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Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court
McGruber writes "Arthur Firstenberg, the Santa Fe, New Mexico man who sued his neighbors, claiming their Wi-Fi made him sick, has lost what might have been his final round in court. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, state District Judge Sarah Singleton ruled that no scientific study has yet proved that electromagnetic stimulus adversely impacts personal health. While he lost the lawsuit, he did score a victory: the neighbors he sued have moved out of Santa Fe."
“no scientific study has yet proved that electromagnetic stimulus adversely impacts personal health” Are we to assume that it is ok, in Mexico, to sunbath without sunscreen? Are X-rays and gamma rays also harmless there?
Hmmmmmm, X-Rays are EM waves. Radio is an EM wave. X-Rays are carried by photons. Why look, Radio produces photons (though their incredibly low energy making it hard to see them individually above the background noise in the universe.) Therefore yes, X-Ray and Radio wave precisely the same phenomena, with the only difference being their wave length. The difference in their effects on physical matter is a function of their energy. X-Rays are highly energetic. Radio waves not so much.
You can warm a glass of water to 100 degrees and you now have bath water, you can also heat it to 1000 degrees and now you have live steam. Both made of identical water molecules, the same in every way save one. The impact that water has on your hand though will be impressively different, because one has a tremendously greater amount of kinetic energy to impart on the proteins in your flesh. EM is EM is EM, and what changes is the energy they to impart on you. The hard part is figuring out and comparing effects under different conditions. By the way, you Warfarin and Table Salt analogy is precisely valid here. Normally, you'd be absolutely correct, however there is a small population with a gene mutation that effects the way they metabolize salt. It results in making their mucous so thick that they have a hard time breathing. We can this condition Cystic Fibrosis. So these people are canaries in the mine for Salt contamination. There is almost certainly something like this for certain EM frequencies, people who are super sensitive. We need to show them compassion, their suffering is real, and gawd knows the average person now lives in a sea of artificial EM radiation. We just need to make certain that we balance that compassion with sanity regarding the benefit of all those waves are for the general populace.