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."

Comments

It's Times Like These ...

[eldavojohn]

... I wish downloading an artists album without paying actually did do the artist physical/economic harm. Here's to hoping that later in life he suffers from an actual ailment while everyone ignores him.

Re:It's Times Like These ...

[Mashiki]

He already has it. It's called Asshole disease. In rare cases, it cause a loss in popularity, being socially ostracized, and attempts to win back old friends as society turns their back on you for being a douchebag.

Oh, very fning funny

[geekoid]

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.

But I have a real allergy

[Anonymusing]

I'm allergic to PR stunts. You have no idea how miserable they make life. I am dizzy all the time, and can't stop sneezing. And the rashes. And the boils. I may be going blind, as well.

By the way, I have a new album coming out, called "Craposensitive".

Re:But I have a real allergy

[BorgCopyeditor]

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.

Should be classified as fraud

[syousef]

Misleading and deceiving people for notoriety and financial gain. How the fuck is this not fraud?

I'm allergic to posting on /.

[Hawthorne01]

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh, It burns!!!!!!!!! (Buy my new album) Arrrrrrghhhhh, AgonyAgonyAgony!!!!!!!

On the contrary

[Eevee]

He's made the world a better place. Now anybody who claims to be suffering from this fake malady can be told to shut up with "Oh, that's a fake disease from an old PR stunt."

You have to remember, people were already claiming to suffer from it; it's already in the 'common knowledge' bin. He's brought nothing new to the table as far as claims go.

Amazing...

[Foobar of Borg]

It was reported by The Sun, The Telegraph, and Fox News. I'm surprised those bastions of journalistic integrity and careful, measured reporting didn't check their facts better before releasing these reports.

Tried before with success..

[Technician]

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.

Re:Tried before with success..

[ivan_w]

Awww.. come on !

The dihydrogen monoxide/hydric acid/hydrane stunt was just *brilliant* !

--Ivan

Re:would suck if someone somewhere was actually

[sexconker]

Except they don't suffer from "this" affliction.
If they can't pass a double blind test, then the affliction doesn't exist.

I'm going to download his album 10 times...

[jolyonr]

to hurt him even more!