Note that some original material is included in the answers to these objections and questions that isn't available, or isn't yet published anywhere else. Some answers are lengthy.

Frequently Raised Objections:

1. Aren't you trying to explain too much here?

2. Wouldn't we know by now?

3. Why aren't there acute illnesses caused by using artificial lights?

4. Isn't it just that the population is growing older?

5. Artificial light is just light.

6. We've been extending our days with extra light forever.

7. There were at least rare cases ... before 1800.

8. Obesity has always been a problem for people who have enough food.

9. It's the ... high-fructose corn syrup ... toxins ... pick one...

10. If I just turn out the lights more I'll lose weight magically!?

11. Aren't humans supposed to be the most adaptive of all creatures?

12. We can't change – at least not that much.

13. What can I do that's really simple?

14. The experiments and studies you cite are mostly indirect.

15. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

16. I can sleep with the lights on and it doesn't affect me.

17. But sleeping too much is supposed to be unhealthy.

18. Do I really have to keep it so darn dark at night?

19. If extra light makes me feel good, won't less make me feel awful?

20. Forget more darkness, I'm busy. I'll just take melatonin.

21. Red light is somehow okay and other light isn't!?

22. This is a white people's disease...

23. It's really the psychological pattern of using food to cope.

24. Why are you so concerned with the history, here?

25. So scientists succumb to groupthink... that's inevitable.

26. It's stress. The stress of modern living. So, we have more illness.

27. I've tried but I can't quit smoking/alcohol/drugs. Am I toast?

28. Why not call this the “melatonin hypothesis”?