Weibo questions whether "there is no scientific basis for eye exercises"

Recently, a weibo user "Live broadcast Shanghai(直播上海)" posted on Sina Weibo saying "Eye exercises have already crippled China's teenagers for 49 years. Teenagers have always been told to massage helpless acupuncture points. Yet China over this period rose to having the second largest number of nearsighted teenagers in the world. Up to 360 million teenagers become nearsightedness. Doing eye exercises cannot improve sight. Many students get pinkeye and eye infections due to using dirty hands to do eye exercises." That post attracted considerable attentions. Experts say that the preventive effect of eye exercises need to be further verified.

@刘帅-DL：The number of nearsighted teenagers in China might have risen to the second largest in the world, but the real reason is the college entrance examination system instead of eye exercises.

@QD-木木：Eye exercises are health care, not treatment. People who wear glasses for short-sightedness can recall the feeling after you did eye exercises, then you can tell whether it helps to ease eye strain and stress or not. Of course, this is if your hands are clean before you start to do eye exercises.

@圆妹在行动：This is an one-sided opinion as massaging relevant acupuncture points can relieve eye strain and stress. However, current students have more pressure than before, and there are many factors impacts on people's eyes, such as electrical products, inappropriate habits, diet, and inheritance, all of those factors are likely to lead to eye strain and even nearsightedness that cannot be addressed by eye exercises.

@众海岛：To evaluate whether eye exercises work or not is a very professional and troublesome thing. You have not provided enough scientific evidence before you came to a conclusion, which is a very unscientific act. You have made it clear you don't like eye exercises, but your evidence is not persuasive. How can the public believe your criticisms of others if you don't act scientifically yourself?