what I've heard in this video, they do the same job as the $300 enchroma glasses.

[@Jake_Gotthard]

Basically they just change what you are hard at seeing? Its kinda like “i mean you cant get rid of it, but you Can make it remove ATTACK instead of DEFENSE” (yes i absolutely just used a video game thing as a reference, and it absolutely works)

[@4fiHysteria]

​@Jake_Gotthard not quite, more like: They change what you use to differentiate colour. Instead of looking at the colour information, you just look at the brightness instead. You see the same colours as before, but some of them look darker than before so it's easier to guess what they are. You still wouldn't actually know.

[@Woynich]

At 16:30 in the video there’s a pretty good demonstration of what’s going on.

[@kameljoe21]

Really for those of us who do have problems we need a filter to help adjust some colors. Really I do think that in the future glasses or contacts could filter out color and change the tint, brighness or what ever to help see something better. For example when he moved the plastic sheet over the color dots the 7 was shown far more clear to me. This is what I would like to see. I could help me adjust the shades better.

[@banderas1879]

When I was about 14 or 15 these I found out I was colorblind and went on to thoroughly learn the biology and physiology of how our vision works. A few months later is when these staged glasses videos started to pop out and I would get asked all the time if I want to get them. I was convinced these were a scam from the get go and told people as such but it would fall on deaf ears more often than not for the last 8 years. So thank you for popularizing this knowledge and making it a lot easier to convince people to not spend hundreds on this product

[@bpark10001]

Have you tried them?

[@seanothepop4638]

@@JPSO1677 I feel if this was believable on the internet you'd get more fan fare and people posting they believe you. Did your comment achieve what you wanted?

[@JPSO1677]

@@seanothepop4638 if somebody wants to leave a comment on any of my videos they can do so. I don't edit nothing but this is all new to me and my videos are put up recently only one is a year old, and I didn't have comments on, I guess but if somebody wishes to leave a comment they can do so whether they believe me or not I really don't care I know the glasses work for me and that's all that matters I'm just telling people to try also tell people to listen to all the critics but to at least try before you make up your mind.

[@Omar-hs9hy]

Thanks! To help with paywalls for other papers.

[@MJS-PS144]

My heart is breaking watching this but thank you. My wife had planned on buying these for me for my birthday. Now, I am glad we won't be throwing that money away... bittersweet.

[@meganfisher831]

One thing I learned as an artist is values are everything. Lights, and darks. You can make a super realistic giraffe with just shades of black, purple, and white- so overall just one color represented in different shades of itself, because the details are correct in values via photo reference. And the one upside to colorblindness is their perception of values are greatly enhanced, which means, you could be enjoying works of the greats in a way us color people cannot. Ya'll can also see the whole picture all at the same time, and color seeing folks are literally lead by a sort of 'line of sight' trail to whatever tends to be brightest or sharpest, so we sometimes waste time or miss things. At least it's not all bad!

[@MJS-PS144]

@@meganfisher831 Thanks for your response! Being a "moderate deuter" I am thankful that I can still see a wide variety of color. My color vision is mostly impacted by the shades of colors making them appear to be others (light orange looks yellow, dark orange looks red, some reds and greens appear brown until I compare or someone corrects me) as well as the ambient light throwing off some as well. All in all, you do da don't know what you don't know and I don't stress much about it. I only think about it when it gets noticed by someone else and we have a little laugh, or when I am seeing those colorblind glasses reaction videos and think, "can I experience a whole world of color Im not aware of?"

[@Clearwaffles]

Me too buddy, me too..

[@zacharycarter7766]

@@MJS-PS144you can’t experience anything you’re not aware of

[@JPSO1677]

If you are red and green deficient you should go to an eye doctor have them diagnose you I bought a pair of glasses they were not Enchroma also I had a contact lens called (X Chrome) and they enhance color for me. I was allowed to see bright colors for the first time everybody is different do all your research not just part of it good luck.

[@SockyNoob]

It's always amazing when scientists take time out of their day to respond to people who have questions over their papers and research. I know many who at least attempt to respond, even if it's just an email. Some are extremely busy, but are usually humbled when people ask. Consider yourself lucky that you got a full video call!

[@tgime1]

Scientists love talking about their research lol. It’s super validating when someone shows interest in your very niche findings

[@bernardosouza2629]

I was doing a paper about polymers, and as a little gun enthusiast I email Glock's RnD department about information of the polymer of the guns because I couldn't find it online, turns out it (obviously but sadly) that it is trade secret, yet I was surprised that the technical supervisor replied me in 2 days. I am pretty sure that if they could answer they'd have.

[@oceanstaiga5928]

You can really tell that a scientist is into their field of study by that. As a bachelors student I reached out to a history prof for clarification about something in a paper he wrote a decade earlier and he answered my mail within a day going into great detail, it was super helpful for my thesis. To be honest I didn’t expect much reaching out as a mere undergrad student, but I think most of the scientific community is stoked to share their research :)

[@SockyNoob]

@@tgime1 I feel the same way when somebody takes interest in my citizen science, aka iNaturalist observations. So that makes a lot of sense.

[@Sylfa]

You're actually recommended to contact scientists who wrote a paper directly, rather than paying those services for a copy. Not only is the scientist allowed to do so, but they also don't see any of the money you pay for access. Much nicer for them to see people be interested and know their work is useful to someone. I do agree that he was lucky the scientist of a paper with so many warning flags responded though. It's not at all likely to get a response from someone that is writing papers with an N

[@SemicolonExpected]

For future reference if you see a paywalled journal article if you have a university login (some unis let you keep it years after you graduated) you might be able to access it for free. You could also ask your subscribers or followers if they could get the article for you through their institutions library. (I'm def willing to help). Lastly, most authors will just send you their article for free bc they dont even see the money from people accessing the article, that 40 dollars you paid goes to the journal itself. (I know this last option was probably not something that wouldve worked in this specific scenario though)

[@curtishuang5534]

Also cough cough scihub cough

[@wereoctopus]

also, sci-hub

[@Shori948]

Or just sci-hub it

[@ariuss3009]

@@Shori948 yeah, honestly. The journals are just profiteering off the science that was paid for by governments and research institutions. That would have been bad enough by itself. But it gets worse. This slows the progress of science, since sometimes you can't access papers, drains additional funds from research (universities usually pay ridiculous sums of money to the journals). Oh, also, the academics who do peer reviews for journals usually aren't even paid! So the journals literally take a lot of money just for admin and publishing the article to their webpage...

[@jevinday]

Why is information like this so exclusive?

[@hazelleblanc8969]

Thank you so much for both of your videos. My father was red-green color blind and I wanted to get him these, but they were awfully expensive. Since he passed a few years ago, I have felt a little guilty knowing that he never got these so he could experience true colors. It's such a comfort to know that they wouldn't have made a difference .

[@l-l]

I'm sorry for your loss. It's truly despicable how these companies prey on that exact emotional aspect. Their marketing is so misleading and perfectly crafted to lure in people who are colorblind or loved ones of those who are.

[@sciencoking]

A while after hearing about these glasses, I realized you could replicate the effect by lighting a room with the right selection of LEDs. It didn't sit well with me because I was pretty sure that would look like shit. Guess I was right!

[@TobyLegion]

Red light districts have been using this trick for ages...

[@adamgreenhill110]

​​@@TobyLegionI booked a holiday for my friend to visit a Red Light District, I care about his colorblindness so much

[@kevincronk7981]

5:53 I recently had anesthesia for a dental operation and it temporarily made my vision go away, when it came back at first only my rod cells came back, so it was essentially like monochromacy for 5 minutes. It didn't really look like that black and white filter, everything was either the color white or the color black, it was like the contrast of my vision was boosted up to 100%

[@twojointsjay7330]

That is fascinating thank you for sharing that experience. So there was no greyscale at all, it was literally black/white, with nothing inbetween? That's so interesting.

[@keylor_cr]

but there must have been a grayscale no? Otherwise you see either a black or a white “plain” image (like looking at a piece of paper)

[@kevincronk7981]

@keylor_cr I'm sure that for people who see like that regularly there is a bit of a greyscale, but for me there was quite literally none at all until my cone cells started coming back and I started seeing color again. Things were either bright or dark, for example my jeans had some bits where there was a shadow, some bits that more light was hitting them. Normally, I'd see the spectrum of how bright those various areas were. But at that time, my jeans didn't even look like jeans, just weird white and black spots literally as if you had turned the contrast setting on a camera way up and then turned it way up again

[@fangornthewise]

@@kevincronk7981 Almost like an old comic book or a manga then?

[@kevincronk7981]

@fangornthewise yeah I guess, with less detail but you can probably chalk that up to the anesthesia

[@djJaXx101]

lol 36:21 "every pillar of trust in our society media, medical professionals, scientists..." ok... "logan paul" wait wut? lol

[@hampter460]

My aunt got these glasses for me (as I'm colorblind) but I didn't really feel its effect. I thought it was just a problem with the specific brand or it doesn't work with my type of colorblindness. Needless to say, I was relieved that tons of people had the same experience as me and it validated my experience. Thank you for making this video

[@DomainOfEden]

I remember seeing those glasses all over the internet back when I was a teen and getting so happy for colorblind people... thank you for the courage, money you spent and time you took of your daily life to expose those scammers. its crazy that their logic goes "oh, so you're colorblind? wear these glasses and you'll get another spectrum of colorblindness instead of seeing all colors, but hey! you'll have some more contrast!"

[@Iragashi-Kaito]

"And make us a butt load richer! Since the glasses are cheap shit from China that we buy in bulk and slap our logo on!" The news sites blew this up because no one there has a bullshit detector in their brain. Also, hello there fellow captain.

[@DomainOfEden]

@@Iragashi-Kaito exactly!! they went all that way to just grab a bunch of cheap materials, glue them together and sell for 300 bucks... and hi btw!! always nice to see honkai players everywhere 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@antonnym214]

First, thank you for exposing this! I love what you said, "you can't put a price on the truth." That's going to be my quote for the day, but seriously, we hope you feel appreciated for this because you are.

[@Theunicorn2012]

First, thank you for exposing this! I love what you said, "you can't put a price on the truth." That's going to be my quote for the day, but seriously, we hope you feel appreciated for this because you are.

[@connorhart7597]

I feel like there really oughta be like a "netflix" type thing for scientific, historic, studies etc. papers. Like a monthly cost and unlimited access. That'd make it a lot easier for especially laypeople like myself to look through studies and do our own due diligence. But paying 40$ for a page and a half is just not feasible.

[@transcyberism1459]

Oh! I actually work with a vision scientist in his lab, lol. I'm just an undergrad but I'm well-versed in color vision science. So trichromacy theory as detailed in the first part of the video is actually a little limited. It's mostly true, but importantly not fully accurate for describing how people differentiate similar colors, especially when they are affected by colorblindness. A more accurate explanation is called opponent process theory, which is the idea that some cones actually directly inhibit each other. The ganglion cells in the eyes are wired up as sets of opponent circuits, one that detects either blue or yellow, and one that detects either red or green. You cannot perceive, for example, a bluish yellow - such a color does not exist. So whenever you see blue light, the perception of yellow is inhibited, and whenever you see red light, the perception of green is inhibited. Color blindness happens, in protanomaly and deuteranomaly, because those overlapping regions are inhibiting each other - wavelengths of light that would normally produce different responses from the red vs green cones produce nearly the same response which causes the signals to cancel out. while removing certain wavelengths might improve color differentiation a little bit, it's never actually going to allow you to distinguish colors near the center of the overlap (especially since those are the wavelengths being filtered). You might learn to rely on your third cone to compensate, i.e. picking up on other wavelengths that might be present in different levels depending on the actual pigments you're looking at (won't work on a computer screen at all), but it will never restore color vision to that range.

[@transcyberism1459]

I will also add on, as someone with some inside experience in research, Ken certainly placed himself in an awkward position. The thing is that even in studies without conflicts of interests like this, there is always the problem of publication bias - negative results are much less likely to be published by journals which is effectively just because the editorial team tends to see them as less "groundbreaking." So there's a really strong (unethical) tendency to bury negative parts of the findings in the appendix and things like what Ken did - you would rather have your title be 'new glasses fix colorblindness,' not 'evidence about new glasses is mixed.' Edit to add: he's also clearly trying to avoid saying anything outright disparaging to Enchroma for legal reasons (e.g. they could accuse him of libel, or, if he were to sell or short their stocks because of the effects of your video, of insider trading)

[@kosiranze]

Question, instead of using filters to block certain wavelengths, would it be possible to use quantum dots in glasses to shift parts of the spectrum towards the red? An if possible at all, would the result be any different than just a simple color filter (except for possibly appearing less dark?)

[@transcyberism1459]

@@kosiranze Honestly I don't know how quantum dots work, so all I can really say is "idk, maybe". But the thing is that you would likely still run into similar problems, because people with these color deficiencies are just overall bad at distinguishing certain colors - I have a hunch that moving the wavelengths around like that would just e.g. make everything look too red or something. You're just never going to get the cones to really have a big signal differential like they should in normal vision.

[@Rukushin]

An undergrad but you write gigantic blocks of text? Turn large comments into paragraphs. It's annoying trying to read large blocks of text, make it easier to read.

[@transcyberism1459]

@@Rukushin if you don't want to read what I have written you're free not to. this is a KZbin comment section, not a thesis defense, cool it

[@angelacorey5699]

I questioned these when I saw the reactions to the balloons. I immediately wondered how they could name the colors correctly if they'd never seen them before. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.

[@lastfm4477]

That was my first thought too (as a deutan sufferer). If it was true, I'd be asking the person beside me wth color is that?! I've never seen that before.

[@scottyslearningcorner6080]

I think that these glasses don't work. But if you had color blindness like my kind you know the names of colors. I think it gives the appearance of working by allowing people to distinguish things better. Like purple is nonexistant to me, so if I saw something different than blue as described i'd be like oh that's purple/

[@IQzminus2]

What’s the referred to as stage 2 colourblindness in the video, and deuteranopia specifically. Then there would only be two balloons where they could possibly say the colour of it. If they like the glass manufacturers heavily implies would get normal colour vision for the glasses. Then the red, green, purple and orange ballon would look like something they never seen anything even the slightest like before. Just completely new and different. Or have any reference what the name of the colour it was supposed to be called.

[@joshuapatrick682]

As a hearing healthcare professional for over a decade this is fascinating. Hearing Aids are just programmable personal amplifiers that cannot directly fix auditory processing issues. It can enhance the signal that reaches the auditory processing center of the brain but it cannot make the brain more capable of interpreting and contextualizing the signal received. That requires a whole other treatment approach.

[@Tata83102]

My cousin is deaf and I had thought she could hear perfectly with the cochlear implants but nope. My aunt used to have something that could make us hear what she heard and she said it sounds more robotic. When my cousin sings she’s never in tune 😂🩷 and she’ll say how she wonders how thjngs like a heart beat sounds. It’s crazy to think about

[@KarstenJohansson]

Really? I use hearing aids. They are more accurate than just an amplifier, not only are they appropriately equalized to bring hearing up to something nearly normal, through processing they follow speech across the stereo plane. And they also suppress background noise. Are you selling modern hearing aids, or those ancient ones that look like 60's pocket radios? Incidentally, something you will be able to relate to is that the -omaly colour blindness names are pretty much akin to "hard of hearing" where the -opathy names are outright unable to see certain colour ranges. This is common in profound hearing loss, where some frequencies can be heard, but some ranges are nearly gone. I have tritanopathy. You can't "amplify" blue or yellow to make them stand out. But if I was tritanomalous, then you could, at least to allow differentiation.

[@anteshell]

@@KarstenJohansson Read what Joshua wrote a couple of times again. They said exactly the same thing as you: "It can ENHANCE the signal", which is precisely what EQ and noise suppression is. Despite you both talking about the same thing and fully agree with each other, you still write like you are arguing against them. Makes no sense. But afterall, Joshua also told about brain's ability to process and interpret the received signal, which is apparently something you have some problems on.

[@KarstenJohansson]

@@anteshell You must be having a bad day lol.

[@anteshell]

@@KarstenJohansson How so? I was merely expressing my disapproval of trying to confidently argue things you do not understand. Please, tell me more how that tells anything about my day?

[@Solemn_Kaizoku]

This is sad. I wish I could say I was surprised about this level of corruption in the medical field. Thank you for your diligent work in uncovering the truth! New sub.

[@neodonkey]

New sub here too. It makes you realize it goes on in many fields regularly. I'm a layperson in the field of Pharmacy and I once had to correct a medical student on the subject of enantiomers, I found it a bit disturbing that someone close to getting a doctorate had failed to understand their teaching in something I had learned with little difficulty as a hobby. To be fair she took it well and thanked me for the correction. Conversely I remember someone saying there ought to be a word for that feeling when having listened for years to someone you respect on topics you're not well versed in they talk about something you're a subject matter expert in and get it dead wrong and it changes your entire perception of that person and makes you wonder what else they might have been dead wrong about.

[@MorningNapalm]

In spite of being frustrated with Knoblauch for being on the wrong side of this, I still have to feel a bit sorry for him, he is clearly deeply conflicted and understands and admits that the company is lying about the results, and feels very bad about the whole thing, while trying to find a non-existent middle position.

[@kathorsees]

Honestly, I find the video author is oversimplifying things and clearly looking for a scandal and fame. He's still doing a good thing by providing more precise information on what the glasses can and cannot do and by scrutinizing the "miraculous cure" narrative. However, he is clearly trying very hard to frame Knoblauch and others in the worst possible light, and present the whole thing as an unambiguous scam when it's actually a complicated issue. There are colorblind people who like and use these products. Knoblauch did publish the negative comments from his study, which is how you found them, so accusing him of somehow "hiding" them is ridiculous and disingenuous. Calling a reporter an "idiot" and repeatedly making fun of him for having an emotional reaction to being able to pass a colorblind test for the first time in his life is just cruel. The team even did a followup, where the reporter said he was having doubts about the efficacy of the glasses - but the author of the video framed this as another "epic fail" and focused on framing the poor local eye doc instead. Speaking of which - the guy talked to you despite your clearly hostile tone AND gave you permission to publish his words, and you accuse him of "refusing to take accountability"? My dude, he literally says "publish whatever you want" - if that's not standing behind your words, I don't know what is.

[@thelastdankbender4353]

@kathorsees Impressive. You've licked the floor these parasitic scammers walk on so clean, I can see myself in the reflection. If only that were true for you as well, but I guess bloodsuckers can't reflect.

[@fsdfgwe]

@@kathorsees oh these poor scammers :((

[@kathorsees]

@@fsdfgwe Which scammers was I talking about? The guy Knoblauch, who doesn't get anything out of this whole situation other than bad press? Did you watch the video and read his letter? MegaLag shows that he objects to the false advertising and doesn't get a dime from the company misusing his research and ignoring his advice. The local doctor, who made an educated guess in an unscripted interview that he didn't get paid for? How is he profiting from the situation, or misleading you, or scamming anyone? The viral "I can see colors now!" trend is cancer, the false advertising is abysmal and wrong. But that doesn't mean that anyone and everyone who a KZbinr happens to mention in a video is automatically a scammer.

[@MrDasfried]

What are going about. Knoblauch has/had share in the Company.... Or did i get that wrong? So He did not Profite from thqe false addvertisment? Copium seems to be really string with you

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Even for me who hasn't learned about color blindness in this depth before, the idea of fixing different color blindness types with one and the same glasses is unbelievable. And to restore vision of one's completely missing color, by fixing the incoming light rather then the vision itself, is a claim of outright magic.

[@irrelevant_noob]

But... it's not magic, it's *_physics_* ... The video _shows_ you how they work: 15:09, decreasing the perception of certain wavelengths tweaks the intensity of signals received by the cones, shifting some ratios and allowing for a different perception of the same scene. Sure, this can not work for some of the many types of CVD (shown at 6:05), but it DOES have the possibility to work on others. (Although, i agree the marketing statements were blown way out of the park, and this video was very informative on the multiple aspects of the topic.)

[@stoferb876]

@@irrelevant_noob Problem is that it cannot work fully for any type, because it needs to increase for example the green signal for certain colors while decreasing it for others at the same time. No mere light filter can do this, you need very sophisticated computer software and then you might be able to show computer screen pictures corrected for some types of colour-blindness.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

100 years ago, people thought restoring hearing or vision would be magic, but now things like cochelear implants exist and corrective lasik for poor vision. To have corrective lenses for colorblindness would take years of study and research. When you go to the eye RX, they run a gamit of tests to see whats wrong with your vision and the best course of action to treat it. Enchroma is like throwing a pair of glasses at a near sighted person without knowing the extent of their nearsightedness and calling it a day.

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@stoferb876 why does it "need to" increase the green signal for certain colors tho?

[@stoferb876]

@@irrelevant_noob Take the example of the OP. Reddish colors triggers too much green activation while those towards the blue get too little. That's how it works if the peak sensitivity for the green receptors are closer to red than it "should" be.

[@ilahipearson4408]

I tried a pair of these glasses as a kid. I was able to pick out that a few things were green that I couldn't pick out before. Still, I knew that it was just a difference in contrast (something that I've since used to cheat tests). My mom treated it like a miracle anyway. I consider this to be on the level of the essential oil treatment for asthma. It seems good but makes things worse.

[@tastyfanpop]

Can you talk more about the essential oils that claim to treat asthma and why you think it's not true. I'd love to know more about it

[@ilahipearson4408]

@tastyfanpop When I was little my mom would occasionally take me to parties. This one lady gave my mom this spray (eucalyptus or something) for me to try when I was having breathing problems. It worked for like 2 mins (enough to convince everyone it worked) and then my breathing got a lot worse. Not a fun day to forget my inhaler.

[@mr_confuse]

@@tastyfanpop I have never heard the term "essential oils" and am honestly too lazy to look that up, so I base my statement of what the OP commented. The eucalyptus spray, which I have tried a few variations of. So basically, with asthma you start to have difficulties breathing as your airway gets smaller. All it did for me was irritate them, thus only increasing my breathing problems. A massive waste of money if you ask me.

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

​​@@tastyfanpopAdding extra shit to the air to make you breathe better shouldn't need an explanation. Essential Oils are just scented oil, adding lots of particles doesn't make air easier to breathe, but it could make it more pleasant if you like the smell.

[@Cogmania]

glad the strike is gone, and this amazing video is back up!!

[@zdog90210]

Any scientist worth their salt would LOVE to talk about their science, you can't get them to stop! If they don't want to talk that's highly suspect

[@CyanideCarrot]

That interview with the doctor from the news story brought back a memory of one of the best quotes I heard from a journalism professor: "You can't always get the answers you want, but you can make them look stupid in the process and that's good enough"

[@darkred1686]

Oh my gosh, as someone with deuteranomoly color blindness (or color vision deficiency), I've never heard such an apt description of what it is, not even from my optometrist. I'm going to refer people to the first few minutes of this video whenever someone asks me how I'm colorblind if I can still differentiate between red and green. Thank you very much!

[@andrewvirtue5048]

Are you a man? If so, Have you had your mother tested for tetrachromacy? It's pretty common for tetrachromats (can only be women) to have color blind sons.

[@corneliuscrewe8165]

My grandfather had monochromacy , and I inherited much less severe red/green color blindness. I saw these videos of people seeing colors with these glasses, and more than once thought to myself, how do they know what a color is if they haven’t seen it?

[@PureKNFDrake]

My family got me these glasses and i felt compelled to tell them they worked. Things do look different but I'm certain I'm not seeing anything worth crying over. I think you 100% nailed it in the conclusion. Thank you!

[@kagitsune]

Damn. That's probably the case in a bunch of those "first time" videos too.

[@juliavixen176]

It is common when doing black and white photography to use red or yellow filters with panchromatic black and white film emulsions. You may be wondering: why use a color filter for black and white? And the reason is that it improves contrast and sharpness (especially for distant objects in landscape photography. The atmosphere scatters blue light, making everything hazy). Place three objects next to each other that are colored red, yellow and green, with about the same amount of surface brightness, and they will come out looking mostly the same shade of gray on black and white film. But if you put a red filter on your camera, the black and white photo will now show the red object as very bright gray, and the green object as very dark gray. Anyway, this same trick works with the human eye... you can wear red sunglasses and suddenly anything that is brightest in green will be significantly darker. So... a cool trick you can do, which might drive some people crazy but I used to do this all the time myself, is to make a pair of glasses with a different filter in the left lens and the right lens. Now your brain will *IMMEDIATELY* see any object in front of you that is emitting the specific type of light that you are filtering for. A few years ago, I had a bespoke pair of polarized glasses made with the left and right lenses deliberately set 90° opposed to each other. While wearing them I gained the bionic superpower of instantly recognizing any and all polarized light... so I could always tell which direction is north by looking at the sky in the daytime... Every glass window on every building... even the slightest bit of water anywhere on the ground, etc. (Also LCD televisions) Anyway, I speculate that wearing a single red filter over one eye would make it possible to distinguish green.

[@cameron7374]

Screw anti-colorblindness glasses, I want the polarized light superglasses now!

[@00coolman1]

I see in black and white after getting zapped in 2018 on a commercial circuit due to a lady flipping a breaker while I was downline. I could have died, but I got off with only some brain damage affecting the way my brain processes color.

[@kaushalsuvarna5156]

Interesting

[@draketurtle4169]

@@00coolman1interesting

[@IsisMarquesDesign]

Hi Julia, can you please explain how could you find north with the glasses? You can have these made in any optics store? Thank you

[@mkjirak]

After the last video, I found a pair for resale cheap on ebay and my husband and I played around with them a bit. He's colorblind, I'm not. He found that all they did was washed out the blues and didn't really do much else. I've actually adopted them as my daytime driving glasses because I think by washing out the blues, they give me more of a sense of depth. Overall, they don't work as intended, but they make decent sunglasses.

[@charlesclark3840]

So you have blue-blocker sunglasses sold as a color vision aid. I also like blue-blocker type sunglasses for driving, but the certainly don't let me see colors correctly. They give great contrast, but often I think a nice blue sky is overcast through them. :)

[@donquixote8462]

The concept he's talking about at 4:15 is definitely legitimate. It's used in audio engineering and it's incredibly powerful for the perception of the frequencies on either side of where you make a cut. By cutting out the volume in a narrow range, you can clearly hear the sounds around it. If you were to hear it in real time you would be amazed at how powerful the effect is. I always explain it as if you're putting a thick black line at the edge of an object in the picture. You've deleted what was there, but what is on either side of it is far more clear. The only problem is that in the case of audio engineering, you have to find a very specific frequency and it's totally dependent on what is happening in the music. In the case of the glasses, it's not dialed in to your specific spikes in frequency, so it pretty much won't work for most people.

[@awsomebot1]

What you're describing is analogous to 3:06, not 4:15. Latter timestamp is unscientific BS and not true for audio either. It would be like if an older person regained the ability to hear high frequency sounds by muting certain wavelengths which magically shifts his hearing range.

[@psydemekum]

Im not colourblind in any way but I saw the viral videos back then. I spent hours diving deep into research about them because I just couldn't shake off the uncertainty. Was it real or just another scam? This question haunted me for years. But now, thanks to this video, I finally have my answers. Huge thanks for shedding light on this! 🙌"

[@berndbroot587]

Yes ;) But on the otherhand i know some people who wear some of these glasses, because they like the optic and in some conditions it can help to differ some colors. (As stated in the video you lose the ability to differ some other colors, so it depends what you personaly like to differ better ^^) But it is very good to clarify that, so people can inform if these 300€/$ are worth to buy colored sunglasses. I mean i have normal color vision but astigmatism, so normal sunglasses are even expansive for me too. But i have also some colored one, because i like the look. So it is absolut legit to buy these, that is not worked out in the vid. sry for my english, not my mother language ^^

[@Monitice]

@@berndbroot587 The gaslight is so real, it is definitely not worth buying these glasses when you could get the same thing for 15 dollars bro.

[@billybob4274]

I'm in the vein of "when in doubt, assume a scam". Sad take on things, but that's what we live in now, from Theranos to these glasses.

[@Querxes]

I heard about Color Blind Glasses a while ago and simply assumed they worked based on the reactions of people online. Thanks for making this!

[@jaredpearson7885]

I love mine.

[@Woynich]

Have you tried comparing their effectiveness to magenta cellophane?

[@BlindMango]

I’m so sick and tired of “specialists” basically having one job and being completely clueless at it, as I get older I’m horrified at how much it actually happens

[@guyanomaly]

To be fair, 2 of the 3 specialists interviewed here were not clueless lol

[@patrickwienhoft7987]

American local TV is utter garbage. All these channels do is repost some feel-good stories from social media. How the fuck are people actively wasting their time watching this is beyond me...

[@tigeruppercut2000]

Think Hunter Biden haha

[@DonMega888]

My absolute favorite is in court cases where the defense and prosecution will both bring in an "expert" and they will come to complete opposite conclusions. That's when you realize how fast ethics go out the door when money is involved.

[@DonMega888]

​@@tigeruppercut2000hey look another cult member

[@tracydegroat6345]

My father was dying from cancer and heart failure.... Before he went into hospice, he was well enough to go home to Jamaica once last time. I found out about theses glasses just before his trip but I wasn't able to get them before he left for Christmas. The guilt I have always felt that I didn't get them for him, to be able to see his beautiful colorful island as it was for on on his last trip there. I'm disgusted but I'm grateful for the gift of finding this video. Thank you and I'm a new subscriber!

[@sm5574]

"It's so green. I've never seen this before." I get the overwhelming emotion of such a moment, but stop and think for a moment: If you've never seen green before, how do you know that's what you're seeing now? This sadly proves the cruel emotional exploitation being used to sell the product (or in the media's case, selling ads).

[@Spyre_aint_it]

I'm colorblind myself and I'm so glad I did not buy these.

[@i_just_did_your_mom_LoL]

I find it ironic that the commenter below you has a rainbow profile picture

[@croneryveit9070]

I haven't seen the video yet, but as a colourblind person these were gifted to me and they definitely help in certain situations! Hope he doesn't say they're a 100% scam because my own experience is enough to prove to me that they are not. Let's see. 30 and 50 % Protanopia in both eyes.

[@MartinToms]

@@croneryveit9070 The issue isn't that they don't work. The issue is that they do something else than they claim. They can for sure help you or make the world look better and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that or you, but they do it through other means than they advertise and back up with their studies and marketing. It's like... imagine someone offered you cure for cancer, but it was just a painkiller that makes all the symptoms go away. And that's where the ethics problem is. You can't advertise something as one thing and deliver another.

[@LobsterLadyyyy]

@@croneryveit9070They are 100% a scam, but they aren’t products that do nothing. They’re products that don’t do what is advertised- that’s what a scam is. I’m glad you’ve found them helpful, though!

[@illuminatedtiger]

Was tempted so many times, entered my details on their site. Almost clicked buy. So happy I never did.

[@kurdtcoben]

28:47 Oh, how ironic that the company called Enchroma can't seem to figure out how to properly chroma-key a videofeed...

[@garnetblack5544]

It's fascinating watching this review. For context, I work in optical, and am working towards getting certified as an optician. I also happen to be photosensitive, certain LEDs and flourescent lights cause me migraines. Because of this, I wear tinted lenses designed for mitigating this issue (after years of skepticism whether they'd actually help). The notable thing to me here, is the tint. FL-41 lenses (one of the migraine tints available) are available in varying shades of rose or pink, depending on where you get them. I almost have to wonder if the idea for these colour blind glasses came from migraine glasses or vice versa, as some of the demos I've tried have looked very similar to the lenses you've shown here.

[@keiz_]

I had professor around 6 years ago who did videography, and was colorblind. I remember talking with him about these, and he said he tried them out, and they did nothing, and said even made color grading even harder.

[@ryanharris3072]

Thank you for making this video. My father in law is colorblind and also a photographer so I thought these glasses would be a great way for him to see his work in a new way. Was literally going to order them this week but I’m getting him photography gear instead now.

[@TDizzyTheG]

Thank you so much, I payed 250$ for glasses with a red tint and was devastated for months because of it! I hope this video reaches the ones that are thinking about getting them before they’re curiosity sets in and it’s too late

[@XantheFIN]

Ugh! I didn't know they sold so high prices (maybe was on videos but i missed).

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@XantheFIN at 16:28 he briefly mentioned that the glasses can get as high as $300.

[@XantheFIN]

@@irrelevant_noob My bad. Thanks for the showing.

[@alexdelanie3655]

$250! That's my rent for a year!! I'm so sorry

[@rustyshackelford3371]

​@@alexdelanie3655Bro, where u living?

[@JeffRevell]

As a colorblind photographer who worked in scientific imaging, I was well aware of the effect of color filtration on the visual spectrum. There are certain filters that can enhance parts of the spectrum, block specific wavelengths, or even block the entire spectrum while only letting in a specific wavelength. I would never have purchased these glasses for myself but my wife bought me a pair as she had seen all the hype and was hopeful that they would be beneficial to me. My reaction was similar to yours. Specifically, they did not allow me to see colors that were previously not visible to me, because that's really not even a thing. We already see the spectrum. What they did do however was create enhanced contrast or boost certain colors and mute the vibrancy of others. Things like green road signs look much darker and bolder than they once did but blue and purple are still pretty much the same color to me. The one thing that really blew my mind was trying to watch TV with them. It's like a technical nightmare on my screen. It totally puts things into an ultra-vibrant and distorted color space. I do occasionally wear them as regular sunglasses that are able to add some enhanced contrast to the world but they don't make my rainbows any better than before. Great work on exposing the predatory marketing that preys on the hopeful for some semblance of normality in a colorful world.

[@claireclearwater-gs9zc]

For years, ever since I learned how human photoreceptors work, I was baffled by the existence of colour blindness curing glasses. My best guess (which seems to match what your video concluded) was that it changed colour contrast and how bright vs dark certain colours are seen as, but I had no idea how this translated to seeing colours. It made no sense, but people seemed so divided on them that it became a smile and nod topic for me. Now, I have a great video I can point people to.

[@unvergebeneid]

And since everyone should've learned this in highschool, it's kind of baffling how many people still believe in these snake oil-coated glasses.

[@nutbastard]

Yeah, the premise is that colorblind people have trouble distinguishing certain colors from others, and the hokey solution is to make distinguishing the difference easier, which a magenta filter will do in a lot of cases. What it won't do is allow you to actually see the colors you're distinguishing. I'd be interested to see a normal sighted person, while wearing these glasses, attempt to correctly identify all of the wires in, say, a 20 conductor cable, where you have schemes like "blue with a yellow stripe" and "purple with a white stripe. I'd reckon that the only thing these glasses have to do with colorblindness is effectively inducing colorblindness in normally sighted people.

[@landsgevaer]

@@unvergebeneid To be fair, there is more than what you learn in highschool. For instance, there are materials that actually change the wavelengths of light. And, as the video shows, filters can make some color combos easier to distinguish (at the cost of others). Suffice it to say that that doesn't mean these glasses work. But just discarding it because highschool physics or biology can't explain it is a bit simplistic.

[@unvergebeneid]

@@landsgevaer if they imply that you can see new colors then yes, highschool biology is more than enough to make you discard this. If there are glasses that make a colorblind person grow a third type of receptor, then why aren't there glasses that make a normally sighted person see entirely new colors by making them grow a fourth, fifth and sixth type of cone cell? Those would be a hit. Pretty sure we would've heard about that. There's nothing special about three color receptors. Some animals have more, some fewer. As I believe they do teach you in highschool.

[@landsgevaer]

@@unvergebeneid Depends on what you mean by "see a new color". For instance, human vision normally does not span IR or UV, as opposed to e.g. bees. But if you had a device that changes the wavelength one could make those detectable. It wouldn't be a new percept (no different qualia, if you like), it would just be mapped into the range you can see. But that would still make it visible and distinguishable as a color, other people would not see it without that device, and your brain would learn to interpret it. Just for clarity, that is not what these glasses do, and making one color visible must come at the cost of other colors becoming less distinguishable etc etc.

[@kyetes.866]

This is excellent investigative journalism from an independent source, I’m not sure whether you have a traditional journalism background but you’ve done a lot better than MSM sources with loads more resources and experience at their disposal. Definitely looking forward to what you have in store for the future.

[@xxByoGxx]

I love this mini-series. You should also look into the scam of deep blue/UV light-blocking glasses for monitors (the transparent ones, not the yellowish ones).

[@TheBloodfire]

Would you care to elaborate on that? i have a pair of prescription glasses (clear and transparent) that has a bluelight blocking coating on them. But what exactly is the scam? Or are you saying that all clear transparent glasses do nothing for the blocking of Bluelight from monitors?

[@gabrielmassicotte-rochon9543]

There is a lot to unpack but the whole blue light is a bit of a scam, there is like 10 000 times more blue light coming out of the sun and day light than a screen... The eyes get tired just because you are watching something close to you and concentrate too much. You simply have to look away for a while or take a walk outside of your screen and don't need any of the filters. It's dumb and a scam because it doesn't do anything to correct no problem whatsoever.

[@halsoy]

​​​@@TheBloodfirepart of blocking light means the light doesn't get absorbed (turned into heat basically) or pass through, but reflected. Unless the glasses have some tint to them that would suggest some blue light bounces back, chances are the amount is too small to have any effect at all or is non-existent. The alternative is that the light turns to heat or gets re-emitted as a different wavelength. But the latter option would again tint the light you see, shifting colors around somewhat.

[@redestroyer7994]

UV blocking glasses? Man, only if the Bored Ape people used them!

[@redestroyer7994]

actually i may have gone a bit too far

[@cimadev]

4:06 I think he is saying the color signal to the receptors is pushed apart (by filtering the overlap zone), thus approximating the signal an unaffected eye would get from the full spectrum. I don't think he is suggesting the glasses change what frequencies get picked up by the reflector. (For the record: I don't think enchroma doesn't do anything wrong, I really don't. I just think that specitic point was misrepresented.)

[@CapsAdmin]

I also want to mention that if you've never seen true colors before and you put these glasses on for the first time, it's reasonable to think that this new experience is the real deal as you have nothing to compare it to. It might take a while to understand that all that's happening is just shifting and subtracting the colors you are already familiar with.

[@adrianaldridge2267]

Something else I've thought about with these glasses is that, color is a very personal experience. There is no real way to describe what you see when you see a color, when I see red I can have no conformation between me and the people around me that red is even the same thing to us. But because we can both identify red and call it red, its' communication. When color blind people wear these glasses they may see that uptick in brightness/contrast and now be able to differentiate these colors that before looked the same, and everyone around them is going "oh my god can you see it? thats red!!" so they think "oh okay THIS is what red is i guess, yeah i can see red." when they really arent experiencing red in the way We experience it. It's honestly a genius scam preying on the way we cannot truly describe or define colors or how we perceive them.

[@jonathanbost8427]

I'm glad Dr. Knoblauch responded to you, and I resonate with his statement about his two colleagues with anomalous CVD who wear the glasses because they like how things look. I have pretty severe protanomaly (some tests say I have protanopia, but I find that doubtful) and I was gifted EnChroma glasses (probably the nicest out of all the options, though way too expensive) and I wear them when I'm outside because they make things look prettier and help me distinguish some colors better. I recognized pretty quickly that it wasn't more "accurate," but it certainly is nicer. If they marketed them better and were less expensive, I'd be completely fine with them. (I.e. marketing them as an "aid" for people with CVD to better distinguish colors.) I don't see the red tint at all with the glasses, probably because my red cones are compromised, not green, as in your case.

[@darkred1686]

I agree, I think there is a legit market for these, but they should really drop the outlandish claims of seeing new colors.

[@night1952]

Because they're just cheap tinted sunglasses, can't jack up the price without liying.

[@SianaGearz]

@@darkred1686 With honest marketing they'd hardly be able to charge more than $40 for plano and $150 prescription. Also people not being able to afford them is not a bug, it's a feature, because that kept people guessing rather than being certain they don't do what they claim to. Imagine if you could just ask around and among your friends find someone who'd let you try them on? As such the business model is fundamentally predatory and deceptive. As a honest business, they'd make ends meet but they wouldn't be rolling in the dough.

[@slimbob7553]

It's absolutely insane how long they've kept up this charade. Good work, dude.

[@BaronDean]

The reason it blew up so much was because of the number of people that don't understand color blindness, when I tried explaining to people I know how they wouldn't work I was told I didn't understand the science. I have tritanopia, I don't need to understand what ever story they're selling to know that no external implement will grant me the distinction between blue and green.

[@bpark10001]

You DON'T understand the science. If you truly have tritanOPIA the glasses will not work. Enchroma explains this, that the glasses will not work for -OPIA forms of colorblindness. About 25% of colorblind people have the OPIA form. That's why Enchroma is willing to offer refund for return.

[@rotkappchen9157]

I already commented in the first part but I will do it again so YT pushes your video. Me, as an bachelor professional optometrist, I was so in rage every time I saw a post or a video of these glasses. And now I am so so grateful that someone tries to fight against that scam. AND your explanations in the beginning were awesome and on point. Very well done.

[@bpark10001]

As a professional, DON'T base recommendations to your patients from KZbin videos, either this one or others. Make recommendations from experiences you witness YOURSELF, unbiased by social media. Find colorblind patients you have & see what their reactions are. THEN you will have the credibility to recommend for/against the technology.

[@CharlieMcNugets]

10:17 You said the paper was suddenly made free without a pay wall. But you arleady paid for it, so why would there be a pay wall? Did you use Chrome incognito mode and try viewing the page? If you did and it was free, then you were correct. But if it were blocked, you failed to realize that these sites track your payment and just keep access enabled to the document.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

I’ve seen on one of those “emotional” videos a tiny disclaimer about how the glasses “might not work immediately”, that it could take a bit of “time”. I find this scam totally appalling and I’m so glad that you made this video. Thanks. P.s that hang up from the eye specialist was awesome. I also especially appreciated that he gave permission for you to say/show/include whatever you wanted - thanks Doc 👍🏽

[@katjamming]

I'm not colorblind and I've never tried these glasses, but I am a cosplayer who's worn red glasses all day and I can pretty much confirm wearing a color filter over your eyes definitely changes the way you see color, but not in a particularly good way

[@Bamdeidz]

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