Is Light Pollution Giving Everyone Alzheimer’s?
Despite the recent headlines, there’s no good evidence that light pollution is destroying our brains
Light pollution is a perennial issue. It’s deeply irritating to pretty much everyone at one point or another — we all need to sleep sometime — but it’s also unavoidable as long as we want to have human activity at night. If you want stuff like road safety and 24hr drive-through MacDonald’s you have to accept a certain quantity of mild irritation as well.
But according to recent headlines, light pollution isn’t just mildly annoying. It’s killing us. A recent piece of research, it seems, has shown that light pollution is potentially causing Alzheimer’s disease across the United States of America.
If true, this would be rather terrifying. The only real solution to light pollution is to get away from people, and that’s not an option for the majority of Americans who live in cities. Certainly not easily.
But fortunately for all of us, the data underlying these headlines is extremely bad. There’s no need to worry about light pollution killing you just yet.
The Study
The study in question is a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience that looked at an…
