In article ,
George E. Cawthon wrote in part:

Not in the sense that you mean. The flicker is
highly annoying and irritating to some people;
others never notice the flicker. Many
fluorescents put out a band of green and that can
have adverse physiological effects. So the answer
is it depends on the individual and it depends on
the light spectrum of the bulbs.

What physiological effects are to be blamed on that green band?

I never heard of any!

- Don Klipstein )