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Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness
drewmoney notes a BBC article on a major UK study of whether cell towers (or "mobile phone masts" as they are called in the UK) cause illness. The study concluded strongly that symptoms of illness caused by mobile phone masts are all in the mind. People claiming sensitivity to radio emissions showed more symptoms in trials, according to the article, whether signals were being emitted or not. Quoting: "Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials. However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering 'real symptoms.' Campaign group Mast Sanity said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness."
I could have saved them a buncha money and reached the same conclusions.
A much better study would have been to figure out not why symptoms were clustered around cell towers (that's obvious, if you can see the damn things it triggers the symptoms) but why the people who have the symptoms are clustered in the UK.
Inbreeding? Lack of science education? Most likely it's the crappy public health system that can't get to these people in time to head off the descent into delusion, which they then spread to their neighbors in a nice little insular social feedback system otherwise known as mass hysteria.