Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits (arstechnica.com) 301
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: So there's a British woman who's been in the news recently for diagnosing herself with a sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation. She sleeps in a $500 EMF-blocking sack and has reportedly stayed in the sack, from time to time, for 30-hour stretches. The woman -- 70-year-old Rosi Gladwell of Totnes, Devon -- helps lead a small advocacy group on the issue of EMF-related health issues, and she even got the mayor of the Spanish village where she now lives to look into ways to limit Wi-Fi access for residents. She fears that the introduction of 5G mobile networks will kill her. Now seems like a good time to remind readers that there is no evidence to support the idea of "electromagnetic hypersensitivity." The World Health Organization calls it "idiopathic environmental intolerance with attribution to electromagnetic fields," or IEI-EMF.
Since diagnosing herself years ago, Gladwell has taken to sleeping in a sack woven with silver and copper and wraps herself in a protective sheet, according to several British news outlets. (You can find similar on Amazon.) She says that exposures to Wi-Fi and other EMF make her weak, short of breath, and give her pins-and-needle feelings in her face. She spends much of her time in a remote Spanish vacation home where her exposure to EMF is reduced. Still, Gladwell is holding firm in her thinking. Two years ago, she even reportedly got the mayor of the Spanish village Polopos to consider limiting the village's Wi-Fi access. "I am immensely impressed with our local mayor and how seriously he is taking this," Gladwell told the Olive Press at the time. "When talking about the dangers of Wi-Fi technology, he came up with the idea of limiting the hours of access in the village by putting timer switches on the routers in the school, Town Hall, and doctor's surgery." It's unclear if the town enacted the restrictions.
Since diagnosing herself years ago, Gladwell has taken to sleeping in a sack woven with silver and copper and wraps herself in a protective sheet, according to several British news outlets. (You can find similar on Amazon.) She says that exposures to Wi-Fi and other EMF make her weak, short of breath, and give her pins-and-needle feelings in her face. She spends much of her time in a remote Spanish vacation home where her exposure to EMF is reduced. Still, Gladwell is holding firm in her thinking. Two years ago, she even reportedly got the mayor of the Spanish village Polopos to consider limiting the village's Wi-Fi access. "I am immensely impressed with our local mayor and how seriously he is taking this," Gladwell told the Olive Press at the time. "When talking about the dangers of Wi-Fi technology, he came up with the idea of limiting the hours of access in the village by putting timer switches on the routers in the school, Town Hall, and doctor's surgery." It's unclear if the town enacted the restrictions.
Special facility (Score:2)
I think there are already special facilities for people with this kind of disorder - conversion disorder.
Re:Special facility (Score:4, Insightful)
Shortness of breath and pins and needles in the face.
Sounds like she might have a bad heart or early signs of emphysema. Yeah none of thats from wifi.
Re:Special facility (Score:5, Interesting)
They should run a double-blind test. Have someone toggle the wifi on and off, and have her report whether she is feeling any symptoms. Then see if there is any correlation.
Seems like a good science fair project for a middle school student.
Re: Special facility (Score:3)
I'd even say let them toggle the button and see if they can tell what is on and what is off, randomize it occasionally and tell them when it is randomized. Randomize it about 100 times. As a control, have them repeat one set with the transmitter always on and again with it always off, though you don't tell them about this part of the test.
Show them their results afterwards.
Magazine already did this (Score:5, Interesting)
There was a magazine site that actually took this a step further.
They modified a wifi router such that it could be in 4 modes:
1. Normally on
2. Fully off
3. Lights off, but broadcasting
4. Lights on, but not broadcasting.
They got a number of "EMF Sensitive people" and did a double-blind study where the router was visibly mounted to the ceiling. The test givers didn't know the router had been modified.
They found a 100% correlation between the lights and the people claiming to be EMF sensitive 0% correlation with the actual wifi signal.
Their favorite was one of the "most sensitive" immediately sticking her cellphone to her ear when leaving, talking about how she'd "aced" the test, knowing when the radio was on and wasn't.
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Re: Magazine already did this (Score:3)
100% correlation to the lights is not all that surprising. The 0% correlation is more suspect, but I'm guessing that's a science/common translation issue.
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Re:Special facility (Score:5, Interesting)
They should run a double-blind test. Have someone toggle the wifi on and off, and have her report whether she is feeling any symptoms. Then see if there is any correlation.
Seems like a good science fair project for a middle school student.
It may turn up positive. I have run into a couple of cases where people have some sensitivity to ultrasound. As a result they feel discomfort in the presence of 20-40KHz switching components which you find in most switching power supplies. They blame it on WiFi while it actually is not.
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It may turn up positive. I have run into a couple of cases where people have some sensitivity to ultrasound.
Yes, the top end of human hearing does vary from one individual to another, and I've known several people who could hear ultrasound-- apparently it's very annoying.
For that matter, I've known people who can't hear the 15.7 kHz whine from a flyback transformer misfunctioning, and happily stay in a room watching a TV that I've found it so annoying I can't be in the same room. (No longer a problem now that CRTs are obsolete, though!)
As a result they feel discomfort in the presence of 20-40KHz switching components which you find in most switching power supplies. They blame it on WiFi while it actually is not.
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Re:Special facility (Score:5, Interesting)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, especially when you want to interfere with other people's freedoms. The problem with your hypothesis is that EM fields are not a substance in the environment that any immune molecule can bind to. The field in your microwave that actually warms water is hundreds of watts over a short distance and decays with the square of distance. Most EM fields in your environment are typically such a weak force that it barely interacts with anything biological, mainly because we don't have antennas. Magnetoreception in some animals is actually a thing but no human has yet demonstrated without cheating.
If you eliminate a biological explanation then it is not "being a dick" to suggest a psychological issue. Psychological issues are a real health problem and one that can be every bit as debilitating as physical ones.
Re:Special facility (Score:4, Interesting)
"DNA will spit out all kinds of variations with bad reactions to all sorts of things"
RF is not a thing. It's a phenomenon. Things are made out of stuff. Stuff has mass and takes up space.
That's not to say that RF doesn't interact with the body, only that you cannot be allergic to it as there is no mechanism for that.
Further, this woman is a nutter, plain and simple, because if there were such a thing she would have never made it out of the womb alive. RF can get in there, too.
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RF is energy, and energy is another state of matter. Your distinctions are meaningless.
Okay smart guy, go bungee jumping from an electrical arc and let us all know how it goes. There are pretty conclusive differences between matter and energy, even if one can be converted into the other.
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Shortness of breath and pins and needles in the face.
Sounds like she might have a bad heart or early signs of emphysema. Yeah none of thats from wifi.
Copper poisoning. Sweat reacting with the copper weaving in the sack she is sleeping in and the result seeping back through skin. Totally self-inflicted too.
Re:Special facility (Score:5, Interesting)
By all accounts, psychosomatic responses are real in the sense that they cause symptoms indistinguishable from symptoms with a physical case.
To take a lead from the summary, now seems like a good time to remind the readers that there *IS* evidence to support psychosomatic symptoms resulting from the belief that there is EMF present.
Studies have shown that a person with that condition who believes a wifi router is on, independent of if it actually is on or not, will exhibit symptoms.
Likewise, if they believe the router is off, independent of if it actually is on or not, will not exhibit symptoms.
A wifi router that is transmitting but has no light causing symptoms, and a wifi router that isn't a router, just a box and an LED that causes symptoms, is indicated in the 90% range, far far above random chance.
If one wants to be indifferent to this lady, it's easy enough to do nothing.
But if one wants to help her, the only cure to her pain is to ensure she is convinced there is no wifi around her, or any other RF that she believes is RF.
The cure doesn't need to be any more physical than the cause
Re:Special facility (Score:5, Informative)
Completely correct. Friendly reminder to naysayers: psychosomatic responses cover the entirety of illness impacts, including lethal outcomes in cases like psychosomatic asthma.Illness itself is not actually real, but response is. And that response can be lethal.
And the way you treat the response is to convince the person that the cause of the illness is not there. You don't actually need to remove whatever the person thinks is causing the illness. Convincing the person that this thing is removed is sufficient.
Re:Special facility (Score:5, Interesting)
That's all correct, right down the line. Unfortunately, of late, society has taken the tack of indulging people with psychosomatic illnesses - witness "gluten free", which for people without Celiac disease, is simply nonsense. But no one is attempting to tell them that their "disease" is simply in their heads.
It goes even further than just illnesses, trivial or meritless complaints about discrimination, perceived grievances, are treated seriously, and treated like serious societal issues that demand extreme accommodation from everyone else.
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But no one is attempting to tell them that their "disease" is simply in their heads.
Why should they? It is more profitable to just sell them gluten-free ice cream, gluten-free toothpaste, etc.
The gluten-free fad is stupid, but harmless.
Re:Special facility (Score:5, Insightful)
> The gluten-free fad is stupid, but harmless.
And for the poor souls who are actually gluten-intolerant, the fad is actually hugely beneficial by bringing products to market that otherwise wouldn't exist for their small numbers.
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>> The gluten-free fad is stupid, but harmless.
> And for the poor souls who are actually gluten-intolerant, the fad is actually hugely beneficial by bringing products to market that otherwise wouldn't exist for their small numbers.
That's true enough. However, this ties in to the whole "allergy" thing, and people who walk around claiming to be allergic to stuff - when they aren't - do cause massive problems. Both immediate problems, for example, for a restaurant kitchen. And severe indirect problems
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Hey, one of those "we sell shit to gullible fools" stores recently started selling gluten-free water.
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Re: Special facility (Score:5, Insightful)
> which for people without Celiac disease, is simply nonsense.
Thatâ(TM)s a really bad example because gluten free is very useful for some people with debilitating diarrhea or other bowel problems.
Gluten free grains mostly donâ(TM)t contain fructans (some type of carbohydrate) that seem to cause trouble in people with irritable bowel syndrome. So low FODMAP Diet ( Monash University: https://www.monashfodmap.com/ [monashfodmap.com] ) suggests to avoid Gluten to see if it makes a difference.
You learn that after a few months of explosive diarrhea and still feel like a fraud when buying gluten free stuff...
Slashdot, why canâ(TM)t you just fix your cha (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot, why canâ(TM)t you just fix your character encoding. Weâ(TM)re both old but itâ(TM)s time to embrace UTF.
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Electric sensitivity and it's symptoms are definitely real, but it's mental illness and the physical symptoms are psychosomatic. The proper way to deal with this should be with treatment, not by calling them loons, ignoring them or humiliating them by proving to them that their sympt
Beeing British and living in Spain (Score:5, Insightful)
Instead of worrying about some WiFi attack, she might ask herself how she is going to stay there post Brexit.
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If she is gullible enough to believe the scare stories about wifi then she probably believed the ones about the EU too, and voted for brexit.
Re:Beeing British and living in Spain (Score:5, Informative)
If she is gullible enough to believe the scare stories about wifi then she probably believed the ones about the EU too, and voted for brexit.
Careful, you are spreading scare stories yourself there. Brexit is unlikely to seriously affect retirees living abroad. It is people wanting to work in the EU who should be concerned.
Not a scare story. British retirees in the EU currently get the same annual pension increase as pensioners living in the UK; i.e. average UK wage growth, inflation or 2.5%, whichever is highest. British pensioners living anywhere else in the world do not get any such annual pension increase.
As the Financial Times [ft.com] recently reported, the British government has so far refused to commit to continue paying this annual increase to EU resident British pensioners after Brexit; especially in the event of a no-deal Brexit. I'd say that losing a minimum 2.5% annual increase in their pensions counts as being seriously affected.
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So as soon as they leave the EU all imports are cut off? I can't imagine these markets would want a disruption in sales. How on earth did England survive before the all powerful EU came about?
Simple (Score:3)
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Instead of worrying about some WiFi attack, she might ask herself how she is going to stay there post Brexit.
Post Brexit WIFI transmissions on UK territory will have a rejuvenating effect powered by the sheer awesomeness of BREXIT that will grant al UK'ers eternal life, eternity at age 20 unless of course they leave the protective envelope of the WIFI signals in which case they will start to age and devolve into brain eating EU supporters.
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Instead of worrying about some WiFi attack, she might ask herself how she is going to stay there post Brexit.
The same way any non-EU rich person with a valid visa would?
Or is Spain going to magically not want rich people coming to stay there now?
Sleeping in a Faraday Cage... (Score:4, Funny)
At least it keeps the NSA from listening to the radios they put in your teeth.
Did she buy the cage on the internet (Score:2)
I can't even imagine how you would find this or research your condition without getting on the internet.
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What's your point? You don't need Wi-Fi to access the internet.
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Re:Did she buy the cage on the internet (Score:4, Informative)
You don't think the screen and the computer give off any RF? Might be small but it is also right next to you. The FCC regulates emissions that might jam other things not low power in close proximity to you. So the power levels on you can be similar to a distant wifi in the school down the block.
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Uhm, would somebody please replace his CRT with an LCD monitor? There, fixed most of your RF-to-the-head problems.
Better (Score:5, Funny)
NO truth in her fears. (Score:3, Insightful)
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Talk about coincidence... my daily blog today addresses the stupidity of "the great unwashed" and the outlandish propaganda that certain people are pushing out in an attempt to strike fear into the hearts of the gullible. Aardvark Daily [aardvark.co.nz].
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Re:NO truth in her fears. (Score:5, Informative)
Because we've seen whackadoodles like this claim that "wifi" and the new cellphone tower are causing them headaches and all sorts of ailments with zero proof other than the fact that the tower exists. It's gotten so bad that cell companies now have a standard playbook for these idiots.
Step 1. Install the tower.
Step 2. Wait for the neighborhood EMF weirdos to demand and get a city council meeting to discuss how the new tower is making them sick and they need it shut down PRONTO!!!
Step 3. Show up at town hall, and have documented proof available that the tower was indeed built X months ago, but has not actually been turned on yet.
Step 4. Watch whackadoodles froth on the floor, council denies motion.
Step 5. Turn on tower.
I also watched a interesting segment on CBC a few years back when these EMF sensitive types first started coming out of the woodwork. It was a middle aged woman who claimed Wifi gave her intense headaches. She was invited to talk about it and the host asked her if it was OK to demonstrate how wifi affected her. She agreed, and the host flicked a switch on a router on the table in front of them, which turned on the router. Almost immediately she started moaning and grabbing her head, so the host turned it off. She returned to normal a few seconds later and continued on with the segment. Then the host asked to confirm the issue again, got the OK and flicked the switch on again. More groaning and head grabbing. Host turns it off. Then the host informs her that they've altered the router and the switch he's flicking on the router only turns the lights on and off on the router but the radios have been on the whole time she's been sitting there. She gawped like a fish for about five seconds before standing up and storming out.
So the reason we don't believe this idea that some people are EMF sensitive is because their claims of symptoms do not line up with whether EMF is actually present or not. Show us one person who can actually sense whether the emitter is on or off accurately in a double blind experiment and maybe there will be people who take it seriously. Because we haven't seen that person yet.
Re: NO truth in her fears. (Score:5, Insightful)
>So, they demonstrated evidence for a psychosomatic disorder, which is a real medical condition.
Yep
> Then they used that as "evidence" to ignore her. That's what you're claiming?
Not sure how having her on the air on a nationally televised segment is "ignoring" someone?
> Sounds like a shitty place to live.
Canada is pretty nice, not sure why you'd think otherwise.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. She has (or maybe had by this time) a psychosomatic illness that she at the time of the interview wasn't seeking treatment for. Unless you're cool with the government forcibly committing people like that to institutions for treatment, what do you want? The fact that it was demonstrated to her in a blatant, undeniable fashion might have gotten through to her and perhaps she would then go seek treatment for the psychosomatic illness.
But coddling her and going along with her delusion isn't ever going to help her - and in fact also is a detriment to the rest of society when these people lobby enough that politicians start bowing to their delusions. Imagine if next week your city council decided to ban wifi within the city limits to appease these peoples' fears, for example.
... but fear itself (Score:5, Interesting)
She fears that the introduction of 5G mobile networks will kill her
The sad irony is that the needless anxiety itself might actually have a detrimental effect on her health - which will undoubtedly be attributed to the EMF.
Re:... but fear itself (Score:5, Funny)
Extreme Megahertz Fear?
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One can only hope.
not first or last (Score:2)
Re:not first or last (Score:5, Interesting)
There was another famous case where a tower went up and numerous people in the neighborhood immediately developed all sorts of symptoms as a result. This went on for months until finally in a very public display, the cell company showed that the tower hadn't even been hooked up to power yet.
It's all in their heads, it's been proven over and over again. But that doesn't mean they aren't suffering because of it. It's a mental illness though, and society doing normal things that just happen to trigger it aren't responsible for it. The only "fix" for it is to get them a doctor that can treat the mental problem.
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"It's all in their heads, it's been proven over and over again. But that doesn't mean they aren't suffering because of it. It's a mental illness though, and society doing normal things that just happen to trigger it aren't responsible for it. The only "fix" for it is to get them a doctor that can treat the mental problem."
Society is doing a formerly abnormal thing which contributes to her problem, and it's called coddling. If no one had time for her bullshit she would give it up soon enough, because she wou
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They shoudl give her (Score:2)
Some ionizing radiation generators to fight back all that nonionizing radiation that is hurting her.
Ether that or some anti EM drugs (xanax ought to do the trick).
Its called 5G because G is for Granny (Score:2)
And 5G is five times as much Granny frying rays. Hmm....what smells like soup?
Hate to tell you hon ... (Score:2)
make her weak, short of breath, and give her pins-and-needle feelings in her face
...that's the 70-years-old.
Seriously, this calls for a double-blind test.
She spends much of her time in a remote Spanish vacation home
I wonder if the NHS is picking up the tab for this. Perhaps she needs to move to our National Radio Quiet Zone [wikipedia.org].
I think I know a risk factor (Score:2)
I wonder how self-involved you have to be to become susceptible to a condition like this? I'm guessing self-involvement is more correlated with the symptoms than EMF is.
I have the same suspicion about many other disorders and conditions we are all supposed to accommodate.
America is looking at you funny... (Score:2)
We've got much higher EMF rates here than there... they have a number of channels in the teens on SkyTV, while DirecTV and Dish redundantly have hundreds of channels. We also have more than 5 FM stations in most places. XM and Sirius redundantly transmit mostly the same programs, while WorldSpace barely reaches the UK.
Basically, 2.4 and 5.8 sound scary because they're close to the magic frequency of the microwave... but there's really plenty of separation from that in FCC rules Part 15
Sounds like somebody l
Gofundme. (Score:2)
So there's no anti-5G sleeping bags on the market? (Score:2)
For protection against .... (Score:2)
... Werewolves, perhaps:
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... Werewolves, perhaps:
No, werewolves are real, I am one.
Radio Quiet Area (Score:2)
Perhaps she should move to West Virginia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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That ... seems dumb. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to move the telescope to a reasonable area of the country, where no one wants to live anyway, like South Dakota?
Victim of Nocebo (Score:5, Insightful)
This whole EM sensitivity thing has been rather thoroughly tested with double blind tests, and there's absolutely no results even indicating that it's possible, not even from a whole crowd of "EM Sensitives" that were tested.
Their problems are in their heads, not in the EM spectrum.
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Her symptoms are that she feels weak, short of breath, and has pins-and-needle feelings in her face.
Sounds a lot like the symptoms of OLD AGE in this 70 YEAR OLD lady.
Just a tale of some castaways (Score:2)
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I think I saw that episode 27 times as a child.
Kids these days don't really understand what the internet is saving them from.
Canary in a Coalmine (Score:2)
Some people are more sensitive to certain things, e.g. peanuts. Like, so sensitive it kills them. It is possible that similar sensitivities exist in regards to other things, like EMR.
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0.1mm wavelength is 3THz. Maybe it's time to shut down the computer and stick to whatever your specialty is?
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0.1mm wavelength is 3THz. Maybe it's time to shut down the computer and stick to whatever your specialty is?
He said milliLiter, not milliMeter. Come back when you can convert liters to hertz.
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Some animals are able to fly, therefore it follows that anyone who jumps and down will eventually be able to fly as well.
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Some people are more sensitive to certain things, e.g. peanuts. Like, so sensitive it kills them. It is possible that similar sensitivities exist in regards to other things, like EMR.
Low level EMR is not the same as a peanut allergy -- some people claim to be sensitive to the auras of dead people, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Re: Canary in a Coalmine (Score:2)
Isn't it interesting how almost every person posting here is _absolutely certain_ that wifi exposure is _completely harmless_? Yet we won't really know for several decades.
Theoretical medicine is often wrong. It imagines our understanding of pathology to be far greater than it really is. Empirical medicine is always superior, but tends not to become even aware of a problem until there is a already sizeable casualty count.
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Uhm, IANAD but I was involved in teaching my cousin who was claiming "peanut allergy" is that throat tightening happens when you eat peanuts and peanut butter... but it's something we're all supposed to do at age 2... he didn't. So, after giving him a bunch of peanut butter with something else products, he eventually learned how to open his throat and eventually loved the products of Planters.
Kieth Olbermann seems to be the only one who doesn't like wheat... he even was caught interfering with my local groc
Tell her... (Score:2)
...and tell non-coeliac people... (Score:2)
500 bucks (Score:2)
sounds pretty cheap for peace of mind I suppose?
Suffering from extreme migraines and breathing problems, Gladwell was diagnosed with electromagnetic sensitivity four years ago.
I'm curious to hear the qualifications of the "doctor" who diagnosed her.
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You can't argue with someone who can read goat entrails.
He proposed electroshock therapy first (Score:2)
but the national health insurance only covers aluminium hat folding therapy.
What about satellite, radio and TV transmitters? (Score:2)
But yeah, people don't (want to) understand the difference between ionising and non ionising radiation.
Fun with Acronyms (Score:3)
Suggestion (Score:2)
That's only because earth is flat? (Score:3)
If the earth was any other shape than flat, the EM would not hit her as they go in straight lines but since the earth is flat, well yes, she's got a problem.
There is this Thing Humans Called the Sun (Score:2)
She does not understand that living next to a "Star" on a Planet will give her way more EMF and EMR than all the WiFi or any other man made devices put together.
Better Call Saul (Score:2)
Reminds me of Saul's brother who had the same nutter emf fears.
Someone should slip a cell phone into the thing and watch the hilarity occur. See how long it takes for her to realize she's an idiot.
Usual "gotta be something I don't like" disease (Score:2)
I don't question her condition. I do actually believe her that she has all those symptoms.
What I question is the source.
The culprit has to be something that she doesn't use or want. Because heaven forbid it is caused by something she is fond of and would have to do without. So let's blame it on something else and make everyone's life miserable, that way she's not the only one suffering, because doing without something she actually wants to have and actually improve her situation is completely out of the que
Diagnosed herself.... (Score:2)
Lady, I found your problem...
I vote we do a double blind study in an RF shielded box. I know where one is we can likely use... I'll build a plastic box and put a WiFi router inside with a set of wires running outside to a computer that is programed to randomly turn on and off the router and record the cycle times. We will also put a small LED light that the computer also turns on and off randomly, and unrelated to the WiFi signal. Then, we will conduct a study every few min that measures if she is havin
Electrosensitivity is as scientifically establishe (Score:2)
Electrosensitivity is as scientifically established as homeopathy. So if you have globuli in your home - turn off your Internet access NOW!
Simple solution ... (Score:2)
Subject her to a double-blind test, and if the results are scientifically conclusive (i.e., more than statistically relevant positive hits), we can talk about doing something against EMF ... until than, stick to your EMF sleeping bag, or move to some EMF quiet zone [emf-experts.com] ...
No, I don't really hope she dies (Score:3, Funny)
Darwin and I fear that she wont.
Bully (Score:3)
then again... (Score:3)
There also haven't been good studies yet on the long term problems wifi and mobile transmitters have on the body. Long ago they also believed living under powerlines wasn't a problem, now we know better..
Biggest problem is, what if these transmitters are actually hurtfull to our body, our society relies so much on it now, that it's probably reasonable to think that orginizations will try to hide it and take the illnesses related to the problem for granted and try to find a cure without having to give up the wireless transmissions..
Logo check (Score:2)
Uhm, the Google+ logo is out of date...
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Double blind tests have been done. In general, they indicate that this is in fact idiopathic. I'm willing to accept that such a test should be done with individuals claiming such maladies rather than relying on statistical studies.
many diseases will display bizzare, random symptoms that are hard to trace and could be many things and the tests for them may not be immediately obvious
Right. But at least WiFi sensitivity can be eliminated and a search for some other condition can commence.
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