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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."
My work here is dung.
Now this story will linger as 'common knowledge' for years and rational people will have to cnstantly explain it was a PR stunt.
Well done jackass, you've made the world a worse place.
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It's attitudes like that which keep people reclusive when actually do experience strange things (whether medical, mental, metaphysical -- whatever strange means today).
Some people are attention-whores, for sure. And some of those people make stuff up. The rest of the world, though - they'd probably rather keep their strangeness to themselves, than to be studied like a lab rat.
You're talking about human beings, not creatures which we need to find in order to "be able to study them."
Kid-proof tablet..
Misleading and deceiving people for notoriety and financial gain. How the fuck is this not fraud?
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People do suffer from this affliction. The fact that it's actually a mental problem doesn't actually make it less of an affliction. Mental issues cause real world problems in much the same way as physical ones.
Awww.. come on !
The dihydrogen monoxide/hydric acid/hydrane stunt was just *brilliant* !
--Ivan
Except they don't suffer from "this" affliction.
If they can't pass a double blind test, then the affliction doesn't exist.
He added cement to the idea.
All this stuff, Bigfoot, UFO's, Homeopathy, reiki, only gets stronger when something like this happens. When it is proven to be fake, or shown that there is no evidence, it doesn't get reported in mainstream and when it does it gets put on page 8.
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Check out this link: http://www.aehf.com/articles/em_sensitive.html Double-blind study with repeatable results, showed some subjects were sensitive. Remember, the scientific method means that nothing is ever proven definitively; all we can do is hypothesize, experiment, lather, rinse, repeat.
...except the damage is done. The hippies and new-agers have already latched onto the story as yet more proof that WiFi is harmful and their neuroses are real.
Stunts like this aren't 'harmless'. We should publicly flog him, not ignore him.
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Put them in a room with a black WiFi box and ask them to tell you when it's switched on, preferably with some other "sensitives" as witnesses and making sure there's no cheating by the weasel-faced skeptics.
Having shown them what a real experiment is, give them one to take home so they can try for themselves whenever they have doubts.
After enough dismal failures they should get the message that it's all in their head.
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Let's look at the facts:
Looking at these facts, it's very likely that Wi-fi (microwave radiation) may cause cancer or some sort of damage if human beings are continuously exposed to it for several decades.
Putting your head in a boiling pot of water or in a working oven is dangerous as well. Ergo standing several feet away from it is going to kill you as well... NO.
The microwave kills you because it cooks you. In fact, you will be CURED of any cancer because cooked cancer cells are just as dead as anything else that is cooked.
Guns kill, so carrying a gun gives you cancer because cancer is caused by lead and since guns kill with lead... BAD LOGIC.
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