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Wi-Fi Allergy a PR Stunt

ADiamond writes "There is no Wi-Fi allergy. The English DJ claiming a Wi-Fi sensitivity, chronicled earlier, was a PR stunt to promote his new album. It would appear that the stunt was highly successful, appearing in multiple high-profile media outlets like The Sun, The Telegraph, and Fox News. The article at Ars goes on to discuss the evidence, or lack-thereof, of electromagnetic spectrum sensitivity."

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  1. Tried before with success.. by Technician · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ban Dihydrogenmonoxide stunt also got the media messed up in a comical frenzy over bad science.

    This site is still up for your reading pleasure.
    http://www.dhmo.org/

    The environmental impact of the stuff is huge. It's found most everywhere.
    http://www.dhmo.org/environment.html

    For those who don't get the joke the punchline is here;

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
    n 1989, Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman circulated a Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination warning on the UC Santa Cruz Campus via photocopied fliers.[8] The concept originated one afternoon when Kaufman recalled a similar warning about "Hydrogen Hydroxide" that had been published in his mother's hometown paper, the Durand (Michigan) Express, and the three then worked to coin a term that "sounded more dangerous". Lechner typed up the original warning flier on Kaufman's computer, and a trip to the local photocopying center followed that night.

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  2. Trifecta by jafiwam · · Score: 2, Informative

    "appearing in multiple high-profile media outlets like The Sun, The Telegraph, and Fox News."

    Lol, that's the tard-trifecta right there man. I sure hope Bigfoot doesn't get angry about the coverage of him this crap displaced.

    1. Re:Trifecta by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 2, Informative

      Replace the Telegraph with the Daily Mail. That's a bigger retard magnet.

  3. Re:But I have a real allergy by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of the mysterious illnesses of our society, from wifi allergies to "travelling" pain, to fibromyalgia and chronic pain disorder, are all manifestations of dysthemia and depression.

    Source?

    Rectal extraction.

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