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> In the case of blue pumped LEDs he's referring to bulbs that use a short wavelength LED in combination with phosphor that absorbs the light and reemits it at lower, and broader, wavelengths.

This was part of my suspicion, but I'm not familiar enough to know if that was correct.

> I get the impression the writer's opinions are extremely niche.

I'll be the first to say "citation needed" to what I'm about to say, but I feel like we went through a cycle of "the science is clear: blue light is bad for sleep!" to "actually a lot of that was not good science", so I'm unclear of where the consensus actually is (if I ignore this article).




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