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'''Jake Steiner''' is the pseudonymous name<ref>https://endmyopia.org/copyright-notice/ Quote: “Legal Name Use: Jake Steiner is a pseudonym.”</ref> of the creator of [[EndMyopia]]. In his own words he is a self styled retired stock trader who made a website to help others regain their 20/20 eyesight, after having completely reversed his 5 [[diopter]] myopia.<ref>Jake Steiner | [[File:Jake_Twitter.png|thumb|Jake's old Twitter account]] | ||
'''Jake Steiner''' is the pseudonymous name<ref>https://endmyopia.org/copyright-notice/ Quote: “Legal Name Use: Jake Steiner is a pseudonym.”</ref> of the creator of [[EndMyopia]]. In his own words he is a self styled retired stock trader who made a website to help others regain their 20/20 eyesight, after having completely reversed his 5 [[diopter]] myopia.<ref name="em-jake">EndMyopia, About: Jake Steiner, https://endmyopia.org/about-us/ (Archived version: https://archive.md/dKBSV)</ref> | |||
You [[Explainer:Why_you_shouldn%27t_support_Jake_Steiner|shouldn't support him]]. | You [[Explainer:Why_you_shouldn%27t_support_Jake_Steiner|shouldn't support him]]. | ||
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==Drama== | ==Drama== | ||
{{Quote|text=“His posts are around 40% useful information and 60% ramble, awkwardly conspiratorial "let's you and me stick it to the man, eh?", and self-aggrandizement. He calls himself a guru unironically and has a pet collective noun for his readers. He has a financial incentive to make the blog archives hard to parse. Also, the blog archives are hard to parse. | |||
He has also been making a concerted effort to move the community's conversations into forums which are not publicly accessible, and he enforces strong groupthink within those private groups. He comes across as a cult leader who is trying to keep his flock from straying. I honestly have no idea whether it's malicious '''but it is hugely damaging to the mainstream uptake of these ideas.'''”|sign=Andrew Backhouse|source=''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer''<ref>Andrew Backhouse, ''Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia: A Human-Friendly Primer'', https://www.losetheglasses.org/</ref>}} | |||
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==Quotes== | |||
{{Quote|text=“I make a fascinating, objectively massive, almost completely embarrassing amount of financial gains by betting that you ''won’t'' take my advice here.”|sign=Jake Steiner<ref>https://courses.endmyopia.org/backto20-20-program-2022-e-mail-only-discount/, https://archive.is/UqcJm</ref>}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||