I am an engineer, a researcher, and a designer.  For most of my professional career, I either planned or built or managed factories in the United States and in France.  I also made various inventions in their fields and was granted five patents for some of them, four in the U.S. and one in Mexico. 

The reason for my posting the material here on retinopathy of prematurity is that my son David was born much too early.  He had to spend his first three months in an intensive care nursery and left it brain damaged and blind, like many other preemies exposed to the same damaging environment.  His condition led me to spend much time in medical libraries to research his problems and how my wife and I could help him.  

I also took at that time a job as manager of a plant that cured special inks on printed plastic parts with ultraviolet light.  While reading up on the occupational safety requirements for that process, I learned that the strong violet and blue components of regular fluorescent light can damage an unprotected retina. 

I further found that preemies have none of the adults' protections against that damage, and that the start of the preemie-blinding epidemic coincided with the introduction of fluorescent lamps. 

Trying to alert the medical community to these easily verified facts, I ran into a stonewall of unscientific arrogance, willful ignorance, and fraudulent cover-up of these embarrassing findings.  

To document this scandalous and harmful but consistent misconduct from the leaders of a respected profession and from the officials supposed to supervise it, I accumulated a collection of the either absent or often blatantly dishonest reactions from the many distinguished doctors and experts on so-called medical ethics whom I contacted. 

You will find on this site a detailed documentation of deliberate deceptions and other gross ethics breaches in past and recent clinical studies about preemies, committed by mainstream doctors who treated babies as guinea pigs. 

See for yourself, and for one case in the authors' own words obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, how some self-serving nursery doctors rigged clinical trials to falsely deny this image-tarnishing problem, and so to continue the blinding. 

I felt like a man who has a life preserver and wants to toss it to someone he sees drowning, so I tried to interest the media in telling people about the baby- blinding dangers from the nursery lighting.  You will find some of that coverage in the TV-programs and Print media series, as well as a checklist of things you can do to protect your baby in case s/he happens to arrive early. 

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