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English DJ Claims Wi-Fi Allergy
path0$ writes "British Ex-DJ Steve Miller claims that his Wi-Fi allergy is making his life one big misery
, forcing him to live in an iron-clad home far from any neighbors. According to the article, more and more people are suffering from an allergy like his. The only positive side to this is that at least Miller didn't think of suing anybody yet, like these people did,
who claim to suffer from the same condition and were mentioned in a Slashdot article in 2008."
And I got a nasty rash just reading the summary.
Some people call him the space cowboy
Some people call him the gangster of love
Some people call him Maurice
Because he has to stay in a Faraday cage to block out the wi-fi signals he's allergic to...
Most people with decent hearing find TV aisles uncomfortable - it's either too many random TVs putting out the same audio minutely out of synch, or the high-pitched squeal that comes from any CRT being multiplied by a couple dozen. The EMF signals are hardly the most irritating thing that a TV can put out.
O RLY? I guess you haven't sat through an episode of 'Fringe' then?
But this is obviously due to you being ever so slightly mental.
jh
Wi-Fi also causes me pain. Every time I jack up the power output of a laptop or my PC at home the wireless starts to give me a headache, it also bothers my wife, child and brother-in-law.
We also ended up taking the microwave out of the house because every time my wife would use it while pregnant the baby would go crazy and start lashing around in the womb. Shes 5 months old and still cant use it, her brother is the same it gives him an instant migraine if hes near a microwave in use.
But once they believe they are safe from EM radiation, their symptoms abate.
Whoa, that's weird. I believe I'm safe from EM radiation too, and I've never had any EM allergy-related symptoms. Coincidence? I think not!
You know what this means? The allergy is real, but believing it doesn't affect you is a cure! It makes sense, too -- allergies are an auto-immune response of the body, which can conceivably be affected by the central nervous system, if not consciously then subconsciously. People can learn to control their heart rates or body temperatures, maybe we unknowingly control our immune systems to respond or not respond to things it shouldn't. Thus the luddites fear of technology creates the very allergy that makes them fear technology. A vicious cycle!
But hopefully we can make use of this, and I can believe my way of of this annoying mold allergy -- THAT I DON'T HAVE BECAUSE I'M SAFE FROM MOLD. I KNOW I'M SAFE I KNOW I'M SAFE.
The enemies of Democracy are
He needs one of these. So he can always tell when he's in danger.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Why do we report bizarre claims to Slashdot without requiring the scientific method to be applied.
If I claim to be psychic and to be able to use ESP to read emails out of thin air, does qualify for the front page of Slashdot?
If you have to ask... you must be new round here.. :-)
"Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers." - Hobbes
1010010101010100... oh ones!
pytos fixed.
Atheist: Buddhist in a Prius
He should try to promote himself a different way than this
Yeah seriously; he should just start a band and try promoting himself under his own name. Call it the Steve Mill... umm, never mind.
Crazy people are everywhere. Stop giving them attention.
This attitude is unhelpful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
...we finally have an instance where a tin-foil helmet will actually be beneficial!
"I'm an old-fashioned type of guy. I worship the Sun and Moon as gods. And fear them."
Don't mock people with LED allergies!
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
I am slighty allergic to WiFi but only to packets that have their evil bit set.
Surely we all know the truth about wifi?! Wifi eats babies!!
Here:
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/2007/05/27/the-truth-about-wireless-devices/
Quite right. People who claim to be "allergic" to modern technology invariably fail to prove it in properly designed double-blind scientific tests.
Maybe they're also allergic to double-blind studies...
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
If I claim to be psychic and to be able to use ESP to read emails out of thin air, does qualify for the front page of Slashdot?
You are the psychic, you tell us.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Is it a wireless mouse? Because that would be like throwing kryptonite at Superman.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Quite right. People who claim to be "allergic" to modern technology invariably fail to prove it in properly designed double-blind scientific tests.
How do you propose they do that, by using modern technology? Good God, man! The very test could kill them!
Yeah, I solved that problem by joining a rock band. Now, I don't hear the flyback whistle, or power supplies, or crickets. Both ears ring at different, multiple, freqs. I just learned to ignore it.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
The only electronics in it were, well, the LED to show it was "on"
Maybe they are allergic to LEDs?
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
If he is a DJ and has to take music requests from the general public, well, that could make anyone sick, judging from the charts of what's popular.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
For those who disbelieve that EM waves can have an affect on organic tissue
- disable the "door open" safety feature on your microwave
- insert head
- press start
- remove head when the pain begins
Wi-Fi signals may be similar to bitter tastes. Some people think broccoli tastes bitter; others think it tastes fine. This is natural variation in the tastebuds and it's entirely possible that the ultrashort EM waves are having a similar unpleasant effect on 1% of humans.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"electromagnetic hypersensitivity"
Poor guy. Must suck, particularly since his body radiates EM in several bands.
I've been getting over a serious illness for the past year. One of my co-workers has decided to help by telling me in her opinion it's "all in my head."
This has work absolute wonders. I now grit my teeth and just get on with work when I feel too ill to move and I don't whine about feeling like crap anymore. The illness in effect is now counter balanced with a healthy dollop of shame.