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Andrew Huberman Gets Paid to Lie

Analyzing Roka Blue Blocking Sponsorship Debacle

A few weeks ago Andrew Huberman announced that he had partnered with the sports and eyewear company Roka. Together they’ve put out a specially branded blue-blocking glasses that are designed to help you wind down and get better sleep at night. If that sounds weird to you, you’re not alone. Over the years Huberman, who is not actually a neuroscientist but a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology, has repeatedly said that that he didn’t believe that blue blocking classes did all that much.

Was it possible that a giant financial windfall could have changed his mind on settled science?

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