Expert misquoted on cure for myopia
ON SUNDAY, Wang Ningli, a senior ophthalmologist from Beijing Tongren Hospital, China's most renowned ophthalmic hospital, said that "eye protection exercises are useful if you do them correctly", which aroused hot discussions online. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:
Hours after Wang uttered the words, the message has been forwarded on Sina weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter, with headlines such as "Eye protection exercises prevent myopia" or "Eye protection exercises slow myopia". Wang's words are clear, but some reports quoting his words are rather misleading.
Among professional ophthalmologists, there has long been a conclusion that eye protection exercises alone cannot prevent myopia, and the doctors have repeated that in one speech after another.
