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Skeptoid #902: Focusing in on Eye Exercises

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Can you really make your eyesight better with a simple series of eye movements and exercises?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine having perfect vision with no corrective lenses and no surgery either.

0:09.6

The price, only a few minutes a day, doing some simple eye movements, and perhaps a supplement

0:15.4

pill or two.

0:17.2

This is the promise made by those who sell eye exercises to cure your vision problems.

0:22.5

Today, we're going to find out if it's science or pseudoscience.

0:27.8

Eye exercises are coming up right now on Skeptoid.

0:37.9

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0:44.5

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0:50.5

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0:52.9

One strange thing searches the nation's news archives for stories that the reporter

0:57.5

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1:03.7

The podcast unfolds regional tales of the mysterious, the paranormal, the unexplained,

1:10.0

and the delightfully weird.

1:12.2

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1:18.7

Or how about the flurry of strange calls a police chief received about an otherworldly

1:23.8

sighting of a metal man running down the rural roads outside of town?

1:29.1

One listener described the show as like Ripley's Believe It or Not in podcast form.

1:34.1

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1:38.3

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1:41.8

You'll be binging their entire podcast feed before you know it.

1:45.6

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1:47.2

In the woods of Maine, rumors of an uncatchable, immortal beast have circulated for well over

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