Comments on: Electro-sensitive, what is that? http://trendsupdates.com/electro-sensitive-what-is-that/ A trip down the trendy lane Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frank Tovey http://trendsupdates.com/electro-sensitive-what-is-that/#comment-99 Frank Tovey Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:37:15 +0000 http://trendsupdates.com/?p=1547#comment-99 I have come across several electro-sensitives in the past ten years, mostly on conferences and lectures when they stood up in the end and told the audience that they "cannot prove it, but the evidence presented in this lecture is wrong", they "can feel the number of mobile phones present". This reminds me of the two studies about mobile phone emissions that had beef forged by Dr. H. Rüdiger of the Vienna University. The guy manipulated the data in such a way that his studies showed a GREATER effect on the DNA than it actually was the case. Of course this alleged effect brought him greater publicity than proving that there was no adverse effect. Although at least some of the electro-sensitives will argue that their disease cannot be proved or classified by scientific methods I suggest to treat their percieved illness as psychosomatic. What the city of Stockholm does is dangerous because they fuel a prospering industry of charlatans and witch doctors with tax money. I just saw a badge in a shop the other day that claimed to reduce mobile phone emissions when glued to the back side of one. How it does that when radiation spreads in all directions remains a mystery to me, but it was rather expensive. BTW, the fact that "specialist" Ulrika Åberg also carries the "disease" is characteristic for the movement, I have not seen an advocate for their beliefs who is unaffected by the "disease". I think that electro-sensitives do need help, we must not ridicule them (although it is tempting at times). If it's fear of our fast and modern times that drives them, sometimes I can not blame them. I have come across several electro-sensitives in the past ten years, mostly on conferences and lectures when they stood up in the end and told the audience that they “cannot prove it, but the evidence presented in this lecture is wrong”, they “can feel the number of mobile phones present”.

This reminds me of the two studies about mobile phone emissions that had beef forged by Dr. H. Rüdiger of the Vienna University. The guy manipulated the data in such a way that his studies showed a GREATER effect on the DNA than it actually was the case. Of course this alleged effect brought him greater publicity than proving that there was no adverse effect.

Although at least some of the electro-sensitives will argue that their disease cannot be proved or classified by scientific methods I suggest to treat their percieved illness as psychosomatic.

What the city of Stockholm does is dangerous because they fuel a prospering industry of charlatans and witch doctors with tax money. I just saw a badge in a shop the other day that claimed to reduce mobile phone emissions when glued to the back side of one. How it does that when radiation spreads in all directions remains a mystery to me, but it was rather expensive.

BTW, the fact that “specialist” Ulrika Åberg also carries the “disease” is characteristic for the movement, I have not seen an advocate for their beliefs who is unaffected by the “disease”.

I think that electro-sensitives do need help, we must not ridicule them (although it is tempting at times). If it’s fear of our fast and modern times that drives them, sometimes I can not blame them.

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