Hi Rena- Thanks for the information. You're making us feel very good about keeping this site going, since it seems that there's so much odd misinformation circulating around out there. Somebody has to help counter it.
So again- think about your eyes. Why would they care what the source of the light is, so long as it gets to them? You can see light in the right wavelength range whether it started in the thing you're seeing or started somewhere else and then bounced off the thing you're seeing. If those various sources really said otherwise, they're just plain wrong.
Mike W.
p.s. If you have a way of sending any printed or online source of that misinformation to us, we'd be pleased to feature it in our "We Call Baloney" section.
p.p.s. Aha, here's one such source of baloney, one of the usual suspects:
(published on 05/15/2011)